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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
framing price appropriately.” Alternatively, currently popular strategic doctrine has many executives sailing off, like Ahab or Sinbad, in search of "blue oceans"—market spaces where allegedly no one else is fishing. Avoiding... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
strategy and more on the processes by which the company allocates resources. Top managers must know the track record of the people who are making resource allocation proposals; recognize the strategic issues at stake; reach down to operational managers to work across... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
Nohria: The key moment really came when we clearly framed the question, "What basic mental drives do all humans have as members of the same species?" Once the question was sharply posed and carefully considered, drawing on our... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
felt my job was to support entrepreneurs. Even for entrepreneurs with whom we wouldn’t make an investment, I found myself giving a lot of advice and feedback. “While this isn’t the right fit for us because of x, I want to be helpful. When you talk about y, you may want... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
would delve into. Art became my portal to everything: history, philosophy, science, far away cultures, and those closer to home. Through the works we studied, framed by our collective perspectives, I was able to explore all facets of the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
only responded to globalization but also driven and framed it. The study of particular industries over the long term, employing deep archival research on individual firms, has generated unique insights on evolving corporate structures,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- Web
Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
foreshadow longer-term trends that are emerging in the Global North. Ultimately, it is these dimensions of "Africa Rising" – the contradictory current condition and what we may learn from it in order to conduct business and initiate new entrepreneurship ventures on the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
entrepreneurial success despite a less-than-favorable context? A global perspective on opportunities is also fraught with questions. "How should entrepreneurs frame international expansion decisions? How does international expansion... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Street Journal's "Abreast of the Market" column, Parsons found that even savvy investors are susceptible to influence, in a way that can have real effects on the stock market. "Even the most sophisticated players in the world are not completely immune... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
both requires and depletes self-control resources (Study 4). Taken together, our findings help to explain how otherwise ethical individuals predictably engage in unethical behavior. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
is designed to help an executive frame a decision-making process to answer an issue he or she is wrestling with and move forward with actionable steps." View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
interest to me. Fortunately, I got in." HBS provided the frame of reference that Maddy was lacking. "I have applied quite a lot of what I learned to my career," she says. "For me, the discipline that the case-study methodology teaches has... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
separate evaluation, the employers were more likely to choose male employees for the math tasks and females for the verbal tasks. But in cases of joint evaluation, stereotypes did not seem to matter at all. The researchers attribute their findings to View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
service organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-110.pdf Communicating Frames in Negotiations Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Markus Nöths Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
property with a market price and opportunity cost. Rights are matters for regulation, assets are matters safely and usually better left to markets. Framed in these terms, here is the problem with regulation. It solves the problem of... View Details
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
protocol, and dig into the footnotes. DO NOT search online for what happened. Honor the discussion framed in the case. Nina Olle (NO): As long as the technology is reliable and the virtual classroom properly facilitated, a virtual... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Clearly, my effort to frame the discussion around just the third question failed. As George Olsen said, "A lot of the people posting to this discussion appear to have missed the point." But responses have prompted me to wonder... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
examine attitudes towards two critical phases of conflict termination—a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We examine the rigidity/flexibility of refugees’ attitudes to see if subtle changes in how wartime losses are framed or in who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
between shareholders and boards." He adds that it forces both entities to grapple with an extremely complex issue. "To have more say on pay, you need to have something to say in the first place." One At A Time The political climate has muddied the waters... View Details