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- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19 vaccines. A negative externality... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Development Organization controlled by a federally recognized tribe.[27] There are also $550 million for Bureau of Reclamation domestic water supply projects,[28] which funds the planning and construction of water projects that are... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
recognize that risk management is only part of the story and that the benefits of positive values go well beyond problem avoidance. I have seen this progression in some companies that initially turn to values as a damage control measure... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
be that they should weigh carefully the costs of breaking trust and of risking reputation. The formal study of behavioral economics exactly relates psychological factors to economic behavior, and even more recently has been exploring the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Controlling IT costs is an important financial priority for the School, and toward that end HBS has begun to shift toward software-as-a-service platforms rather than custom-developed applications. The School... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
people can weigh the costs and benefits of their current behavior taking into consideration its implications for the future, and still choose to engage. One way to test whether people are in fact “rational” about their addictions, Hussam... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
their global competitiveness. Their approach was simple: They centralized huge scale and built all the Toyotas in Toyoda City. Or they produced all the Panasonic VCRs out of Osaka. These huge, centralized, scale-intensive operations drove their View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
Summing Up Future Corporate Governance: Different, But More Effective? Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
sellers' product spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that Amazon's entry reduces the shipping... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2017
- Working Paper
Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-048, December 2017.
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
began to move into the position of dominance that it enjoys in the MBA curriculum today. Building on the foundational work of Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means on the separation of ownership and control in the large corporation, and of... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
A number of studies have suggested that US workers waste between one and two hours a day web surfing, costing their companies billions in lost productivity. In response, some employers have banned private Internet use at the office, a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
fiscal 2022. Controlling IT costs is an important financial priority for the School, and to that end HBS has begun to shift toward software-as-a-service platforms rather than custom-developed applications.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
decision that invites initiative and not followership." But John Inman's comments suggested a concern that was more strongly voiced by others, when he commented that "if you are a command and control manager keep away from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
larger, but the potential rewards increase, too." “The risks increase as the size of the venue increases, but the potential revenue goes up as well” With arena performances, the Gaga team was looking at some $12 million in start-up production View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
compared the firms' performance over six years. What they found: in the beginning of a relationship, suppliers enjoyed no significant difference in sales, inventory holding and control costs, gross margins, or return on investment. But... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
third party. By contrast, a grocery store also creates a space for consumers and multiple brands to meet—but the store controls the transaction, serving as a reseller. Done right, the MSP model has proven extremely lucrative, throwing off... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn off. Among several items detailed... View Details