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  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

For many years, Americans have shown their generosity to myriad nonprofit organizations. And 1999 was no exception, as charitable giving in this country reached a record high of just over $190 billion. At the same time, however, there is... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

old technology, and "retreat" strategies, which attempt to accommodate the rise of the new technology by repositioning the old technology in the demand environment. Underlying our arguments is the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

pointillist painter, and it's easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur?... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

the new technology could lower tester costs dramatically and thus had the potential to disrupt Teradyne's core business. But CMOS technology could not initially operate at the performance levels demanded by... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • July 2013 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation

By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation has a horizontal firm structure in an industry that is predominantly organized vertically. While it has been successful in up markets, in the current down market its strategic rationale was being tested. As a capital-intensive... View Details
Keywords: Industry Structures; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Framing Effect of Price Format

Keywords: by Marco Bertini & Luc R. Wathieu
  • September 1992 (Revised July 1993)
  • Case

Staples, Inc.

By: David E. Bell
Staples is dissatisfied with the merchandising of its office furniture. The case reviews the situation, allowing students to consider whether the category should be dropped or changed. Permits consideration of the portfolio of products a positioning implies, and... View Details
Keywords: Change; Product Positioning; Supply Chain; Salesforce Management; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

brands, forever on the lookout for new opportunities; home life has become an act of managing supply chains, outsourcing housecleaning, childcare, and even grocery shopping to others; View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

operations at Schwab. "Only when it was clear that there was a huge demand for the new way and that it was actually going to replace their existing brokerage did Schwab reorganize. So it was a one-time... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 20 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One

ambiguity and demands that you listen to other perspectives. Every class is taught Socratic-style. The cases offer no clear right answer, making you a more agile thinker, a more compassionate leader, View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

  PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

In the land of the digitally connected, the mobile device is king. The majority of digital media consumption happens on mobile devices, with smartphone and tablet activity making up 60 percent of digital screen time in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • December 1998 (Revised April 1999)
  • Case

Mind of the Market: Constructive Memory Processes, Primer Nine

By: Gerald Zaltman and Kathryn A. Braun
Keywords: Markets; Research; Consumer Behavior
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  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

& Fung is a publicly traded family company that McFarlan reckoned would clock $5 billion in US sales by the end of 2001. The company operates a supply chain network involving "thousands" of factories across China, Southeast... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910)

By: Felipe Tamega Fernandes
The literature on the rubber boom applied a Dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though a sizable surplus was generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the Global Commodity Chain... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business History; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Brazil
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  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

etc., you would get a list of very interesting and sometimes helpful practices. And if you, as a public leader, aren’t doing the things on that list, you should. And if you,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of gun manufacturers are severely depressed, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Does “liking” a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne