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- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
culprit is what he calls the fixed-performance contract. "The targets for sales, costs, and key ratios that are spelled out in the budget become an implicit contract," he says. A recent Hackett survey found between 60 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
customers more than others. But once discount voucher services become known to most consumers, price discrimination will become considerably more difficult. In principle, discount offers can be customized for—indeed, targeted... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
illustrating my points with examples from companies including Home Depot, McDonald's, Merck, and Pfizer. There is no magic bullet that can target the pitfalls of your business strategy, but you must engage in ongoing, face-to-face... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
since the 1980s has coincided with a strong revival in interest in local traditions and practices, which is particularly noticeable in some of the fastest growing emerging markets such as China. Working Papers Do Measures of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2024
- Teaching Note
CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub
By: Frank Nagle and Maria P. Roche
This teaching note is the companion to case N9-624-010 CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub, which takes place in late 2021. The case briefly describes the history of both GitHub and Microsoft with a particular focus on open source software (OSS)—software... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
compared to Kmart. (The other companies in their quad were Target and the Limited.) Both companies were in roughly the same financial shape in 1986, but Dollar General grew steadily, showing healthy profits year after year. Meanwhile,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
the Author Dina Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: Cecilie_Arcurs] Related Reading Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate Don't Turn Your View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or launching startups and launching... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the market has in assessing the impact of these bills. Consistent with the legislator incentive mechanism, the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
product/service and its core value proposition. Describe your business model. Describe its stage of development (concept, prototype, beta, growth, etc.). Describe your primary source of competitive advantage. Summarize plans include developing [x, y, and z] in [year or... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
what matters to companies in a modern company remains left out. This approach is fundamentally different from the old industrial policies that targeted industries by tilting the competitive environment on View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- Web
From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
motivators, leadership style, and needs. Keep in mind that the CEO role is not right for everyone, and some who achieve this goal find that the responsibilities are not in line with what they enjoy doing most. Self-assessment coupled with external assessment of the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
so will its golfers. (Japan is Callaway’s largest market after the United States, followed by Europe.) On Topgolf: “Callaway is a part-owner. You hit a ball that’s been microchipped to track accuracy and distance and score points for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of a wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel Meron must determine GI's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked
Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg