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- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
Delves says, "that most people are paid so little?" How can inequality be reduced to optimal levels? Is this the responsibility of government? Or is it the responsibility of the private sector? John Mackey, cofounder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, is View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove down View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
high-morale companies averaged a 15.1 percent improvement in their stock price from 2011 to 2012, compared with a 4.1 percent year-over-year improvement among the lower-morale companies. Serafeim's findings also indicate that bribery... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
intensity,” followed by patent filings that didn’t cite papers but referenced another patent that did. The least science-based products offered no connections to past research in their filings. "The added uncertainties and costs of tough... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
The Computer Industry The evolution of the computer industry also has an exciting, largely untold story. In no major industry has a single enterprise so shaped its evolution as did IBM in computers. During the half century since the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
averaging between $50,000 and $150,000. Birnbaum tells of one prospective client in the market for a five- or six-carat diamond who found the prices so reasonable that he returned to consider—and, eventually, purchase—something in the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
center—moms who will no longer have to spend hours commuting each day, and who will return home in the evening to find their kids crafting projects using the 3D printer in the building’s Teen Shack. Despite the stop-work order, Dlodlo is... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
when a company attempts to move in on its market share, perhaps by offering price discounts. Since this strategy is viewed as more threatening, the competitor can be expected to retaliate with prejudice—often by firing off a campaign to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
money than in any other major international market—for insights into how to pursue the broader objective of injecting more variety into the Coke system. The strategy is no longer always the same one: In big emerging markets such as China... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
health-care professionals—doctors, nurses, technicians, etc. The fact that the cost of living is so much lower in India means that the same service is possible at a fraction of the price elsewhere. For most routine issues, as well as... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
The sales force can no longer passively accept and execute plans from marketing. Account managers, product managers, and advertising managers need to work together to protect profits and enhance volume in the harsh world of customer... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Media, and Sports Professor Anita Elberse No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info What does the future of entertainment look like? Fueled by advances in digital technology, will a select few superstars in media and... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
approaching it product by product.” Their findings highlight the complexities managers face in navigating an increasingly competitive industry. But if there's no easy recipe for software firms, even in the seemingly ideal balance of mixed... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
focus of haggling improvisations is the substance of the negotiation, rather than the relationship between the parties. If you've ever negotiated over the price of a car, you've haggled. In View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
as much for the same seeds. That knowledge would help farmers haggle with dealers, but the real insight would come from analytics that go beyond consolidating seed prices to measuring a seed variety’s... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
11,000 community members. Owusu-Kesse had already spent a year at Canada’s side, thanks to an externship sponsored by his employer, Morgan Stanley. Now Canada wanted him back. “I had no idea how much money I would make. I had View Details
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
No business skill may be as important to success as negotiation. We negotiate everything: agreements with partners and vendors, in-scope/out-of-scope parameters around important projects, and our own compensation and job responsibilities,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne