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  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

recruits by five to 10 months. McKinsey, for example, has laid off both non-client and client service staff, and for the first time in its history, has offered buyouts to hundreds of senior associates. Meanwhile, public consulting firm... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 03 Sep 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
  • Summer 2018
  • Article

Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor

By: Daniel P. Gross
Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope... View Details
Keywords: Technology Diffusion; Spatial Technology Diffusion; Farm Tractors; R&D; General-purpose Technologies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Transportation; Research and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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Gross, Daniel P. "Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor." RAND Journal of Economics 49, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 427–452.
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

United States in Internet use by mid 2004, he predicted. By 2007, the predominant language on the Internet will be Chinese, he said. As a frequent traveler to Asia in his role as director of the School's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

can actually use." Paul Hamilton-Smith opined that software companies "mostly subsist from their renewal revenue stream. That stream is generated by 'new and improved' software versions." And Julian Lowe commented that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

problem lies not with the people who serve on boards, but rather the structure of boards themselves, argue Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch and consultant Colin B. Carter. In Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

like to think we can gauge someone's sincerity and commitment by the look in her eyes or the firmness of her handshake. After all, a bargainer who yields to a demand is said to have "blinked." And if we reach agreement, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally associated with artistic... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America's economy, shaped the country's development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 08 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

same time, the Los Angeles Rams “morphed from a plodding exemplar of mediocrity” to an explosive conference winner, also with the help of a modern, creative offensive system, helmed by the youngest coach in NFL history, Sean McVay. The... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

cases escalate, tariffs placed on Chinese exports by former President Trump. This move is emblematic of a global turn toward protectionism and trade restrictions in the last decade. Businesses have taken diverse approaches in adapting to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

aims are driving a leader's behavior, and they can test these hypotheses by asking questions and sharing their concerns. But we think that the opportunity for fixing such problems lies mostly with a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and R. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Game Time Decision for AppDirect

By: Andrei Hagiu, Laura Arjona and Emily Zhang
AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is faced with the key question of deciding distribution strategy: should AppDirect find channel... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Distribution; Applications and Software; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United States
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Hagiu, Andrei, Laura Arjona, and Emily Zhang. "Game Time Decision for AppDirect." Harvard Business School Case 712-410, July 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

garnering revenues of $4.15 billion in 2012 with products like Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. But there lies the potential rub. "Success is a powerful thing," said Cook, who now serves as chairman of Intuit's Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen, deadly violence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Serial entrepreneur Daniel Betts founded Blue Frontier in South Florida to offer a climate-friendly solution to increase air conditioning efficiency and dehumidify using new technology he developed. Backed by significant venture capital, Blue Frontier had to choose... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Efficiency; Business Strategy; Florida
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jacob A. Small. "Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning." Harvard Business School Case 325-088, January 2025. (Revised April 2025.)
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

article in Fortune magazine, Daniel Vasella, CEO of Novartis, weighed in on the guidance issue: "The practice by which CEOs offer guidance about their expected quarterly earnings performance, analysts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
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