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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
additional trucks and hired a team of drivers, a move that enabled him to get off the road and look for new customers. For the next two years, his business thrived, but when... View Details
- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
skilled workers. Sometimes it's best to avoid following the herd and seek out an original niche. That was the road taken by animation studio Pixar, which established itself near the mudflats of Emeryville,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
Homogenization has made it easy for fast-food joints to circle the globe, spitting out carbon copies of themselves, their burgers, and their fries along the way. But in the most populous country in the world, a fast-food giant stepped off... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
computer simulation highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
or the family circumstances of their student populations, had access to resources that supported learning. After going on the road and visiting a wide range of schools, she uncovered a gap in school... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
TripAdvisor, which doesn't have such accountability. On the other hand, Luca approves of the more extensive options that TripAdvisor provides for sorting and categorizing reviews of hotels—for example, business travelers can find reviews... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Business School and author of nine books, including Learning in Action. The details vary, but in the main, all organizational change involves three phases: an initial stage of recognition View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
the benefit of the Google brand. And eventually, the Chinese regime might change to a more democratic form of government, in which case Google's stand might go down in history as one of seminal moments on China's View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
managing the relationship. "Rather than going after the entire volume, break up the needs into different parts, and try to initiate a relationship using one component, selling only this one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
ultimate product that they can actually build. They move from that initial starting point to their ultimate objective with remarkable efficiency. These entrepreneurs understand both the ultimate mainstream customer View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
building a bedroom suburb or a freewheeling entrepreneurial hub. A competitive infrastructure is vital: Each of these projects put down a main trunk road of more than 20 kilometers, with room for mass transit in the median. Each invested... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
developed alongside the infrastructure. The catch is that almost all of that happened in environments that were already above average in terms of the financial conditions,” Kerr says. Martha Lagace: How did you come to study roads View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
the bells were too similar in tone to be sounded together. That some deemed the School's books unwelcome at the university library and that the School was considered an appropriate home for an unwanted bell suggest an View Details
Keywords: Education
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
In a hugely ambitious project, the Unique Identification Authority of India has been charged with implementing a nationwide program to register and assign a one-of-a-kind ID number to every Indian resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
adaptation and argue that organizations suffer inertia when they fail to change as quickly as the environment. Although the tire firms delayed closing redundant capacity, they responded fairly quickly to the introduction of radial tires... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Shivaratri Snan bathing day on March 10. To accommodate everyone, the Indian government creates a temporary city-building roads and providing power on what is normally an empty flood plain. Senior Lecturer... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna