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- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
When the customer says "jump," they ask "how high?" They offer additional product features and services to their customers, but fail to receive prices that cover the costs for these... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
buy.” 4. Business leaders strive for inclusivity and gender equality Some of the business leaders featured in the book were among the first generation of women to break through considerable barriers in their professions. One method used... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
maternal mortality in South Asia. Business Track, 2014 Alfred Marcela Sapone Jess Beck Saurabh Mahajan Business Track Winner Service layer on the sharing economy. Booya Fitness Prita Kumar Business Track Runner-Up On-demand video platform View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
highly integrated. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system rather than copy just one or two discrete product View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Design Thinking and Innovation LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring complimentary lessons... View Details
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
consumers make complementary choices in purchase decisions (e.g., chips and salsa), product inter-operabilities (smartphones and networks), and dynamic decisions (current exercise and future healthcare consumption). Multiple consumers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
how one CEO we’ve talked with builds in multiple perspectives to his decision-making. At his industrial products company, he has established bi-weekly meetings with his senior team focused on two questions: What do we know now that we... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Alternative Investments LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring complimentary lessons on AI... View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Productivity Implementing Strategy Featured Exercises Create a customer journey map to discover complementary products and services Establish an employee journey map to find... View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
mission, policies, and major programs of nonprofit organizations. Featured MBA Courses Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change This course is tailored for individuals aiming to pioneer and lead positive and lasting change within... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
Wahlen of MIT Sloan—examine whether such “wisdom of the crowd” can beat the odds in predicting a blockbuster at a higher rate than the gut of an individual producer. "While some companies have used crowdsourcing as a way to make decisions on View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006
individual rep's results, and sales training has focused on product features and cost-performance advantages, not on the business issues facing customers. Now salespeople need to understand, promote, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
cultural agents. Slave traders and New York financiers, Boston merchants, and Pittsburgh industrialists feature prominently in many of these accounts. These accounts not only bring diverse actors into the narrative, they do so to quite... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
Most companies rely on artificial intelligence-based algorithms to make a wide variety of business decisions—from pinpointing the products customers prefer to determining which resumes should go to hiring managers. The problem for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. They find that deposit productivity is responsible for two thirds of the value of the median bank and most variation in value across banks. Variation... View Details
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Courses - Private Capital Project
collaboration with industry entities. The course includes a wide range of projects and features lectures by private equity professionals, serving as a platform for industry relationship building and practical knowledge acquisition. Real... View Details
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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care
products and pricing on the public health insurance exchanges, and co-payment coupons for prescription drugs. Featured Research 15 Nov 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By:... View Details