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- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
formula for estimating the lifetime value of each piece of content. As the business models of print and broadcast media declined, Demand had figured out how to leverage digital and social media tools to bring down the costs of creating content and to find an audience.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
then collected data from 12 other multiunit enterprises. In this article, they discuss the unique problems that such corporations face, describe how managers tackle those challenges, and offer lessons that will help all types of organizations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent educational outcomes. Brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
warned. "Business cannot sit this one out" and ignore reality, he said. Yet the nature of any given industry today presents business with unique challenges. One session of the conference focused specifically on supply chains, led by Stacey Childress, Social... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
several years ago to connect the back end of its 50,000 stores with company headquarters. But it soon dawned on executives that 90 percent of Starbucks customers use the Web, and many are high-end business travelers. Offering them Web... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
provide investors with confidence in what they hear from investment banks. The prospectus presents everything legally. It is the document that sets forth the terms of the sale of shares to the investor. It takes precedence over any verbal representations made by the... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
couples and individuals from a variety of backgrounds, ages, and sexual orientations to build families. This case examines Circle Surrogacy (CS), one of the premier surrogacy agencies in the world, as its president and founder, John Weltman, was about to share an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
Twitter of people who are executives or CEOs. This will help us understand how much they humblebrag. We're also going to look at people who recently got promoted to a new job with more power, and see if there's a change in their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
says. "When you make yourself vulnerable, people like you more." Buell hopes the research findings get company executives thinking about finding ways to engage more openly with consumers in general as a potential way of piquing... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
executives that investors don't care about nonfinancial performance. The result for South Africa, classified as Sustainable Companies, is also notable since it is the first country to mandate integrated reporting starting this year. It... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Firms should begin to do the same and help people fulfill their social needs online. To continue the earlier analogy, "You should come to the table and say, 'Here is a product that I have designed for you that is going to make you all better friends.' To View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
(coauthored with Joanna Radin), Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100, has just been released. The book collects views on the work and challenges of the agency from FDA officials past and present, as well as from executives... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society in general. After all, if we can... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
stalled. Eager to succeed in his new role in Paris, Jianguo has lots of fresh ideas, but they seem to be falling on deaf ears. Members of the executive team, for their part, find Jianguo to be largely indifferent to their input. Can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these accomplishments. This understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne