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  • 04 Mar 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Do People Want to Work Anymore?

month’s column How Do You Hire for Attitude? Hiring for attitude, training for skills is an important and winning strategy. But too many applicants experience what Caroline Hickey, in an email to me, described: “As a career coach, I frequently support people through... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

businesses need to know in 2024. Alexander MacKay: Focus on finding balance Since 2021, as companies faced supply shocks and changes to demand in an inflationary period, executives have increasingly focused on consumer price elasticities.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • November 2024
  • Article

Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Price; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Product Positioning
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  • June 2011
  • Case

Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors

By: John A. Quelch and Carole Carlson
Reed Supermarkets is a high-end supermarket chain with operations in several Midwestern states. Meredith Collins, vice president of marketing, visits stores located in Columbus, Ohio, an important region with the largest market and the greatest impact on revenue... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio
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  • 17 Feb 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomer Self-Expression

Keywords: by Dan Cable, Francesca Gino & Brad Staats
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

Aggarwal asked, "How many businesses truly were established with the vision of making the world a better place?" Jassi Brar said, "One must be able to 'afford' the good." Steve Holton had a different take on this issue: "Profitability View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • October 2016
  • Case

Triangulate: Stay, Pivot or Exit?

By: Thomas Eisenmann, Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
Sunil Nagaraj, Triangulate's founder had spent a few years trying to launch a dating application that matched users based on their behavior on social media. Based on input from advisors, the company changed its focus from a B2B site to a B2C dating site with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage; Pivot; Two Sided Markets; Business Model; Business Exit or Shutdown; Product Launch; Venture Capital; Failure; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States; North America
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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • News

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

  • 11 Aug 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements

Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

behavioral set of responses. One of the interesting things about carbon emissions is that it crosses all of the domains of our lives. We all need a host of behavioral changes... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

comes to discussing geopolitical issues that might impact the business, Wing says. She suggests keeping the conversations professional, but also not avoiding topics that are relevant. In this case, in particular, management can model View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

experiment. Featured Case Hometown Foods: Changing Price Amid Inflation Case By: Julian De Freitas, Jeremy Yang, and Das Narayandas During the early part of the 2021 Covid-19 pandemic, Hometown Foods, a large seller of flour-based... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

to consumers’ reluctance to change vendors, and the ability to sell more products to this seemingly captive group. “A lot of startups are incorporating subscription models into their business plans, partly because investors are pushing... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

Keywords: by Peter Tufano & Daniel Schneider; Financial Services
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

changes on Black Monday for the 2014-15 season, seven for the 2013-14 season, and eight for the 2012-13 season. This year Black Monday is on January 4, 2015.  Three coaches, Ken Whisenhunt of Tennessee Titans, Joe Philbin of Miami... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who spent five years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) before joining the HBS faculty. “And so we have this sort of binge diet kind of process of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • October 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Cottle-Taylor: Expanding the Oral Care Group in India

By: John A. Quelch and Alisa Zalosh
Brinda Patel, director of oral care products for the India division of a consumer home-care product company, develops a data-driven marketing plan for toothbrushes. She believes her plan can support a 20% increase in unit sales based on rising demand for modern... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting; Budgeting; International Marketing; Product Planning ＆ Policy; Sales Promotions; Marketing Plans; Products; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Advertising; Product Launch; Budgets and Budgeting; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; India
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  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

Pons conducted the study with Harvard doctoral students Sahil Chinoy and Martin Koenen; Jacob Brown, an assistant professor at Boston University; and Enrico Cantoni, senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna in Italy. Does moving View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

Fubini, a senior lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, poured that knowledge, along with a list of lessons learned from researching leaders past and present into the book Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding