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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
hand, it creates all kinds of interesting opportunities for energy-intensive manufacturing. You will also see restructuring in the power generation sector, as low oil and natural gas prices reduce power... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
used to reside only with the retailers. There was an information asymmetry that created a power dynamic in retail, but that is gone. Consumers have stormed the castle, and the hard work for many companies is... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
telephone-television-Internet system." Given the success of the Internet, which the authors liken to "a kind of broadband on training wheels," they predict that as broadband technology evolves during the coming years, its power to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic role of large global firms. MNEs... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- Web
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
Help Center Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship How can I find underserved markets as a black entrepreneur? Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands... View Details
- 02 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference
featured 3 keynotes, 6 panels, a networking lunch and cocktail hour. As thought leaders in marketing, our keynotes delivered powerful presentations about how their company’s execute a consumer-centric strategy: Michael Moynihan of LEGO... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
one time," says Buell. Third parties also track service quality (J.D. Power in this case). And because banking is a service that touches almost everyone, its customer group is diverse, making the study's results applicable to other... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
brands are on display on every street corner of the world. The very ubiquity that gives them their power makes them vulnerable. Q: What will the results of boycotts be on American premium pricing overseas? A: Some View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. Powerful channel members routinely... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
pursue these two models and do fine, says Holt. 'something Different' But the brands that interest him most, consumer brands that maintain the most powerful grip on the market for years running, don't fit... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Meka Millstone
environment which they can extend into their personal lives. My wish is to inspire all those around me to be passionately involved in life. I hope to continue to energetically pursue my "passions" as: a motivational leader in retail, View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap Cover image features Mavath R. Chandran (left) and Ghassan E. Nuqul (right). The average American consumer today considers whether the everyday goods... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
Roundtable, 200 powerful CEOs said corporations should widen their missions beyond just maximizing profits for shareholders. These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social ProblemsUsing business to create social change... View Details
- Profile
Nathalie du Preez
conflicting viewpoints, challenge my existing preconceived ideas, and help me make business decisions in the future in a more powerful way. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? Before HBS I tended to... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means chairman, stated "our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the American people. We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so... View Details
- Fast Answer
Market trends, opportunities in advanced technology fields
industrial automation & process control, energy & power systems, automotive & transportation, and environmental & building technologies. Gartner Online - The database includes research findings on a wide range of... View Details