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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 04 Aug 2006
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

Summing Up There's no need to rethink important economic constructs just because of the growth of the Long Tail phenomenon and its impact on demand and supply. Or is there?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

that resulted from their well-honed capital budgeting process and was consistent with their assumption that tires was a growth industry. Because none of the four Akron tire companies had closed a factory... View Details
Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 22 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front capital costs for... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

If you start a discussion about workplace diversity policies, don't be surprised if the hopeful topics of ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity lead to negative discussions about sexism, bigotry, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

and questions about growth and scalability. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310053-PDF-ENG Note: Disclosure, Regulation, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 9

and inspiring work; and the environment, by becoming carbon neutral. The case covers the decisions that Warby Parker must make at the beginning of its third year of existence as a consequence of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

three flat panel TV brands, along with Samsung and Sony. Faced with intensifying price pressure from the industry leaders and an unprecedented economic recession, Wang wondered how VIZIO could best sustain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging markets?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

growth track but remains chiefly concerned about its vulnerability to supply disruptions and to increases in merchandise costs from higher input prices. The firm appears quite overvalued based on a multiples... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

enabled retailers to do on a mass scale of millions of customers what shopkeepers did in their villages a century ago: offer a differentiated service to each shopper. Shopkeepers knew each one personally and... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • March 1999
  • Case

MotivAction plc (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
The owner/manager of MotivAction is developing a package of incentives and bonuses that he hopes will stimulate sales growth, encourage development of new autonomous teams, and increase profitability. If they are adopted, these new incentives will replace others... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Profit; Organizational Culture
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

clinic for an upfront 45- to 60-minute consultation with a team of caregivers that reviews their physical and mental health, as well as their living situation. Each patient is then rated on a risk scale from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

or transition into commercial retail and office buildings, which offer growth potential and unique challenges. Groom Energy must also decide which geographic regions provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)

building revenue models, and interviewing customers. I continue to leverage learnings from this effort to inform ongoing product and growth efforts. What advice do you have for... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

spread the ideas of Final-Five Voting, scaling a few early innovators into a coast-to-coast campaign of universal adoption and action. Thanks to the upstart laboratories of democracy that have shown us the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne