Analyzing Strategic Alternative - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

of discovery and creative progress rapidly accelerated in the wake of professionalization. In an open society, moreover, there will always be room for "rogue" entrepreneurs to challenge the existing order, as practitioners of View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

members to test out theories and analyze results that often lead to breakthrough ideas. Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB Web 1.0 1990–2005 Web 2.0 2005–Present Web... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018). She’s director of business development... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

anything as monumental as a multimillion-dollar feature film." The answer resonates beyond Hollywood, carrying implications for any industry in which the stakes are high, uncertainty looms large, and alternative methods to de-risk ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

interested in playing can join the simulation. New HSX traders receive "Hollywood dollars" and can increase the value of their portfolio by, among other things, strategically trading "MovieStocks." The prices of those... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

which strategies to use in their marketing mix. Steenburgh, Liu, and Gupta argue that the tools that have been used in the past to analyze the effectiveness of different marketing activities—called discrete choice models—can skew the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2022
Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

at West Elm as a buyer, analyzing trends in the market and developing our Bedding and Bath products, before moving into buying at Bloomingdale’s (just like Rachel from Friends), where I selected and oversaw merchandise from several... View Details

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

responsible for overall investment, strategic planning, and asset management. Looking for the perfect location for a family vacation retreat in 2009, Turner and his wife, Lydia, found and purchased 400 acres of pristine land in Dover... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

granting access to the course content within 2 hours . To maximize your 90-day access period, we strongly recommend logging into the course platform as soon as you receive this notification. If you plan to pay online using a credit card, you may do so at any time. If... View Details

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

care, state-of-the-art facilities, and skilled doctors are available in many parts of the world, including in developing countries. Auxiliary health-care providers such as nurses go where care is needed. Filipino nurses provide an example, perhaps. "From a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of... View Details

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

employees, rather than simply issuing orders, leaders can promote operational flexibility, employee engagement, and tight strategic alignment. Groysberg and Slind have identified four elements of organizational conversation that reflect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retailers will need to reconfigure as vast spaces become unproductive. The most obvious victims so far of this shift are music, video, and book retailers—these categories are virtually nonexistent outside the Internet channel. Barnes & Noble is continuously trying... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

markets and analyze the impact of market changes 12 hrs Module 2 Strategies for Assessing and Increasing Demand Appreciate how complements and network effects impact demand and evaluate techniques to increase demand and measure the... View Details

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AOM Ethno PDW 2009-2014

AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

CEO Dan Vasella made counterintuitive moves by expanding Novartis's generic drug, vaccines, and consumer health businesses in spending heavily on acquisitions to offer alternatives to patented drugs. Meanwhile, he focused Novartis's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

of transition look like, and what can we learn from it? And how will it affect the career paths of individual venture capitalists?" Analyzing this process has put Wasserman hot on the trail of many more areas of inquiry that promise to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Harvard Business School

later, HBR asked Jones to assess the progress of Black managers at corporations in the United States. In 1986, he wrote the HBR article, “Black Managers, The Dream Deferred.” From New York Telephone he moved to AT&T, where he oversaw nationwide View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

the chicken-or-egg problem is probably the most difficult challenge for platform strategists. When side A’s volume depends on side B, and side B’s volume depends on side A, how do you get started? Here again, innovation and transaction platforms need to approach this... View Details