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  • Web

Health Care Initiative - Health Care

within the health care sector. The Health Care Initiative impacts managerial practice and the pace of innovation by educating leaders and innovators who aspire to improve value across the health care industry. The Initiative fosters and... View Details
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

quasi-autonomous units within a mega-agency or holding company have become an essential component of conflict policies. Subject to the protection against security breaches afforded by safeguards, rival... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

lot of the dynamics within the sector." Thinking about creating and managing networks might help them focus on their social cause in a very entrepreneurial way. Instead of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January–February 2014
  • Article

IDEO's Culture of Helping

By: Teresa Amabile, Colin M. Fisher and Julianna Pillemer
Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the highest-performing companies, it is a norm that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Behavior; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

rising importance of selling within corporations was the fact that something like one-quarter of the chief executives of the top 200 industrial firms in 1917 had spent part, or all, of their career in selling. Arthur Vining Davis, who had... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 20 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

model helps measure that." The Ideal Mix When planning marketing campaigns, brand managers have a wide portfolio of weapons to draw on, including in-store merchandising, advertising, coupons and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

damages the brand," he says. "Anytime a company makes a foray into outlets, they are going to gain in the short term but damage brand image in the long term." To... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail
  • Blog

Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

people within the firm. Step 4: Find a Network to Support Your Board Journey Tap into your network to identify peers who can give you objective,... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

very fast, agile. They attract people who play around with crazy ideas." The idea is to bring back that agile, experimental, silo-free network. Under his new system, everyone works within a traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Fishbowl: Scaling Up

By: Leslie K. John
Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technologies; Customer Value; Value Chain; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Advertising; Product Marketing; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Social Media; Communications Industry; Employment Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

should managers know most about self-regulation? Michael Toffel: A growing number of firms are expressing concern about the societal aspects of industrial activities. In the 1990s, most were focused on the activities View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

harness the network effects that previously had protected the incumbent. We present a typology of envelopment attacks based on whether platform pairs are complements, weak substitutes, or functionally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

VP of Marketing and Events I’m a first-year student at Harvard Business School and my primary focus within DAAG is developing comprehensive branding and awareness of the group... View Details

    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

    Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
    • 29 Jan 2018
    • Book

    How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

    initial best option for extracting the miners. At that point, no expert considered rescue of the 33 men a reasonable possibility. Nonetheless, within 70 days all of them would be alive and reunited with... View Details
    Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
    • Web

    California - Global

    the brand license to extend into adjacent subjects? Which areas were the best fit for the app’s growth, and how quickly should they roll out? And what were the long-term benefits and risks to new subjects View Details
    • 18 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 18, 2016

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51714 Harvard Business School Case 517-035 Dwyane Wade In July 2016, while on his annual China tour to help promote the sportswear brand Li-Ning, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade and his... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 28

    one of the world's largest airlines, United had a very large fleet and hub-and-spoke network that provided passengers with a wide range of destination choices, but as with any... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Aug 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

    After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a well-publicized end during his two-year... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
    • 29 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 29

    university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne