Value Added - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

"They are like personalities," whose strength is their consistency of quality and service. "They are the source of a reputation that customers can trust," added Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (HBS AMP '90), vice chairman of... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in... View Details

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

parties, music events, knitting circles, culinary demonstrations, and other events. Several stores Raffaelli visited reported staging over 500 events a year. “Bookstores have always been a place where people could convene and have a conversation about the issues of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

more value to Utah businesses and attract other CEOs to relocate to the state. Twelve of the last 14 people I hired were former CEOs. We turned key state programs—like incentives—into a P&L, meaning that if they View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Portrait Project

Polina Yampolska

stars... Per aspera ad astra. Unbelievably, my wish came true. Here at HBS, engrossed in the social and developmental psychology that underlies Organizational Behavior disciplines, I have discovered that my path to the stars lies within... View Details

27 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

word out about the recall. Among other methods, the company is using bold red ads on high-traffic Internet sites such as Yahoo.com to find owners of the affected products and drive them to the Mattel Web site for more recall information.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

01 Jun 1999
News

Joel Bines

offered by his parents, who, he says, "taught me the value of extending myself and working hard." Bines's forays into the unfamiliar began just after his graduation from Bates College. After serving as a student intern for the... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

then rent to marketers, who send our members online advertisements that match their stated interests and activities." So what's in it for members? ClickDough shares with them at least 50 percent of the revenues it earns from advertisers, whose View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

immediately understood and added value to a number of deals,” says Alastair. “But the single biggest value he brought? He was excited by our mission. He’s done everything from... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

17 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference

Engagement”. Oriented around the consumerization of health care and patients as more engaged stakeholders, 40 panelists across different 8 panels and 2 keynotes delivered their thoughts about what adding a more invested, active consumer... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Jun 2015
News

The End of Cows?

example, there are roughly 1 million jobs connected to the beef industry—from companies that grow crops for animal feed to slaughterhouses. And the USDA reports that meat producers created more than $66 billion in added View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scientific Research and Development Services

Web

Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Option 1: Add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions researchgrid$ chmod u+x *.pdf Option 2: Alternate way to add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions. ‘r’ has value of 4, ‘w’ is 2, ‘x’ is 1, so ‘rwx’ for owner is 7... View Details

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2015
News

Balancing Progress and Preservation

than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those who argued that it was... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Profile

Prita Kumar

added another $25,000. With a total of $55,000 in grants acting as seed funding, Kumar leaped forward with Booya Fitness. One of the harsh realities has been that post business school fundraising has been a significant challenge.... View Details

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details