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  • 10 Nov 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

the biggest challenges for organizations are to have the necessary competencies and resources to act upon inputs." Sowmia Gopinathan echoed this comment: " (the) downside is only where expectations of the customers are made high View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

a seven-point scale, how likely they would be to behave unethically in each instance. Finally, the respondents reported how much creativity was required in their respective jobs, with three managers in the executive office rating the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

the exhibit and its themes. Taking a biographical approach, the exhibit profiles women entrepreneurs beginning with Eliza Lucas Pinckney, manager of a successful indigo enterprise in the mid-eighteenth century, and concludes with... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

slightly different approach to research in this area by deciding that entrepreneurship should not be what we study, but rather, the entrepreneurial firm should be where we study. Q: What have been the main findings of the inquiry that has... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

    Reza R. Satchu

    Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of... View Details

    • 22 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

    state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • November 2023
    • Case

    Swanson Health: Becoming a Super Seller

    By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Paige Boehmcke
    Founded in 1969, Swanson Health sold vitamins, supplements, natural health products, and organic foods. Over the years, the company had successfully navigated multiple industry transitions as it expanded from a print catalog to sell products on its own... View Details
    Keywords: Sales; Transition; Growth Management; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and Paige Boehmcke. "Swanson Health: Becoming a Super Seller." Harvard Business School Case 824-093, November 2023.
    • 01 May 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

    job? A: The key lesson to boards is that, for compensation and incentive purposes, when management has high career concerns, sometimes less information is better. And, recent evidence suggests that high career concerns in View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
    • 18 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

    conflict with the government's long-standing policy of transferring some assets from Chinese to Malays. This policy arose because of a perception that the race riots of 1969 were caused by the tension between the Chinese haves and the... View Details
    Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
    • August 1992 (Revised December 1994)
    • Case

    Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or ...?

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Working Conditions; Law; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Crime and Corruption; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender
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    Paine, Lynn S. "Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or ...?" Harvard Business School Case 393-033, August 1992. (Revised December 1994.)
    • 19 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Radical Design, Radical Results

    decades, but we know almost nothing about how companies manage design innovation," Verganti says. For their study, Verganti and Dell'Era focused on the Italian furniture industry, using a database (Webmobili.com) to classify 2,000... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
    • 07 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Biotech

    heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
    • 30 Oct 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

    hours of operation, merchandising displays, and pricing. By contrast, the span of control for managers at corporate headquarters who oversee merchandising and other core operations is set at... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • 19 Aug 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

    Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit. "It's striking how much work has gone into examining this question—including by many truly... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 28 Feb 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

    work in market design are interested in how the rules by which markets are organized influence the behavior of participants. So, when I noticed, back in the early days of eBay, that a lot of auctions received bids right near the end of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
    • 01 Aug 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

    management of all resources that surround that particular scale of operation." Questions raised by Salli's and other of the comments include the following: Can leaders sense successfully when an entity... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services
    • 12 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    What Great American Leaders Teach Us

    business encyclopedias, and other sources. In many cases, these individuals were cited for the advances that they made in American business—opening new markets, creating new industries, instituting modern management practices, or... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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