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- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
low cost, and it makes a difference.” Wendy Guild Swearingen is a writer and editor based in Western New York. Related Reading: Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car? Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar Deconstructing the Price Tag Has information and... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
her belt, the likelihood of the sale being a spec drops to about 40 percent. Advice for the novice seller Apart from investing in the idea to further resolve uncertainty, other ways for unknown writers to gain access to prospective buyers... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
decision analysis. Drawing from each of these fields but methodologically distinct from them, negotiation analysis has mainly adopted an "asymmetrically prescriptive/descriptive" orientation. It develops the best possible advice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Then hand over the technical work to them (that way nobody inside has to learn anything new) but refuse to take their advice about how the site should look (after all, you're the industry experts). Use more than one vendor—so you can have... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
investigations and advice of chemist Bernhard Hesse. However, the USDA didn’t require the use of certified dyes—or even the certification of food dyes, much to Hesse’s chagrin; it was still legal to use uncertified dyes, provided the food... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
appropriabilty, Ahuja offers advice as well. "Push for stretch goals in innovation," he says. Under pressure to produce in a short period of time, research teams are necessarily forced to go back and find new value in what has... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun theories to explain the puzzle and offered View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
you have seen recessions and market fluctuations), what is your advice to less-seasoned HBS graduates? O'Lear: Buckle your seatbelt. If you accept the premise that the U.S. postindustrial economy reflects Darwinian capitalism, then it... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
(CRM) planning by helping to segment the customer base by their profitability to the firm, so that managers can increase or decrease marketing expenditures to a particular segment. It provides specific advice on how much to spend to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
during times of economic stress. During such times, the most important advice that one can give is first remember that the service profit chain starts with employees—therefore, preserve that resource; second, consider dividing jobs at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
succeeding generations have an easier time adapting to their environment. My advice to families in business is to run a very professional business. Take pride in your traditions; at the same time encourage entrepreneurship. Encourage... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
of one-off contributions, constant mentoring and co-authorship with younger colleagues, distillation of advice into accessible and memorable forms, and investment in an institutional legacy. Beyond these aspects, which I elaborated in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
prospective operators—and perhaps entrepreneurs in other industries as well—take an educated shot at developing a winning service. He outlined his advice in a July working paper, Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Abstract—Negotiation analysis seeks to develop prescriptive theory and useful advice for negotiators and third parties. It generally emphasizes the parties' underlying interests, alternatives to negotiated agreement, approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
career advice and placement for our students. Our core Real Property survey course is in the fall of the second year. We also have two new winter courses on Emerging Real Estate Markets and Design, Development and Construction. In... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
have nobody else show up,” he says. “Developers want to identify and join fashionable platforms that other developers are joining as well.” Some hackathon advice Given the size of the effects they identified, Wu concludes companies could... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
caught the attention of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought her advice about online advertising, later offering her a position as Microsoft’s consulting chief economist, where she worked on the search advertising platform and a host... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
New advice for online retailers suggests bargain items should not be too easy for shoppers to find. (Matjaz Slanic) Retailers have long known where to put the bargain bin—in the back of the store, where customers have to work a little bit... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
believes will be useful to them, and allow him to live with himself. They include advice to aspiring leaders and those who would help develop them to, among other things: Stop relying on examples that describe what should be rather than... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
average in order to compete successfully. "Airbnb's pricing suggestions implicitly acknowledge that price is a market-driven outcome," Luca says. "In a market, prices move until supply meets demand. And the data indicate that discriminatory preferences are factoring... View Details