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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
observed that "the automobile has provided the means for people to work collectively and live separately, allowing them to choose where they will live, work, and socialize like no other product does. This View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
(e.g., 5 to 1 or 60 to 1, Studies 1A, 1B, and 1C). Lower pay ratios improve consumer perceptions across a range of products at different price points (Studies 2A and 2B), increase consumer ratings of both firm warmth and firm competence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
extraordinarily detailed maps. Mercy Remembered: Commemorating the Jubilee Year of Mercy Proclaimed by Pope Francis by Rev. Richard Berg and Greg Hadley (OPM 5) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Hadley, the author of numerous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Alumni Books Gretel II Disqualified: The Untold Inside Story of a Famous America's Cup Incident by B. Devereux Barker III (PMD 23, 1972) and John N. Fiske Jr. (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Centered Leadership: Leading with... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
clean." In research conducted with HBS Jakurski Family Associate Professor George Serafeim, Healy found evidence supporting this trend more broadly. In a working paper published this year, the researchers reported that firms' reported anticorruption efforts generally... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the deal for those already leaning toward a particular product. In this case, the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
team up with partners.” That could mean well-established figures like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, in addition to influencers and creators like Huda Kattan, whose show, Huda Boss, streams on Facebook Watch; Kattan can then sell her View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
School professor Benjamin G. Edelman discusses the paper's findings Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy (24,997) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6659.html Published: April 11, 2011 Most startups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Knowledge is codified using a "people-to-documents" approach: it is extracted from the person who developed it, made independent of that person, and reused for various purposes. Ralph Poole, director of Ernst & Young's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
in revenue—as much as 18 percent of all physical music sales. Consumers covet vinyl as a piece of tangible art in a digital age, but for the indie bands selling those records, it’s not about nostalgia, says Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010). “For the average View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest possible dataset covering almost sixty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
forge a partnership with another set of customers. Like companies in many industries, Mobil's immediate customers were independent wholesalers and retailers. Franchised retailers purchased gasoline and lubricant View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
weighed in on the current economic crisis but quickly moved on to advocate for energy independence and cross-sector cooperation between business and government. The panel featured John Doerr (MBA ’76), Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82), Anand... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
from large groups of people is exactly what nonprofits and political campaigns have been doing for more than a century. In today's world, though, the Internet has dramatically altered the ability for companies and independent... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
the acquisition of U.S. Oncology, an integrated cancer care company, whose expertise it could leverage in offerings catered to other physician specialties. With a vast portfolio of products and services serving a wide spectrum of health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne