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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
organization strategy to enable the different functions to work together to bring products to market more quickly. As Ludwig grappled with a way to jumpstart change at DIS, he began to suspect that people... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
loans. What’s more, holding on to that buffer means that those firms may not be growing as quickly as they could, says Olivia Kim, a Harvard Business School assistant... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
strongly lean toward those. Question: How important is advertising for big companies? Cohen: Advertising is a lifeblood for corporations, even though how they’re doing it changes over time. They used to use billboards and newspapers; now,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute,... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
that Gary has been kind enough to help the School in a number of ways in launching a Global Leadership Initiative. Our work on that project has led us to conclude that there are not many short executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"?... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
songs for free by promoting them on the radio and on MTV. If consumers liked the samples, they purchased a dozen songs at a price of $15. We now have gone from one extreme to the other. While inflexible... View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
toxic many of the cleaning products she was using were to her health and to the environment. So, when she heard about Vida Verde, a worker cooperative organized by Brazilian women immigrants, which sells housecleaning View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
is happening is business as usual. Microsoft is facing a race with time and the markets to re-deploy monopoly profits from a waning desktop opportunity in order to become more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
differences in the cost components are not as sharply different as we would have assumed. Therefore it is important to do a precise analysis adapted to each specific case. The... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
firm that provides capital advisory services to mid-sized, privately-held companies. Constantini cited his development of a company, Boston Financial, as one of his most... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
organizations upside down, changing forever what we have thought of as the role of management, if not leadership. But will it happen, given what the Army has found? What about the unwillingness of frontliners to employ their information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
business leaders, moderated by HBS professor Myra Hart, at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. Robin Chase said that being a woman did not hinder her ability to start Zipcar, a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
chairman at AT&T as it was being broken up. "In the regulated days, Bell system employees—myself included—genuinely believed they were doing the best they could and acting in the best interests of customers," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
a piece of intellectual property that was designed purposely to be co-opted by others wishing to incorporate it into their advertising. Organizations such as Apple, Gap, and American Express have promoted... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
inventory without the need to step foot in a bookstore; and then Amazon launched the Kindle e-book service in 2007, challenging the very idea of a physical book. “Not only had... View Details