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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
we now see an industry back on its heels, massively disrupted by an external force so unprecedented it is almost unfathomable. The severity of this business interruption will continue to endure and be further complicated by the mandate of... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
complicated business issues into light and how we think about decision-making as we develop into business leaders. Chad: One of the things that we have learned over the years is just how much financial barriers can play a role in who has... View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
more efficient, the use of such a lingua franca can add layers of complication and delay. And instead of fostering collaboration, it can create cultural fissures between employees. “It's volcanic, waiting for something to ignite it, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Research Summary
Rethinking Brand Contamination: How Consumers Maintain Distinction When Symbolic Boundaries Are Breached"
If consumers view their brands as extensions of themselves, what happens when undesirable consumers adopt these same brands? I address this question by examining an issue that is of great concern to managers of high-status brands: the rampant spread... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
complicated them: Cost-cutting and remote work mean that both the acquisition and bonding drives are harder to meet via traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
profitable customers) to extract maximum scale economies in procurement, manufacturing, and distribution. 4. If you aren't the low cost producer, complicate your pricing structures so customers can't easily make side-by-side comparisons,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
structures change over time," Shore says. "To complicate matters, in longer-term projects you're going to be iterating between information gathering and solution generating. So the organizational structure needs to switch back... View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
such as over how much information the boss wants (and you want to give) and how involved the boss wants to be (and you want him or her to be) in the details of what you are doing. Rather than allowing misunderstandings to complicate your... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
your workforce to tap into their intrinsic motivation rather than coming up with complicated schemes for paying them based on certain performance measures,” Pany says. “People are social creatures. Support them so that people can be who... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
global beauty powerhouse over the last two decades; and Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who created an exquisite, and now global, brand. A further complication in reaching a definitive answer to whether there are gender advantages... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
through me and my data science team,’” Datar says. “It was a bold decision because it was much costlier and more complicated to design flexible architecture that managers could easily interact with.” Take a calculated approach to using... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
through. As companies and work groups become more diverse, these differences will appear more often. Finally, people may not comply because they're confused. The growing complexity of the workplace and more fluid organizational structures with multiple bosses and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
constraints, with the impact of that decision affecting everything from just their immediate team to billions of dollars of revenue globally. The beauty of the case method is that it breaks down the most complicated problems to small... View Details
- TeachingInterests
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
By: David E. Bell
Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
increasingly important. In some ways it seems obvious, but verification requirements can be enormously complicated to implement and it can dramatically increase the cost of adoption. Q: How do self-regulation programs affect managers as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
company to company, industry to industry, and between the public and private sectors, Nicholas says. “These are enormously complicated issues we’re dealing with,” he says. And, he is careful to note, his research isn’t claiming that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
people and groups that complicate the process of sustaining healthy working relationships. Any organization has design issues posed by the innate nature of its employees and also by the same innate nature of its customers, suppliers,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria