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- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
contributions. For example, on the liberal side of the spectrum, you have Democracy for America, founded by Howard Dean, and also Moveon.org. However, online enthusiasm does not necessarily translate into the superior on-the-ground... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
internal factors that constrain or enable these responses, and examine how the firms’ responses affect their performance. Our empirical context is the U.S. newspaper industry, which has experienced increased competition following the entry of Craigslist, an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
to close. Sales at restaurants—one of the hardest-hit industries in the US—fell by 30 percent in March and another 34 percent in April, according to the Census Bureau. This led some policymakers and economists to conclude that the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little bit like the Uber of farming, in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Fast-fashion retailers have differentiated themselves by rotating their assortment multiple times throughout a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
stated that their ventures were separate from their parent company, but their daily work processes indicated otherwise. Online sales reps still reported to and had offices near their print managers, for... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
is the profile of 80 percent of your customers? Focus on better serving these customers. (2) Manage the online part of the business outside Mexico—there are many Spanish speakers who are e-efficient. (3) Focus on scalable furniture View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
"When you talk to people on the front lines, they know this is complicated and hard," she says. Communication Breakdown Investing in technology change without organizational change won't work either. For the Harvard Business Review article The Short Life of View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
concert. Our first show of the academic year just took place On December 2nd via YouTube livestream. Putting together a virtual concert actually required more work on all members. Each of us learned how to use an online software for... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart's leadership had targeted the rapidly growing e-commerce arena as a strategic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and sales growth in high corruption geographic segments compared to firms with high anticorruption efforts. The net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
program for children, and VincuVentas, a tech-based talent agency for sales professionals. Bichara is quick to note the Social Enterprise Initiative’s backing over that summer and as he heads back to his native Mexico with a Social... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
constant marginal costs, there is never a pure-strategy solution where the lower-quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A obtains revenue from follow-on sales, as might arise when A expects to make upgrade View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
based on the color of a person's skin through its “Dark is Beautiful” campaign—endorsed by well-known actor-director Nandita Das. However, despite the recent guidelines on advertising of skin-lightening products, many Indians still aspire to have fair skin. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Online Sales By: Teixeira, Thales S. Abstract—Consumers have become avid media multitaskers, moving seamlessly between their TVs and digital devices. Shorter TV commercials have reduced both the quantity and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
only 910,000 homes on the market remained unsold nationwide, an all-time low. And Zillow, the online real estate sales platform, recently revised its 2022 forecast upward, predicting home prices will surge... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- Web
Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
management, sales and marketing, engineering and technology, talent, and operations. In nearly every class, the course hosts case protagonists – founders, CEOs, and some VCs – as guests, mostly in person and on campus. Many guests also... View Details