by David Goldreich - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2019
News

The Finance 202: Proposals to tax the wealthy are gaining steam. That could help some 2020 Democrats.

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

student as a DBA-- doctor of business administration--student.”) David Wittenberg was more to the point, arguing that it is not inadequate recruitment efforts that are producing disparate enrollments. “Let’s do everything in our power to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

optimal pricing for new products. Schematic of Pricing Software Developed for Rue La La to Predict Demand and Optimize Prices. The researchers showed that Rue La La could increase revenue of products in the experiment by approximately 9.7... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

January 2002 (Revised January 2004)
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Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in the Twenty-First Century

By: David B. Yoffie and Yusi Wang

Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges of the 21st century included boosting flagging domestic cola sales and finding new revenue streams. Both firms also began to modify their bottling,... View Details

Keywords: Price; Growth and Development; Brands and Branding; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Performance; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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07 Oct 2011
News

To his millions of fans, he was simply Steve

01 Jan 2007
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Strategy + Business Magazine's Best Management Book

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Managerial Decision Analysis

By: David E. Bell

David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. are concluding a multiyear project aimed at producing more field-oriented case material for the Managerial Economics course, specifically, materials on decision, data, and risk analysis. A series of case- and textbooks (with... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

seemed obvious. Q: Customers are ruled by these four drives, just like everyone else. So what product, or product strategy, is needed to attract the four-drive customer? A: Those who study brands have found that great brands are based on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

Now, at 79, Fauci is the central figure that Americans depend upon to lead us through this crisis with his honest, candid advice and counsel. Last week he was on all five Sunday talk shows and then on a Facebook Live show with Mark Zuckerberg, followed View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

03 Feb 2020
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Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

organizations are, at once, on many right tracks and wrong tracks. “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” David Wittenberg concurred. As he put it, “organizations should... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Feb 2015
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Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

This philosophy of management, wherever it is found in the Silicon Valley, was in some ways inspired by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, founders of Hewlett-Packard and proponents of the "H-P Way"... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Feb 2017
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Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

in half, with no loss in pay to the workers.” David F. in Arizona reminded us that “Markets may be efficient, but they’re not always quick to reach equilibrium.” As a result, some businesses will invest in training their own employees,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

30 Nov 2018
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What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

January 2021
Supplement

What Went Wrong with Boeing’s 737 Max? (B)

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal

Following the March 10, 2019, crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, en route to Nairobi, Kenya and the October 29, 2018, downing of Lion Air flight 610 as it took off from Jakarta, Indonesia, Boeing’s 737 Max jet, the model flown in both instances, was grounded by... View Details

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24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

In Bangalore, a state-of-the-art hospital staffed by Western-trained physicians treats anyone suffering from a heart ailment. It accepts patients regardless of caste, class, religion, and perhaps most surprisingly, their ability to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

Programs An outdated regulatory system designed for the traditional banking system was one of a number of important factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis, Professor David Scharfstein says. “The financial system had evolved over 30... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

backgrounds—the intersection where creativity is most likely to occur, according to The Medici Effect, a book by Frans Johansson (HBS MBA '00) that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

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