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04 Aug 2010
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The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology

07 Aug 2015
Blog Post

Takeaways from the Class of 2015

How do you sum up your biggest takeaways from business school in just a few sentences? This year, the Class of 2015 was challenged to do just that. After reflecting on their two years at HBS during the Bridges programming, each student... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

more orders for products. Margaret Bourke-White explained that color posed “a great element of chance, as many unexpected and peculiar things can happen” and cautioned photographers to oversee the color... View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

focus, always try to find the "right" answer. Organizations often prefer a "good enough" answer, providing it can be implemented effectively. Future leaders need to better understand the nuances of how to get View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

limits of their technical mastery. He gave them some slack to work with, and asked them to do unusual things with it. It's interesting to think about and look at examples of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

"Kash" Rangan, distribution channels are the hardest to change of all the elements of marketing strategy. Clearly, companies need a new strategy for going to market, he says. In his new book... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

August 2018 (Revised February 2023)
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Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing

By: Jill Avery and Ayelet Israeli

As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact lenses, are reflecting on the marketing strategies that have taken them to a valuation of $200 million and debating... View Details

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Bricks and Clicks: The Effect of Store Assortment on E-tail Format (with R. Lal and E. Ofek)

An often neglected aspect in existing studies of the Internet selling process is the high volume of product returns. Such returns reflect a major logistic expenditure on behalf of companies that sell over the net. The problem is reduced when consumers shop in physical... View Details

May 5, 2020
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Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

There has been a massive shift in how work gets done inside many companies and the global pivot to working remotely will likely change how many think about face time and rigid work schedules. Might these changes benefit women? The authors argue that will depend on how... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Flexible Work Arrangements; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Gender

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20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

promotion of independent bookstores. But then a funny thing happened. While pressure from Amazon forced Borders out of business in 2011, indie bookstores staged an unexpected... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

dancing, just a gorgeous display of things going on. At midnight, there were these tasteful nude dancers, if you will, a man and a woman brought in to kind of wrap around a... View Details

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

looks like a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers and the predominance of low-involvement entry-level jobs. But are sufficient numbers of entry-level... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

generations to feel that we kicked the problem down to them, I’d rather solve it now. One of the other unique things about 44.01, aside from the technology, is that we are working in a part View Details

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than by car. Edmondson, the Novartis Professor View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

September 2000 (Revised June 2002)
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Overview of E-Business Pricing Models

By: Lynda M. Applegate, W. Earl Sasser and Kristin Kohler

Supplements National Logistics Management. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Business Model; Information Technology Industry

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13 Jun 2014
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The Art of Effecting Change

Bridgitt Bertram Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its ability to challenge existing norms. And now she's transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund, a new model of... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment

15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization

older among us; or, if we fail in that, at least the younger generation will have grown up with a presumption of incorrectness for the things that they read online. Rafael Di Tella: What Rawi is describing,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information