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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
important purchases and the consumption dilemmas that lead friends to seek my advice, they rarely deal with buying products such as toothpaste, breakfast cereal, or washing machines. I am not arguing that this section of the View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
management in the new economy The first is how you can gain competitive advantage from the supply chain. We not only look at some best-practice examples, but also examine the role of the general manager in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
rational reason to do it from a scale standpoint, or from a this-will-work standpoint. If the CEO doesn't put in that effort then disruptive ventures don't stand a chance from a growth structure perspective." OnStar also stayed alive... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
And, they should revisit their acquisition strategies. Some firms are acquired for the sake of scale, but the scale argument did not persuade Pisano. Biotech companies should also think about their internal... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
challenges, at times through public-private partnerships, can represent a "great investing opportunity" for companies like GE, he said. "When you're a big company, you have to play in big places," he said. "We can bring the View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of the world economy into recession. In the recent case "Kroll... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
Globalization hasn't made manufacturing clusters obsolete, but the geographically concentrated pockets of industry have to be smart to ensure their survival, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Gary P. Pisano, the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Business and the Environment
States, climate change is becoming a priority. Sustainability will drive business in the next 25 years. The transition to a low-carbon economy will bring about significant investment opportunities. It is a perfect storm: climate change,... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
chapters how entrepreneurs both inside and outside of government can tackle problems by viewing them as opportunities, trying new ideas, scaling them up, and improving public life. “I’m not saying we should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
and Mario Morino, cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), based in Washington, D.C. Panelists agreed that the goal for philanthropy should be to help an organization scale to the point... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
are fully aware of their significant influence on capital markets, as well as their responsibilities to their investors and to capital markets—and to the US economy more generally,” says Viceira. “After all,... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
who'd worked their way up through the trenches, breadwinners. Since the rejiggering of the American economy beginning in the early 1980s, the man-of-action hero is back and more than ever he is found in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
today? A: Well, one of the benefits, if you want to call it that, of a downturn in the economy is that people start challenging the conventional way View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
engineering and designing for 'buildability.'" Down The Road While U.S automakers retrench, Toyota is aggressively building American factories and, with other foreign automakers, adding billions of dollars to the U.S. View Details