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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • 26 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Improving Market Research in a Recession

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Recession-challenged consumers are buying less, looking for deals, or... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 10 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The importance of blockbusters has been challenged recently by Chris... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical
    • 31 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    When Not to Trust Your Gut

    In past issues of this newsletter, we have highlighted a variety of psychological biases that affect negotiators, many of which spring from a reliance on intuition. Of course, negotiators are not always affected by bias; we often think systematically and clearly at the... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
    • Teaching Interest

    Empirical Technology and Operations Management Course

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju
    I taught a set of lectures on "Introduction to Machine Learning for Social Scientists" as part of this required course for first year PhD students. This module familiarizes students with all the basic concepts in machine learning, their implementations, as well as the... View Details
    • 2 Jun 2010
    • Keynote Speech

    Creating Shared Value

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School spoke to an audience of senior corporate giving professionals at CECP's Corporate Philanthropy Summit on June 2, 2010 about the role of business in social and economic development.... View Details
    Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Society; United States
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    • July 2008 (Revised October 2012)
    • Case

    Affinity Plus (A)

    By: Dennis Campbell and Peter Tufano
    The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Profit; Cooperative Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Strategy
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    • January 2000 (Revised March 2001)
    • Teaching Note

    Competition & Strategy: Course Structure TN

    By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
    Provides an overview of the Competition & Strategy course, a first course on business strategy, as taught at Harvard Business School during the summer of 1999. Describes the role of the course in the overall MBA curriculum, the superstructure of the course, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Education Industry
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    • 22 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Componential Theory of Creativity

    Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile
    • May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky

    By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
    Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the future of her nascent company. As sales of Clocky show signs of declining, she must decide whether to... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management; Electronics Industry
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    First Law of Motion: Influencer Video Advertising on TikTok

    By: Jeremy Yang, Juanjuan Zhang and Yuhan Zhang
    This paper engineers an intuitive feature that is predictive of the causal effect of influencer video advertising on product sales. We propose the concept of m-score, a summary statistic that captures the extent to which a product is advertised in the most engaging... View Details
    Keywords: Influencer Advertising; Video Advertising; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Advertising; Online Technology
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    • 06 Sep 2006
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

    Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and... View Details
    Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • News

    Improving Patient Care

    • January 2014
    • Case

    In a Bind: Peak Sealing Technologies' Product Line Extension Dilemma

    By: Robert J. Dolan and Heather Beckham
    Peak Sealing Technologies (PST), a manufacturer of premium carton sealing tapes, stresses technological innovation as the company's core value. But when a new regional competitor introduces a less expensive and inferior product, PST is faced with a decision that could... View Details
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    • 12 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

    Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh & K. Sudhir
    • 2000
    • Other Article

    Understanding the Drivers of National Innovative Capacity

    By: Jeffrey L. Furman, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
    Motivated by R&D productivity differences across countries, we evaluate the determinants of country-level international patenting. Our framework is built on the concept of national innovative capacity. Our results suggest that (a) patenting is well-characterized... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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    • September 2007 (Revised January 2009)
    • Case

    Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged)

    By: Roy D. Shapiro
    Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Quality; Cost; Management Practices and Processes; Business Strategy; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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    • December 1995 (Revised November 1996)
    • Background Note

    Corporate Purpose and Responsibility

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Presents several conceptions of corporate purpose and responsibility as articulated by a variety of groups and individuals during the period 1970-95. Included are materials from the Business Roundtable, the American Law Institute, the Royal Society of Arts and... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; History; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • 12 Sep 2018
    • News

    Celebrating A Landmark Book on Gender in the Workplace

    • 10 Apr 2018
    • Video

    Student Impressions of FIELD (updated 2018)