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- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
decisions, but no one is singularly accountable for the results. Second, responsibility for brand equity still resides in the marketing function, yet brand equity has never been more volatile and important. Today, powerful brands can emerge almost overnight. Similarly,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that exported commodities that were in high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) the state governments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Platform: Business at the Kumbh Mela By: Macomber, John D., and Tarun Khanna Abstract—India's Kumbh Mela, a religious festival occurring once every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, attracts over 80 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
they can sell. “At the same time, companies shouldn’t simply be saying, ‘You’re a great salesperson, and I’m sure you can manage.’ I do think sales managers must learn how to manage.” Setting up sales-to-management success Cespedes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers
with Gen Z shoppers in their teens and 20s. The payment method made up $97 billion—or 2.1 percent—of total US e-commerce sales in 2020, a figure that is expected to double by 2024. BNPL is so lucrative, merchants are paying fintech... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
conversation heading in the right direction? Badaracco describes a range of approaches interviewees followed and recommends people see what works well for them. One approach suggests mental meandering by letting your thoughts, feelings, and attention wander for a few... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
Capitol—relatively few firms lobby. In fact, they found that only 10 percent of firms in the sample lobbied in any given year, and in some years that number was closer to 5 percent. Secondly, the researchers found that the probability of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
experiment in three sites in which we paid off high-interest moneylender debt of individuals. Most borrowers returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
should just hold steady—this thing will eventually skyrocket,” Pacelli says. “So, it could be the case that these influencers are just part of that community, and they really believe it’s going to go up forever. It could also be the case... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual customer relationships. Typically, time-driven ABC projects pay back in less than a View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
organization that not only solved crimes but also prevented attacks. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency. He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
beneficial effect reverses (i.e., cost transparency backfires) when it is revealed that a firm's profit margins are high relative to those of its competitors. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48019 Paying View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth by double-digits each View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
retention practices, notes that the new HBS note comes at a time of ongoing racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, whose death two years ago shined a light on numerous inequities faced by Black Americans,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said eventually about the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
years ago. There were two things that prompted me to do so. One is that I had written a book called Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (HBS Press, 1997) which is about big deal, high-stake, traumatic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
South Asia Institute and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying and writing about India’s space program for many years and is part of a space research working group led Professor Matt Weinzierl at the... View Details