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17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

the following 50 years. Business historians have explored the reasons for this deglobalization, demonstrating how globalization can result in losers as well as winners. The historical evidence on how firms and governments have in the past contributed to suboptimal... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

started to rise, climbing 49 percent in the next decade to nearly 2,500 stores nationwide. The resurgence has lessons for other industries. “Indie bookstores have defied the odds,” Raffaelli says. “What happened in this sector has... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized the problem that his own growth... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

April 14, 2010
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Straight Talk: Oprah's Leadership Lessons

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Leadership

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24 Jul 2009
Lecture

Lessons from the Financial Crisis

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Financial Crisis

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03 Dec 2015
Cold Call Podcast

Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail

Keywords: Re: Das Narayandas

January 2009
Article

Innovation Lessons from the 1930s

By: Tom Nicholas

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Learning; History

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February 1994
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Hardest Lessons for First-time Managers

By: Linda A. Hill

Keywords: Learning; Management

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27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

Asked for leadership advice, Terry Virts thought for a moment, letting his microphone float weightless in front of him before responding. "You have to adapt your leadership style to the situation you're in," he said. Nobody knows that better than Virts, who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less expensive solutions for customers... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

May 3, 2011
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Leadership Lessons from the Saddle

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Leadership; Learning

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13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Summer 2016
Article

The Real Lessons From Kodak's Decline

By: Willy C. Shih

Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn't recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional business. However, what really happened at Kodak is much more complicated—and instructive. Kodak suffered from a... View Details

Keywords: Technological Change; Disruption; Ecosystem; Semiconductors; Photography; Scaling-up; Scaling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Product; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

to use strategic levers such as market power and channels of distribution, growth in demand leading to diffusion of the new technology through the population, and uncertainty. Thus, this is one example from which we can generalize lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

15 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

the plug on every idea brought their way. Q: You categorize these mistakes under the headings of strategy, process, structure, and skills. Could you summarize your remedies? A: Here are a few of the dozen lessons I offer in the article:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

September–October 2023
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Building Brand Engagement: Lessons from NFTs and Collectibles

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Ben Plomion

The financial hype about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has cooled considerably since trading in that market went from more than $780 million on May 1, 2022 to less than $295 million for the entire month of May, 2023. But brands launch marketing campaigns in this medium,... View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Digital Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy

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12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

solitary pursuit of writing, not jockeying for advancement in a business organization. Even so, according to HBS professor Teresa Amabile, a good look at Irving's life to date reveals fascinating lessons on how to think about the notion... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace