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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- September 2017
- Teaching Note
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
This is the teaching note to accompany Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez, and Matthew G. Preble, “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” HBS No. 517-007 (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017). View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- February 2017
- Case
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), faced a rapidly changing sporting goods landscape in October 2016. Two large competitors—The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet—had folded earlier that year, and DKS had to contend with increasingly robust... View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
than reactive. "Similar to Weight Watchers, we need to partner with someone who can help us change." How can we fix what's wrong with the way we work? What do you think? Original Article This month's topic was triggered in part by the View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
OPEC's role as manager of the world's oil supply has just about run its course." One reason OPEC's hold on the world oil market has loosened is that the U.S. has quadrupled its oil production over the last six years thanks to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
strategy, and develop a hobby—all to face weeks on the road interviewing at far-flung institutions. Rouen teaches in the Accounting and Management Unit, having recently completed his own job hunt, which brought him to Harvard. Although... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
simulations, but Strategic Brew stands alone in scope. All 940 first-year students play the game simultaneously as part of the required Strategy course. Roughly 40 faculty and project members manage and supervise the events. “It’s a... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
communicate and made abbreviations like RT (retweet) and ICYMI (in case you missed it) part of the lingo of Twitter users everywhere. What to make of all this? Senior Lecturer Chet Huber, who joined the School's General Management unit... View Details
- April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Positioning; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Denmark; United States; Europe; China; India; Middle East; North Africa
Badaracco, Joseph L., Tom Quinn, and John Schultz. "Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 324-114, April 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
business, and the difficulties writing about such a moving target. Julia Hanna: What is the subject of your book in progress? Stephen P. Bradley: We are looking at industries that are being transformed by broadband such as the news and View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
have far greater access to opportunities. But, who has access to these elite programs? Are they simply part of a long feeder system for the privileged class that starts in private nursery schools? Are they truly open to all? Education has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
dental assistant would be more likely to sign up for cadaver donation with his spouse than a married female firefighter would with hers. The findings indicate that donation program directors may want to target possible donors by sending educational View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
of American Independence." But Wikipedia also employs a series of consensus driven vetting processes that strive to ensure the information is accurate, is verifiable, is built on solid sources, and excludes personal opinion. Just as... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
Gerdeman's story The Manager in Red Sneakers. 2. Resolution: Work harder to meet the demands of a job where you’ve been failing to shine. Tip: Ask yourself whether the problem is actually the job, not you. Today’s jobs are expanding in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2013
- Working Paper
Where do the Most Active Customers Originate and How Can Firms Keep Them Engaged?
By: Clarence Lee, E. Ofek and Thomas Steenburgh
In this paper, we study how firms offering Web services can acquire and develop an active customer base. We focus on two basic questions. First, how does the method of customer acquisition affect the way customers use the service to meet their own needs and to interact... View Details
- November 2008
- Case
Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Alwin R. Kopse
Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and energy from the soil. Thus both the governments of Colombia and India are enthused about the new technological... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Because the two great disturbances that are shaking the world economy are the cyclical downturns in the United States, and especially in the information and communications technology sectors, and the global supply networks. That double... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
would have been thwarted and ABB would not exist. Manage Information Careful sequencing can help manage sensitive information. For a building developer worried about being... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
experiments offer evidence that debates about the relative costs and benefits of self-deception are informed by adopting a temporal view that assesses the cumulative impact of self-deception over time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne