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- 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
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
Amazon execs to remain above it all.) And for a rental-dominated community, wouldn’t this wealthy influx of Amazonians drive up rents, housing prices, and real estate costs, forcing long-time residents and local independent businesses to move? Moreover, there was the... View Details
- 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
- Web
About Us - Research Computing Services
Matching Large Language Models (LLMs) Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Revise and Resubmit Support Simulations Visualizations Software Licensing (login required) HBS has university-wide licenses for most research software (e.g., Stata). Below is a list of... 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
- 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
- 24 Apr 2023
- HBS Case
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
- 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
- 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
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 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
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
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 families to share in-home Montessori care by... 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
- Blog
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
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
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Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research
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
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk, uncertainty, and performance for the long-term benefit of both... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details