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- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
video via Amazon—but does that create the best environment for the consumer? Research on "overchoice" by HBS professor John Gourville has shown that people can be so... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
the keys to their successful global expansions? By HBS professors David Bell, Rajiv Lal, and Walter Salmon. Global Knowledge Sharing And Performance Drivers Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a Collaborative Advantage HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
center that will attract users to your space and get the user-innovators to self-identify. Beyond that, foster a space where a community can collaborate and criticize both your work and their own work. That's how to get the most out of your customers in the 21st... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Waterloo Records & Video time. Passing the torch The original Waterloo Records opened on April Fools Day in 1982; John T. Kunz joined a few months in. For 43 years, the Austin store was a local institution... View Details
- July 2022 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
A Soul and a Service: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association (the Mutual) was founded in 1898 as a for-profit entity selling life insurance catering to the Black community. The Mutual was entering a field crowded with established White-owned competitors that largely refused to... View Details
Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Insurance; History; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Insurance Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "A Soul and a Service: North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance." Harvard Business School Case 823-032, July 2022. (Revised February 2025.)
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was and how the most... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
and John T. Dunlop of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and David Weil of Boston University. Their recent book, A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
independent members, chosen by both sides. Problem resolved? No. Another buyout was proposed but couldn't be agreed on. The battle moved to the board: Mike's branch wanted to invest aggressively in the business; George's branch wanted... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- Web
Marketing - Doctoral
Leslie K. John , Ryan W. Buell , Rebecca Ratner , and John T. Gourville Serena Hagerty, 2022 University of Virginia, Darden School of Business... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55504 forthcoming Theoretical Economics Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
advertising industry. Other important work is being done by four new assistant professors, including Narakesari Narayandas's study of long-term relationships between manufacturers and vendors, Susan M. Fournier's work on customers' brand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
electric powertrains into 40 percent of its lineup by 2020, while the Volkswagen Group intends to launch more than 30 new electric models by 2025. “Within mainstream, old, dinosaur auto companies, there’s no... View Details
- Web
Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
DeFilippis, 2023 Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Greene Lab, Post-Doctoral Fellow Advisors: Joshua Greene (Chair) , Mina Cikara , and Jeffrey T. Polzer Hayley Blunden, 2022 American University, Kogod School of Business... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for by the supplier instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
Advisors: Michael I. Norton (Chair), Leslie K. John , Ryan W. Buell , Rebecca Ratner , and John T. Gourville 2020 Dafna Goor Marketing, 2020... View Details
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Strategy - Doctoral
Raffaella Sadun William A. Sahlman George Serafeim Willy C. Shih Christopher T. Stanton Jorge Tamayo Jo Tango Sara McKinley Torti Isamar Troncoso Eric J. Van den Steen Andy Wu Jeremy Yang Dennis A. Yao David B. Yoffie Shunyuan Zhang... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace