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- 18 Apr 2013
- News
Everyday Heroes Inspire Stunned Nation
- 2013
- Tool
Harvard Business Review's Go to Market Tools: Market Sizing
By: Jill Avery and Thomas Steenburgh
Market size matters. On the hook to launch your division's next great product or service? Need to convince higher ups that your product will fit that gaping revenue hole—and is worth the team's scarce marketing and product development resources? You need hard data to... View Details
Avery, Jill, and Thomas Steenburgh. Harvard Business Review's Go to Market Tools: Market Sizing. Tool. Boston, MA, USA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Electronic.
- February 2004
- Case
Bradman and Tendulkar, LLC
By: Ananth Raman and Vishal Gaur
An investment firm is trying to project inventory turns for Radio Shack, a chain of consumer electronics stores. The investment firm has access to public financial data but not to internal operational metrics. It needs to project inventory turns because inventory... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole Foods, Starbucks, and the social... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Jan 2014
- News
What's Wrong With GDP?
- 2018
- Report
The Water of Systems Change
By: Mark R. Kramer, John Kania and Peter Senge
Foundations involved in systems change can increase their odds for success by focusing on the least explicit but most powerful conditions for change, while also turning the lens on themselves.
The Water of Systems Change aims to clarify what it means to shift... View Details
Kramer, Mark R., John Kania, and Peter Senge. "The Water of Systems Change." Report, FSG, May 2018.
- 07 Sep 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Faber-Castell Doubles Down on the Pencil
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
this literature may not seem obviously related to the asset location literature, they turn out to be tightly linked. Fisher Black and Irwin Tepper established that a firm with access to tax-deferred accumulation in a defined benefit... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Jan 2020
- Video
How to Find and Create Your Own Edge
- May 14 2014
- Testimonial
Expanding Skills, Expanding Value
- Profile
Jake Flomenberg
long-term strategy. The broad skill set I developed at HBS will make it easier for me to take on new roles and hopefully start my own company one day. The HBS network is unparalleled - there is always someone to turn to for advice on the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 14 Feb 2020
- News
Love, But No Lies, in the Workplace
- October 1990 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Changing the Culture at British Airways
By: John P. Kotter
In just 10 years, 1980-1990, British Airways turned around both its declining image and financial situation. Focusing on the paramount importance of customer service, British Airways went from "bloody awful" to "bloody awesome." Experiencing a financial crisis in 1981... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Customer Relationship Management; Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Air Transportation Industry; United Kingdom
Kotter, John P. "Changing the Culture at British Airways." Harvard Business School Case 491-009, October 1990. (Revised September 1993.)
- November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
- Supplement
Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (B)
By: Paul W. Marshall and Andrew Goldin
Explores the results of Jody Leleck's efforts to turn around underperforming Broad Acres Middle School. View Details
Marshall, Paul W., and Andrew Goldin. "Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 810-043, November 2009. (Revised June 2012.)
- 16 May 2022
- Video
Rafaella Mazza (MBA 2023)
- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Charles Foster - Making A Difference
- March 2009 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire?
By: Juan Alcacer, David J. Collis and Mary Furey
Soon after Robert Iger took over as CEO of the Walt Disney Company in late 2005, he turned his attention toward Pixar, the animation studio with which Disney had worked since 1991 and was responsible for producing hits such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Disney's own... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Contracts; Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Alcacer, Juan, David J. Collis, and Mary Furey. "The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire?" Harvard Business School Case 709-462, March 2009. (Revised November 2021.)
- 20 Mar 2012
- News
Healthy Competition can Save Lives through Shared Value
- Oct 2012
- Book
Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
In many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. View Details