Nutritionist In Your Pocket - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

innovation. Mainstream suppliers of tabletop radios, which were made with vacuum tubes, couldn't figure out how to use transistors because they couldn't initially handle the power requirements of these components. Then in 1955, Sony... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

16 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

in your savings account if that money will be withdrawn from a future paycheck rather than the paycheck in your View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

deflate,” Miller recalled in a recent Harvard Business School case. The partner had a job offer in his pocket that he had planned to hand Miller, but the prison time changed... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

Out with the old, in with the new! That's the natural path of innovation. PCs killed typewriters, for instance. Smartphones superseded telephones, pocket calculators, and point-and-shoot cameras. Every once... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

building. Sometimes the place to start is not at these big issues, but at these smaller issues, we actually, we call it in our work, the indignities list. I know these issues are scary and big, but start with the indignities, just the... View Details

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online

note that we do not provide refunds for the purpose of changing your payment method. If splitting your payment into two transactions, a minimum payment of $350 is required for the first transaction. View Details

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

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2021 Virtual Presentations - Alumni

projections. The recovery has been spurred by rapid vaccine development and hampered by slow vaccine rollouts, supply disruptions, labor shortages, and pockets of inflation. A range of new regulations and the restructuring of Evergrande... View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

could apply this high-level machine learning to in an aggregated way,” says Campbell. “It could help you understand pockets in your organization... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

the core, and pivot to new opportunities. We provide a top-level overview of major topics and ideas relevant to each concept. We hope you are interested in engaging in further research about any topics that... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

grocery. All of the new businesses were unprofitable, though, and the losses from rural retailing threatened to overwhelm the entire company. Even worse, the avian flu had dented the poultry feed business, hitting the pockets of its... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

those that give them a little taste of luxury at a reasonable price. "It's an affordable luxury," he said of his company's beauty products. "Do you have thirty-two dollars in your View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

company and you're investing in more advanced equipment, that's going to push your local suppliers into having to innovate," Pisano says. "If you want to work with us as a local supplier, you have to be able... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

shared that she "learned the hard way" about the physical, social, and financial toll that a failure to deal with the 24/7 work mentality can trigger. As she put it, "What you ignore in your... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

it out of the skin instead of cutting it. By patenting that process, however, it gave competitors insight into the idea. Competitors with deeper pockets used the same concept with elaborated features that would go beyond the ones patented... View Details