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01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

created by the fact that Blake is earning about 70 percent less in base pay than Nardelli, totally aside from the fact that the latter also took home a nine-figure package in incentives. Home Depot's stock has had lackluster performance... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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packages provided to the research community for free. ARCGIS Mathematica MathType MATLAB SAS SPSS Stata Stat/Transfer Compute Cluster & Data Storage If your desktop or laptop is overheating when trying to work with your data, taking days... View Details

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

Congress approved a $2.2 trillion relief package to stave off what's predicted to be the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Yet, the results reveal a troubling pattern as policymakers, charities, non-government organizations,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

it in capsule form, and added tamper-evident packaging even though those steps could have been used against J&J as an admission of guilt in a lawsuit. When Intel first became dominant in its product market, top management instituted... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year industry, without a revolutionary shift to outside-in thinking that allowed companies such as Fresh Express to realize that busy consumers wanted companies to make the whole salad for them rather than simply... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

delivery trucks (think FedEx/UPS) with a platform that enables anyone to deliver packages in their own car. CozyKin Jeremy Au (MBA 2018, Section C) Business Track Runner-Up For working parents seeking infant childcare, CozyKin pairs... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

Early iterations of IBM's ViaVoice software package featured IBM's "ideal" customer on the front: an administrative assistant sitting in front of her computer, speaking into a headset. It is easy to see why IBM targeted such... View Details

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

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

negotiation for both parties as possible.” To retain those trade-offs, Zlatev suggests that companies consider making certain elements of a compensation package non-negotiable, especially as research reveals the most gap-widening aspects,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

quantity. As a result, one manufacturer was able to reduce its package sizing by 10 percent to 20 percent over the course of three years with little to no negative consumer response. Q: Can you share some product-downsizing success... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

considering cellophane. It’s deliberately transparent, after all. You’re meant to consider whatever it’s wrapping instead. Yet, it turns out that cellophane has a story worth telling. A new research paper exposes the historical significance of the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

compensation package as well as directors and officers insurance. Compensation will vary by type of company and stage of development. For public companies, this information is public. For private companies, use your network to find out if... View Details

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Data wrangling Database management Web scraping Research Software RCS purchases most research software used at HBS. HBS has site or volume licenses for several packages (e.g., Stata, SAS) for desktop use, which are provided at no cost to... View Details

24 Apr 2023
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What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

products, such as what can and can’t be printed on packaging labels, also vary across states. Even when they come up with a catchy advertising idea that’s acceptable to regulators and consumers—such as the Cann-produced music video called... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

the product they’re being nudged toward evokes a stereotype about their gender. Suggesting that women will clamor for a product wrapped in pink packaging just because some marketer assumes that all women love pink can come across as... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

of time in which Nester can engage a customer: A prospective buyer tours a house, gets serious about it, and decides to put in an offer—and now they need Nester. To reach more buyers, Kennealey started offering an enterprise package to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

Social Strategies That Work

Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new... View Details

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Data Practices - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits RCS has compiled an array of packages and tools that can help you with your data wrangling, web scraping, and statistical analysis, among others. Below is a selected list of tips and toolkits. Machine... View Details

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