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  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

is spectacularly good at opening people's ears to others and requiring them to make an articulate argument," she observes. Having discovered a passion for marketing at HBS, Jacobson moved to New York to join Colgate-Palmolive and was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

change.” In the opinion of davidfinaz, employees walk through the door of their new employer with hidden skepticism based on previous work experience. “Organizations have a huge hurdle of mistrust to overcome.” Christopher Hunsicker... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Jun 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

explore them we would be able to realize such things as more substantial, farsighted, successful new product introductions (such as the hybrid auto ten years ago at Toyota); more successful conflict... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

generalizability of the implicit voice theories identified in Study 1. Studies 3 and 4 develop and test survey measures for five implicit voice theories, using additional samples comprised of more than 300 adults. The analyses establish psychometric properties of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

would need to install new headlights and windshield glass and all U.S. states would require a change in product manufacturing. Land took away valuable lessons from the experience: "I knew then that I would... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

both explore and exploit-to compete in mature technologies and markets where efficiency, control, and incremental improvement are prized and to also compete in new technologies and markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2012 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Rodan + Fields Dermatologists

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Roberts and Liz Kind
The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The company is trying to better manage the inconsistent and highly variable recruitment behavior of the sales force i.e., the degree to... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Salesforce Management; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; California
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  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

in two major product lines for a large enterprise software vendor to examine the use and success of pricing and product strategies. Regarding pricing, the paper demonstrates that the vendor engages in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

behavior. In fact, the code responsible for creating many consumer electronics is widely available and is often used as a springboard for developers to further innovate, sharing ideas and crafting new View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • December 1997 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

www.springs.com

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Business Week's June 1997 "Rising Star" profile of Springs Industries' president and COO, Crandall Bowles, reported that she was poised to become one of the top two or three women executives in the country. In November 1997, the company announced Bowles' appointment to... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; Product Marketing; Management; Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; South Carolina
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  • 17 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
  • November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

ConAgra Foods

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Ingrid Vargas
In 2002, ConAgra Foods CEO Bruce Rohde was deliberating the next steps in the process of transforming the company from an agribusiness giant to a value-added food processor. ConAgra had become the second largest food company and number one food service supplier in the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food; Agribusiness; Product; Business Processes; Management Teams; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • 05 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

managers with more information to guide decision-making toward increasing social welfare in areas where it makes sense for the firm and in the context of the new tech-driven business ecosystem. “More and more, firms are having to interact... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

traditional approaches in building enterprises, their governance, and growth.’’ The technology is open source, so different teams can build together. Participants value open information flow, universal accessibility, and decentralized governance of businesses and View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

13,101 in fiscal 2021, a 20 percent increase over the prior year. The group also delivered virtual custom programs in a range of industries, piloting new delivery models that accommodated the needs of clients to reach large-scale... View Details