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- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher—or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a result, the market's most... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research Event
Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference
the Business History Initiative. For a detailed summary of the conference, read The Business History of India and South Asia: Recent Trends in Research, written by organizers Jones and Walter A. Friedman,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
take-charge author, the publishing industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made... View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; and Walter A. Friedman, Lecturer of Business Administration, and Director, Business History Initiative. "The exhibit is a wonderful demonstration of this innovation and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
works," he said, "[but] as department stores, we should be encouraging cross-shopping." Panel moderator Walter J. Salmon, the Stanley Roth, Sr., Professor of Retailing, Emeritus, at HBS, asked whether the continuing... View Details
- 2004
- Book
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
Friedman, Walter A. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
you're buying a car, and then you find out six months later that the car will cost 25 percent less. It’s terrible.” The perceived value of an object by buyers is essential, especially if you look at customers as relationships rather than... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe." Stevenson and Kuemmerle set the... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
Summing Up Does IP Ownership Belong in International Trade Deals? Intellectual property (IP) regulation remains an active issue in trade negotiations between the China and the United States. The most straightforward element of the negotiation—US attempts to reduce its... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
factored in." Walter P. Blass noted that in academia the search is usually run by a search committee, but the nomination needs the approval of the next level to that position. "That way, you get... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
ridiculed Babson's forecasting methods, which were informed by his belief, based on his reading of Isaac Newton, that economic "actions and reactions" (or depressions and expansions) would always be equal. But Babson was able to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
to be inconsistent, if not contradictory. "In the ultimate analysis, however everything boils down to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The importance of maintaining an open mind on the subject of leadership... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
fall in love with Tony the Tiger and forget the product details. In 1984, Democrat candidate Walter Mondale famously questioned Gary Hart's "new ideas" by asking: "Where's the beef?" As... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details