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  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

have to coordinate complicated networks of suppliers. Johnson & Johnson has to gain approval for new medical devices. Procter & Gamble has to develop effective product marketing plans. For these companies to be successful, they... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Gamble or American Airlines); the maker of a key component (such as microchip maker Intel); the supplier or assembler (such as Dell or Arrow Electronics); or the distributor (such as W. W. Grainger) or retailer (such as Wal-Mart). A... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

"last-place averse." Participants choose gambles with the potential to move them out of last place that they reject when randomly placed in other parts of the distribution. In modified-dictator games, participants randomly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

P&G Harvard Business School Case 706-435 In 2000, Procter & Gamble Co. introduced Crest Whitestrips, a new, revolutionary product that allowed consumers to whiten their teeth at home. With Whitestrips, P&G created an entire... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

negotiations in the 1980s that led to a significant and growing partnership between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Wal-Mart. From the perspective of Lou Pritchett, P&G's Vice President of Sales and Customer Development, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

part, Chinese reformers who negotiated the terms of the WTO agreement made a calculated gamble that it would provide the necessary leverage to force policy changes necessary for homegrown businesses — including SOEs and TVEs — to adapt... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Microsoft and Procter & Gamble each discovered. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-globe-segmenting-the-base-of-the-pyramid/ar/1 The Ambidextrous CEO Authors:Michael L. Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, and Andy Binns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and singing to help staffers think in unconventional ways. Poet David Whyte brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

to create substantial wealth for the company's shareholders would be lost. As it was, the company's founder and CEO had already gambled by investing in enough production capacity for acceptance in the niche beverage market-before a market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

on its way to the successful creation of an entirely new business segment. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410052-PDF-ENG Gillette Company (E): Procter & Gamble Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew BirdHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Fair Trade

pharmacies making concoctions for their customers, could become so international. Today the ten biggest companies collectively account for over one-half of sales throughout the world. The two biggest, L’Oréal and Procter & Gamble (P&G),... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Spirit at Work

brings poetry to corporations such as Merck and Procter & Gamble to stir creativity by helping employees bridge their analytical and artistic sides. Such efforts are designed to reach employees at a deeper level. By engaging more of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 518-041 The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament Should the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament gamble most of its player budget on superstar player Rafael Nadal, even after the event’s previous two editions saw... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Art Nature Business

irreparable damage to the earth and will soon have no choice but to gamble on increasingly dubious theories. A favorite theory of engineers as a last resort to stop global warming is the blocking out of the sun. With this body of work I... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

consumer technology - no matter how amazing or elegant - means nothing unless it is useful, convenient, and readily accepted by customers. The fact that his wife's MBA degree didn't ease the drudgery of tracking the family's finances gave Cook, a veteran of Procter &... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 10 Dec 2014
  • News

Front-Row Seat

doing them. It would be easier to love gambling casinos in China, which are going to grow a lot more than magazines, but I love journalists, editors, and advertisers. Journalists are wired to be in the game, striving, trying...there’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

faced a tough decision: should they pass the bill and gamble with the untried insurance fund, or should they go seek a more traditional solution to the state's banking woes? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

companies, lift outs represent a gamble on credibility, portability of performance, and human capital. Such moves may destroy relationships—with former colleagues, clients, and vendors—and impair the employees’ effectiveness for years to... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced headline double-digit earnings per share growth for the year ended June 30. A closer look at the numbers suggested a less healthy picture. Sales, volumes, and operating profits were down. Investors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne