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- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
less well-known dynamic of customer differentiation and its effect on the way businesses are structured and run is examined in a recent Harvard Business School working paper, "Organizational Design and... View Details
- March 2017 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs
By: Geoffrey Jones, Rachael Comunale and Kate Lazaroff-Puck
This case examines the career of the Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky was one of a small group of business tycoons that became fabulously rich after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, as the new Russian government, advised by prominent... View Details
Keywords: Business ＆ Government Relations; Government and Politics; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Privatization; Soviet Union; Russia
Jones, Geoffrey, Rachael Comunale, and Kate Lazaroff-Puck. "Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Putin and the Russian Oligarchs." Harvard Business School Case 317-005, March 2017. (Revised December 2019.)
- May–June 2011
- Article
The Uninvited Brand
By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
Brands rushed into social media, viewing social networks, video sharing, online communities, and microblogging sites as the panacea to diminishing returns for traditional brand building routes. But, as more branding activity moves to the web, marketers are confronted... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Brands; Brand Building; Brand Management; Digital Marketing; Advertising Campaigns; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Fournier, Susan, and Jill Avery. "The Uninvited Brand." Business Horizons 54, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 193–207.
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
splitting off into more isolated and well-defined communication networks, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Tiona Zuzul. The authors of the working... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- November–December 2020
- Article
Rethinking the On-Demand Workforce
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Allison Bailey and Nithya Vaduganathan
As companies struggle with chronic skills shortages and changing labor demographics, a new generation of talent platforms, offering on-demand access to highly trained workers, has begun to help. These platforms include marketplaces for premium expertise (such as Toptal... View Details
Keywords: Talent Acquisition; Platforms; Skilled Labor Recruitment; Gig Economy; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Digital Platforms
Fuller, Joseph B., Manjari Raman, Allison Bailey, and Nithya Vaduganathan. "Rethinking the On-Demand Workforce." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 6 (November–December 2020): 96–103.
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
neuroscientist and assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, who conducted the research with Baba Shiv, a marketing professor and neuroeconomics... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
recent research from Harvard Business School faculty marks the possibilities and pitfalls that could occur along this digital transformation. A Good Place to Start Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
point. "His hands perform a rapid-fire ballet of encouragement: palms outstretched to reassure the uncertain student, wrists moving in quick circles to urge onward the confident," noted a 1976... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
suppliers, and seems to have implications for policies that promote innovation and good jobs,” says the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen Mills. For example, View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 27 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption
Keywords: by Diego Comin & Martí Mestieri
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
agreed-upon recommendations—even when fewer participants could complete the consulting projects more efficiently. Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax, and James K. Sebenius are principals of Lax Sebenius, a negotiation-strategy consulting firm... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
become an online reseller of used children's clothes, buying inventory from parents and reselling it to other parents. "The problem with the MSP model is that it is sometimes too slow and not sufficiently convenient for either side," says... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s... View Details
- December 2010
- Case
The Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners: 2010 Strategic Re-assessment
By: James K. Sebenius and Shula Gilad
A network of influential Israelis and Palestinians, jointly trained in negotiation at Harvard since 2002, faces organizational, strategic, and funding challenges in 2010. Unlike "people-to-people" or "Track II" initiatives, the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Negotiation Participants; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
Sebenius, James K., and Shula Gilad. "The Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners: 2010 Strategic Re-assessment." Harvard Business School Case 911-025, December 2010.
- 17 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Treating environmental issues as business problems sounds straightforward, but it's not easy. The following assumptions, all of which are common in business thinking, make it difficult to reframe the issues.... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt