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22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

making it up as you go along when you're working in an early stage company. The focus is on building the product and trying to get customers, and a lot of times the HR aspects of the company get set aside. I also talk about in startups... 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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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

introduced the Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95, and Land Film, Type 40, to the public. Edwin Land stood at a precipice, wondering whether the significant investment and research in his new product would pay off. Land had wisely kept his... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

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 featuring workouts created by the industry's best... View Details

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

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

12 Sep 2022
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When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

colleagues studied how experts judged contest entries and found that the greater an evaluator’s expertise, the more likely they were to nix less feasible proposals in favor of safer bets. “Who we select to do our evaluations and to pick these ideas has important... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

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Aldrich Hall | About

and testing of a full-size classroom prototype on land behind Baker Library—the architectural firm Perry, Shaw, Hepburn & Dean developed a revolutionary horseshoe-shaped classroom layout specifically designed to facilitate case-method teaching. View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Choosing Between RE Investment Types Featured Exercises Identify phases of the real estate market Prepare for a real estate negotiation Conduct valuation analysis Classify real estate products based on their... View Details

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

27 May 2014
First Look

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

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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

05 Dec 2006
First Look

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

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Prior to Generate, Jacobs cofounded the global clean technologies practice at McKinsey & Company, advising companies, institutional investors, NGOs, and governments around the world on the economic imperatives of resource productivity and... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

impact. Highlights The Value Stick Value Creation at Best Buy Discerning Complements from Substitutes Show Hide Details Modules Creating Value for Customers Adding Value Through Complements Competing with Network Effects Creating Value for Talent Mastering View Details

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

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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

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

at the company. He then turned his attention to the e-commerce platform the firm launched in 2018 to sell products directly to retail consumers. Now, as the case “Digital Transformation at Tata Steel” explains, Narendran had to decide... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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