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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
"green," as though there were a categorical answer. "Of course, the answer is, 'It depends.' The appropriate environmental policies for a firm depend on the firm's circumstances: the basic economics of its industry, its position within... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
is enough interest to go further? Which is the better strategy for young innovators? What are the pros and cons of each? Can the risks be measured and mitigated? “The pitch or spec dilemma touches any independent inventor looking to sell... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
a new type of game in which you can achieve different kinds of results? For people who are ready to move on despite the pleasures of the table or the satisfactions of the job, these examples correspond to profile 8. In these cases, the most View Details
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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA
have acquired a body of knowledge, skills, and techniques appropriate to the practice of business administration. The candidate must have demonstrated—by a commitment to the work, a sense of responsibility to colleagues and others, and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
talk or Kardashian talk and sometimes they go a little bit too far” Play involves both intentional interaction and turn-taking—and social media engagement between marketer and consumer certainly qualifies—making play an appropriate word... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Say “Green Cheese”
Housenbold told Newsweek (June 2, 2008). Taking over as CEO in 2005, Housenbold has expanded the company’s product line and boosted revenues to $187 million last year. Next up for Shutterfly is entering the social-networking realm, as it works to figure out View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
Twitter—establishing an account, getting people to follow the firm, and hoping that those people will respond in kind. Such strategies have allowed firms to engage in an activity that's very familiar to them: broadcasting content to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
attractive strategy for the "mice"? A: A carefully executed acquisition—through a well-designed agreement—can have many advantages over other ways of going to scale. Compared to organic, self-funded growth, it can allow much... View Details
- Profile
Hann Yew
process of due diligence and collecting feedback that helped us think out what we are trying to do. Using the HBS network was foundational for coming up with an appropriate business strategy for entering the... View Details
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to mega-cap, from the United States to emerging markets, from... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
selling complements to recorded music. We see some examples for this strategy even today: Apple sells songs to promote its iPods. Prince gives away his most recent release to promote his concerts. We need careful continuous monitoring of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
In this three-part series, we start with an overview of why retail experts Rajiv Lal, José B. Alvarez, and Dan Greenberg believe retail is at an inflection point. In Part Two, coming next week, they identify effective strategies for... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
international economy. It is appropriate that the conference took place in Silicon Valley. This all but unique confluence of ideas, research, financing, and human resources has served as a matrix in which venture capital has either... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the country and placing this activity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
too long a period of time for the disruptive growth engine to function. Can the appropriate culture be created and rewarded and the process—or as Patel terms it, the "pathways" —be designed and managed successfully over... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
management's control choice is motivated by both the logic of functionalism (relevance) and the logic of appropriateness (legitimacy) of particular controls-and that both of these are socially constructed by proponents. First, behind the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In the case of Zuckerberg vs. the Winklevosses, the twins may have had created a simple interface for college kids to connect with one another, but it... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider... View Details