Hard Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

innovation like developing quite new products. But few are good at exploring significantly new ideas and radically different business approaches. Empirically, it is hard for these more novel ideas to compete inside large businesses in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

or adding new products? Industry Dynamics: Are there fragmented industries where significant value can be delivered through consolidation? Are there shifts in power (e.g., entry or exit of a key player or consolidation of several players)... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

product. In four-drive terms, we would argue that brands would be stronger to the extent they come to represent an implicit promise to the customer that can be trusted, a promise that to some extent addresses all four primary drives. Take Coca-Cola, for example. What... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

resemble the Brady Bunch. It is hard to understand how other people find the time. And yet these models also raise doubts. You may wonder whether it is ever possible for a Bill Gates to be a "regular guy" at his scale of wealth... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

course. Buffett's motivation is only one of the many factors that Media General's president and CEO, Marshall Morton, has to weigh in the case. Eight days from a deadline to repay a $225 million loan or trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Scientific Discovery

we now have the idea that this is possible, and companies around the world are working hard on it.” To help senior executives and scientists at life science companies and related health care organizations advance cutting-edge medicines,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2002
News

Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity

solvent and that a credible monetary policy will emerge, he said. The country also needs international support, but such aid may be hard to come by now. Asked if converting the Argentine money supply into long-term bonds that people don't... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

other’s toes because you’re all able to do the same things and want to do those same kinds of things. It actually causes major problems for founding teams, but it’s a magnetic pull that is so powerful that just about everyone succumbs to... View Details

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The Sixes. Girard was all in as founder and CEO, and the View Details

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

initiatives, new equipment, or anything novel that would require significant expenditures. This, of course, brings about hard feelings among employees in other departments that do consider themselves as business results drivers. They... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

Hollywood." Verba says he came to his reunion "to see the people with whom I both worked and played hard for two great years at HBS. I wanted to catch up with the professors and point out where they were right and where things have... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

material wealth, but we believe it also leads to a powerful contribution to familial wealth, country wealth, and ultimately, wealth for the continent,” says Royster, cofounder of Maarifa Education, a pan-African education holding company.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

citing the examples of Motorola, Southwest Airlines, Revlon cosmetics, Hewlett-Packard, and MTV. Good ideas are not hard to come by. The more complicated part is to harness the diminishing supply of capital. But capital can still find its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

more traditional in top-down organizations. What are the experiences that are hard to replace in remote work? And how can companies replace those with digital experiences? Associate Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury on the lasting lessons... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and dreams were deferred. Curiel... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

only work hard to avoid distraction (by, for example, putting on big headphones) but—because you have an audience at all times—also feel pressure to look really busy. Indeed, all of the cues in open offices that we give off to get focused... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

York, which is great for customers but also means that even some businesses with solid reputations on Yelp can be hard for people to discover,” Luca says. Dai adds: “Going into the project, we weren’t sure exactly what to expect, but our... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

ourselves from our experiences. Second, we progress through a finite series of universal and progressively more complex stages in how we construct our understanding. These two ideas in combination make Kegan's approach to identity development a View Details