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- 08 Aug 2022
- HBS Case
Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS
itself improbably shattering records held by Justin Bieber and The Jackson 5, and amassing 100 million fans. In 2019, BTS joined The Beatles and The Monkees as the third band in 50 years with three albums at the top of the Billboard 200... View Details
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
offers several other considerations for executives: Gradual transitions might help employees adjust. The USPTO required in-office examiners to work from home before shifting to the fully autonomous option. A gradual shift might give employees time to set View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
International Airport in the summer of 2010. The need for capacity expansion was driven by significant challenges faced during the previous winter combined with substantial scheduled growth for the upcoming winter. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
way, I believe we're kidding ourselves. Is it likely that somebody who isn't a financial expert can show up six times a year and really understand Citigroup? Q: In an attempt to head off the next financial... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
model who showed you that women work both inside and outside the home. We wanted to see how that played out." The research team aimed to find out whether growing up with a working mom influenced several factors, including employment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the United States. However, healthy banks expanded their operations and entered new banking markets. The market share gain of these banks was a standard deviation above the long-run historical market share growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change
Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
concept of "Enterprise 2.0"—a term coined by McAfee on the general idea of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in business—popped up on Wikipedia, McAfee beamed. "I was bizarrely proud when my work rose to the level of inclusion in... View Details
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
authors spent more than a year creating their own by compiling nine databases and lists. The authors then set out to track and compare companies and their basic characteristics. After filtering through 2,747 potential impact investors,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
decisions because they fear failure. I know, because it happened to me. In my first year as CEO of Medtronic, I passed up the opportunity to buy a rapidly growing angioplasty company because it faced patent... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
serial entrepreneurs versus first-time founders. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders,” says HBS Professor Lynda Applegate, who has spent 20 years studying leadership... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
medium-sized, for-profit retailing organization. You have been asked to approve changes to the company’s orientation program that probably would not have crossed your desk several years ago. Your human resources group has proposed changes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused enormous inefficiencies that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
Summing Up How Can Strategic Planning be Adapted to Changing Needs? Strategic planning concepts and the notion of long-range planning will continue to be integral parts of responsible management. But they may require a substantial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
this product.” During the video’s 12-plus minutes of step-by-step instructions, Hughes holds up product after product close to the camera so viewers can get a good look at each brand name. Because, after all, Hughes isn’t merely sharing... View Details
- 29 Nov 2010
- HBS Case
United Breaks Guitars
attempts to recoup the value of his guitar (broken in transit) are stonewalled for over a year by United Airlines. Posted on YouTube on July 6, 2009, the video was tweeted by Carroll's friends, posted on social news sites, shared with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
Thirty years ago it appeared as if biotech would not only revolutionize healthcare, but also radically improve the very process of R&D itself. This hasn't happened. Though some firms such as Amgen have created dramatic breakthroughs,... View Details
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details