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- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native of View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
how elevated footbridges connect competing resorts in Las Vegas today, a true metaverse could allow users to hop between different and even competing worlds, rather than confining them to separate closed-off experiences. While new... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
overall corporate strategy. Fu Ji has enjoyed phenomenal growth as the corporate catering market in China develops. But that growth in the business also entails a transition from a single restaurant to a restaurant chain, then to a catering business. Is Fu Ji well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
and jerk of your carry-on up to the overhead. An inelegant flop into the middle seat completes the journey—until the passenger in front shoves her seat back, removing your kneecaps. But new research shows that—in addition to these... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Campbell's Recipe for Advancing School Nutrition
By: Hise O. Gibson, F. Christopher Eaglin and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later expanded to Charlotte, NC, and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
before. And anarchy has always yielded back to law and order. In this excerpt from her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, Spar looks to history to put the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
fascinated by the old British style of operation. And advertising was seen as a glamorous thing” Kapur discusses his years as a developing ad man and eventual executive chairman of O&M India in a new interview with Sunil Gupta, the... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
looking for new ways to solve it" and suggested that the phenomenon applies to organizations as well as individuals. In Steve Sheinkopf's opinion, "Denial is only part of the problem; not understanding your capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
Negotiation Table In their presentation, Hannah Riley Bowles (HBS DBA'01) of the Harvard Kennedy School and Laura Kray of UC Berkeley spoke about a "negotiation scorecard"—a high-level view of the current state of negotiation... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future outcomes in our minds,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
this same path again? GM does not believe that these new changes will repeat the 1980s debacle. Rather, their executives see the Internet as the way of the future. The 1999 annual report states that the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
parking. With the right combination of price, speed, and convenience, PRT could beat the private automobile. There are already routes that are faster by bicycle than by car, particularly when you consider parking. PRT can widen the gap. In the very densest cities—parts... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
general dislike of the case method (in addition) engineers find it very difficult to accept that there is not one single solution. Further, with today’s short attention span, having longer dialogues with students on their stand doesn’t work because the others have... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
Only about 10 percent of retailers use NFC readers, and at least one retailer—Best Buy—stopped using them because they were too expensive. Officials with both Best Buy and Walmart have said the retailers have no plans, at least right now, of accepting the View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
Consumers in the United States are so increasingly into fresh, local, and carbon neutral that if someone figured out how to grow a tomato that could walk itself to the grocery store, they'd be a millionaire. So why is Mutti S.p.a., a... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
economy continues to make it easier for users to share new ideas with companies, society, and each other. Large firms routinely host open innovation contests to solve problems big and small, and forums like Quora encourage citizens to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
were published in the paper, Financial vs. Strategic Buyers. The research team first scoured data of private equity firms in the United States that had set out to buy underperforming companies and turn them around—with the goal of a... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
survey. (Looking at pictures of endangered Acadian redfish and Atlantic halibut had no effect.) Indirect Questions The researchers also showed that people are likely to share information online if a personal question comes at them in a roundabout way. In another... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel