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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Sony sold them to teenagers, a group that couldn't afford the nice-sounding, floor-standing radios their parents enjoyed. For them, a transistor would do just fine. Once the initial crummy product has kick-started a market, follow-on products become better View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
and hardiness identify as crucial: Control: Which facets of the situation can you potentially influence? Think about how a person you emulate and admire would act. Then, work... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- October 2022 (Revised September 2023)
- Teaching Note
Kwame Owusu-Kesse at Harlem Children's Zone
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-020. View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
pleasurable but in fact are required for it. I would see the savings rate rising, but not for a while due to all the fairly basic personal infrastructure purchases that are occurring. Q: What are the advantages View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
future interactions of both the infected person and his or her past connections. In addition, because a majority of COVID-19 cases are with no symptoms, they go undetected. Proactive testing can identify the... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
yes/no decision making; Web-conditioned users who believe "free" is an entitlement; rapid mood swings in markets; and a lack of loyalty among customers and employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
food and fuel; we're talking about health care, about which consumers and providers may be less rational. For example, behavioral economists would tell us, among other things, that in the world of health... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson asked her colleagues and business executives that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
Stefan Thomke, assistant professor Jonathan West, and Senior Research Fellow Juan Enriquez-Cabot. On February 12th of this year, this latest scientific revolution was launched in earnest when two research groups published their work to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
dissolves the social contract between people and government." Phil Clark commented that "Those who go bankrupt lose sight of personal principle and beliefs. A country... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
the research in Imperial Reckoning. “They wanted to bring forward the strongest claimants in what would be a tort claim—basically a big personal injury case that accused the British government of systematically torturing them View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
Tate's Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? WORKING PAPERS Competing with Privacy Personal information is a valuable asset in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
the CEO of this collective enterprise was the need to focus the attention of the work force on performance issues. "His task was to create a value system that favors personal accountability, emphasizes product quality, View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
employees. And several identified personally with the phenomenon. Desirable qualities of imposters were described in different ways. Julie Cohen said, “The balance of competency View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
department and focused on the "interruption" of customer buying behaviors, the need to acquire new customers, immediate transactions, and the treatment of marketing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
what important groups of customers say they need in the way of products and services of increasing capability (as well as prices and margins) expose themselves to competition... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2020
- Supplement
Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)
By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang
This (B) case expands upon the journey of Career Karma’s three founders by presenting a fictionalized Investor Meeting scenario. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; Education Industry; Employment Industry
Huang, Laura, and Elizabeth Jiang. "Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-125, June 2020.
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
great customer service is no longer the responsibility of just one department. Creating the customer-centric organization. (12,182 visits) What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style Researchers use machine-learning to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne