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- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
more localized products coupled with licensing agreements linked to specific movie franchises might be an option, but an expensive one. The company also had to consider that "diminishing play time and the threat of a disruptive... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
developments are important. Our study provides the first serious evidence that file sharing cannot explain the decline in music sales in the last couple of years. In addition, in the last two quarters, music sales increased while file... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
their own revenue contributions and business expenses in Will. Four times a year, the balances of individual P-Will accounts were converted to real currency and paid out as bonuses. In the last couple of years, about 10 companies,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
the tire companies were investing in old technology and in the technology that was making it obsolete—at the same time. Eventually the capital markets had their way. Q: What are you both working on next? Gilbert: Right now I am looking at a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
focused in his first couple of years. He got rid of a huge number of product lines. He streamlined the operations and he bet on a very small number of products. The combination of the early success of the iMac, the booming marketing in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
for improvement and can also be coupled with organizational changes via processes of organizational learning, even in the face of intense efficiency demands. Furthermore, our findings suggest important strategic considerations for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
couple of related projects. One, with colleagues Anita Tucker and Ingrid Nembhard, is trying to better understand how the learning activities of improvement project teams—teams created for the express purpose of improving some aspect of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. Coupled with a growing race to the bottom in wages and benefits, this workplace erosion of trust could negatively affect... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
pulling out and demanding large royalties on their patent. Standard setting bodies can limit these "opportunism" problems. Q: You discuss a couple of interesting issues with regard to SSOs: "Real authority" and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's strategy depends on standardization... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
pernicious unintended consequence. Agenda overload, coupled with the quest for efficiency, often works against a leader's best efforts to stimulate debate. Why does efficiency crowd out debate? For some dissenters, it takes some time to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
couple of conclusions that ultimately made us change our model. Scott Randall HBS MBA '87 founder and CEO, FairMarket First, we took a good look and said that ultimately it would be hard for us to become experts in multiple verticals. You... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
were not present for much of American history. That reflects a couple of things. The growth of the state has been quite dramatic, relative to the early decades of the American experience. There was, much like today, a huge concentration... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and earn some management exposure, and you say you'll only work... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
importance of values and standards in business and the role leaders play in articulating them. Fifteen years ago we began teaching a required course called Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. Last December, after a couple of years of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
coupled with various programs to address the frozen credit markets and depressed investors' confidence. Yet the burning question in every policymaker's mind was—how effective would the various plans work to revive the U.S. economy?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
that? A: You're right. There has been very little academic research done on project finance to date. In fact, there have been only a couple of articles directly on project finance published in the leading finance journals, and not more... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they consider workforce reductions; the other on the overall effects of layoffs. Case studies on... View Details