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  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

Jamie_Hall Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods last August was the corporate equivalent of mixing tap water with organic extra virgin olive oil. You’d be hard-pressed to find two companies with more different value propositions. Even so, it was surprising to hear... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • April 2003 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

ZARA: Fast Fashion

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jose Luis Nueno
Focuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what's selling and what's not and continuously... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Spain
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Teacher Workshops - Case Method Project

taught cases, and discuss how to adapt the case method for their students. The Project covers all expenses, including lodging and meals, the cases, and supporting materials, with the exception of travel to Boston. To receive more... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Supplement

Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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  • 10 Dec 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Julianna Pillemer, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

    broadly for other industries looking to appeal to younger clients or adapt marketing strategies to a fluid business environment. Sizing up a changing investment world Historically speaking, financial advisory firms have focused on... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
    • 22 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    What is FIELD Global Immersion?

    where they are discussing cases, and actually step into the shoes of a protagonist; 2. Enhance students’ cultural intelligence and ability to adapt to doing business in foreign contexts; and 3. Practice the human-centered design... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

    leaders that instead of wasting their time wondering why things are the way they are, they should simply accept their world as given. But even in situations where things are beyond our control and adapting is the only viable option—that... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    fostered the adaptation of new management frameworks to drive social change within all sectors. Impact Stories Explore stories about our students, alumni, and faculty making an impact in the field. Understanding Our Social Impact: 25... View Details
    • Web

    Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

    Principles Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Learn to bring out the best in others by applying and adapting your leadership style and managing the conditions that drive team performance. 6 weeks, 7-9 hrs/week Pay by July 7 $1,850... View Details
    • Web

    Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

    Confronting Climate Change Food & Agriculture Innovation will reduce agriculture impacts and help farmers adapt The Green Revolution in the 20 th century dramatically increased crop yields and reduced global poverty by half. [25] These... View Details
    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details
    • Web

    Faculty & Research - Global

    competitors moving aggressively, Bessemer was at a crossroads: how much uncomfortable change to adapt today in exchange for more possible future upside? See all research Global Colloquium for participant-centered learning For senior... View Details
    • 17 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 17

      Working PapersThe First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures Authors:Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman Abstract This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2020
    • Article

    Taxation in Matching Markets

    By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
    We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,... View Details
    Keywords: Matching Markets; Labor Markets; Taxation; Labor; Markets
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    • June–July 2019
    • Article

    A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise IT Architecture and Evaluating Its Modifiability

    By: Robert Lagerström, Alan MacCormack, David Dreyfus and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Recent contributions to information systems theory suggest that the primary role of a firm’s information technology (IT) architecture is to facilitate, and therefore ensure the continued alignment of a firm’s IT investments with a constantly changing business... View Details
    Keywords: Enterprise Architecture; Modularity; Information Systems; Modifiability; Design Structure Matrix
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    • July–August 2015
    • Article

    Engineering Reverse Innovations: Principles for Creating Successful Products for Emerging Markets

    By: Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
    Multinationals are starting to catch on to the logic of reverse innovation, in which products are designed first for consumers in low-income countries and then adapted into disruptive offerings for developed economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets
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      New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth

      Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

      Most established companies face a... View Details

      • 2023
      • Article

      Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

      By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern
      Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Product Development; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Germany
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