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  • 19 Feb 2019
  • News

How startups are disrupting the retail industry

  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Improvement in Global Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Leadership Is a Conversation

  • 11 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

years at HBS, allowed her to pick up experiences, skills, and knowledge that would help her carve a path from chemical engineering and supply chain to climate operations... View Details
  • 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'... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

The Three Levels of CSV - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

reconceiving needs, products, & customers – Meeting societal needs through products – Serving unserved or underserved customers By redefining productivity in the value View Details
  • April 2023
  • Case

Twitter: The Freedom to Speak Freely and Be Heard

By: Randolph B. Cohen, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mel Martin
In April 2022, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he would be interested in purchasing the social media site Twitter for $44 billion. With more than 100 million twitter followers, Musk had historically leveraged the site to engage with the customers of his... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Acquisition; Social Media; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Communications Industry; Public Relations Industry; United States
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  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

firms develop OS software while selling some part that is closed, or proprietary. That model sounds like it should work well for all companies, since it seems to represent the best of both worlds—innovation and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • Web

Operational Effectiveness vs. Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value View Details
  • 15 May 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

services firms are using digital information about their customers to offer them a whole new range of customized products under the category of fintech. Cities are using data from Google Street View to guide... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health
  • Web

Creating a Successful Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

proposition compared to competitors. A Distinctive Value Chain Choosing how the organization will operate differently to deliver on its value proposition. Making Strategic... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • News

Off the Shelf

  • March 2018
  • Teaching Note

Making Target the Target: Boycotts and Corporate Political Activity (A) and (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Victor Wu
Through the challenges facing Target, the case examines the ways in which corporations can become involved in political and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to... View Details
Keywords: Public Opinion; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Media; Political Elections; Taxation; Corporate Accountability; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Diversity; Customers; Communication; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 2015
  • Report

Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States
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  • August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

NerveWire, Inc.

By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Behavior; Internet; Newton
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    Operational Transparency

    Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully understand and appreciate the work going on behind the... View Details

    • 05 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Business and the Global Poor

    interests align? Kash Rangan: At its core, the private sector has always been about value creation—producing goods and services valued by consumers, generating employment,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2025
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books

    Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
    • 19 Jun 2019
    • News

    Connecting Patients and Providers

    make global specialized healthcare accessible to anyone, anywhere. Trustedoctor “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey, before customers become in-patients of a provider”... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 01 Sep 2014
    • News

    Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

    employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna