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- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
rare, but too many executives swing for the fences with each new innovation. This not only marginalizes people who work on smaller projects, but also tends to result in projects modeled on existing market successes—that is, not that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
and dispose of them. The circular economy uses what is already there, which saves on the extraction and processing piece, then keeps those materials in the system. If you can avoid both extraction and waste disposal costs, it can create significant View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
climate change. ESG in fact has little to do with impact. The problem here is less of the product but misleading marketing and a whole bunch of opportunism on behalf of asset managers who by and large have benefited from ESG as a sexy and especially higher View Details
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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
organizations tend to anchor their pricing decisions on an estimate of unit costs and a target margin or use competitors’ prices as the benchmark. They want to “keep things simple,” but in so doing forget or neglect that customers drive... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
stories. Indeed, all of these intermediaries are in the business of matching consumers with products. Trouble is, prior to visiting an intermediary, consumers are interested only in some products, which may not necessarily be the ones that yield the highest View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
their customers' customers can capture a larger share of channel margins and build loyalty that can protect them against lower-priced competitors. Can Individuals Create Their Own Brand? The Case of the Mystery Writer's Brand A look... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Second, VW factories "fully loaded" the New Beetles with options to maximize the unit margin that VW and the dealers extracted on each vehicle. Third, VW incented its dealers to stock up on non-scarce cars such as Golfs and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
through the math behind the dynamic and the role of marginal cost of abatement in reaching this point. Students consider other market design factors during the debriefing session, such as determining how to set initial permit allocations.... View Details
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Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need | Working Knowledge
employees tend to feel less stress and strain. It also fosters a sense of inclusivity, particularly for workers who have been historically marginalized in the workplace. Seek input with humility and openness Psychologically safe leaders... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
the carbon capture to farmers, but couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. The reason: There wasn’t a profit motive. “But then I met these organic farmers, and the bottom line is that we sell the crops for twice as much, the margins... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
with a healthy alternative.'" Which HBS case study had the greatest impact on you, and why? "'NuCor Steel' changed the way I evaluate innovation. I am now very much on the lookout for low-end disruptors as well as aware of incumbents' resistance to change in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
many people who were living on the margins of society.” She also found the work at HBS challenging. “I think HBS is a very rigorous place academically, and I think that’s what makes it great,” she observes. By the time she graduated, with... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
for example, it diminishes that person and marginalizes the brand," Deighton says. "I think the central idea here is that in the future, brands will be more talked about than talking." View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
diversity of the HBS classroom and society as a whole. This is the first step in broadening the range of cases featuring protagonists from the full array of underrepresented and marginalized populations. The goal is to use these cases for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the sales force on the right... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major Canadian city, a group of... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
marginal investor can change over time. We usually think of mutual funds as relatively sophisticated investors, perhaps even exerting a stabilizing influence on price at times when individual investors are going crazy. Unfortunately,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
marginalized groups on campus." Neel Ghose (founder of the Robin Hood Army): "Ghose brought his commitment to feeding the hungry to HBS, and during his time in the MBA program has increased his sectionmates’ awareness of the... View Details