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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Perks of the LVMH Family
such a multi-brand scale that is Sephora! The first thing I noticed is just the difference in complexity. At Sephora you have hundreds of people perusing, sampling, asking questions, etc. at the same time,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- October 2007
- Article
The Art of Designing Markets
By: Alvin E. Roth
Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
Roth, Alvin E. "The Art of Designing Markets." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007): 118–126.
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When the book is written on this election, it should not be titled The... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your children learn how to do the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
in part due to good timing seem to also do well in subsequent ventures. (By good timing we mean those entrepreneurs who founded a company in a given industry at a time when most new ventures did well: for example, microcomputer-related firms begun in 1981 or View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
office employees from their work, surfing the web is arguably the most irresistible time-waster of all. In order to deal with that problem, many companies either prohibit Internet use during working hours,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
that mindset that can help people create their own silver linings. Hanna: It sounds like one of the things we can remember in these situations is that it's OK to ask questions and to push back and to take a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
book excerpt The Swing Of Things From Chapter 6, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World By Michael Wheeler Paying heed is one aspect View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
reason to deal with the issue of doctor burnout. “Organizations have an ethical imperative to take care of their employees,” Goh says. And doing so could help take care of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
natural course of things is often upended by someone saying, ‘This is what I really need right now,’” says Mahesh. “That tends to change the priorities of your plan and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
World Reimagined: The Power of Connection with Dr. Vivek Murthy and Tsedal Neeley
In this episode, host Gautam Mukunda is joined by President Biden's nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and award-winning author, Tsedal Neeley to discuss how humans will thrive in... View Details
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
are fired. Some may need to move to another state or another industry to find a job, and they may not find a job at the same level." The big thing is that “cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes... View Details
Keywords: by April White
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
really? It's just a school. But they were right. HBS didn't change who I am as a person, but it opened doors and showed me things that I didn't even know existed." Farquharson explains that InCube Ventures follows the model View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
experience. Our analysis focused on Microsoft's first two internal browser development projects, comparing their performance to a sample of Internet software projects completed at the same time. We... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
police violence, noting that the lack of economic opportunity has been “catastrophic” to inner cities that have seen massive disinvestment. “These things are related,” he says, in part because the economy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
nature, has the potential for enormous rewards in the future. "It may be that the time to profitability isn't that much longer for a biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
likable, and successful—but something derails them. In other words, the daunting challenge for many leaders and aspiring leaders isn't poverty or oppression or lack of skill or opportunity. It is, paradoxically, the very View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
from historically marginalized groups—even when the real goal is to create a more diverse workplace, because it’s both the right thing to do and good for business. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Summer Jackson... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
High 90 1990 Internet "irrational exuberance" Antigovernment sentiment: Waco standoff; Oklahoma City bombing Influence: Medium-Low 1900 19 First significant enforcement of Sherman Antitrust Act Pure Food and... View Details