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- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
on financial controls, not on risks to consumers and brand reputations. That's not good enough" Even marketers who pay special attention to safety are reluctant to tout their superiority. You never see... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
they have made more money than they need, in the process of building their private enterprise," he says. "Maybe they didn't intend to make millions or even billions of dollars. So they start wondering what they can do to put it to good... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
monitor? The answer may determine whether you'll play the wimp or the hero in your next office meeting. The body posture inherent in operating everyday gadgets affects not only your back, but your demeanor, reports a new experimental study entitled iPosture: The Size... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid "silos" they're organized around. In Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilient companies prosper both in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Summer 2018
- Article
Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating
By: Willy C. Shih
Knowledge embedded within state-of-the-art production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through... View Details
Keywords: Product Design; Product Commercialization; Product Development; Product Development Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Tools; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Engineering; Globalization; Goods and Commodities; Knowledge; Commercialization; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North America; Asia
Shih, Willy C. "Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating." Art. 59420. MIT Sloan Management Review 59, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 53–58.
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
products and brand. Standardized, branded condiments, the entrepreneur realized, would be affordable to large numbers of urban Americans. These goods would also be appealing. As cities expanded, fewer households had access to their own... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
marketing during the dot.com bubble are gone, and that's a good thing. The basic idea of incorporating more consumer control in your value proposition for better responsiveness is quite independent from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
electronics company Philips; the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk; the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura; and the U.S.-based technology and aerospace company United Technologies all come to mind. All have done a very good job... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
PublicationsBuy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down Authors:John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract You've got a good idea. You know it could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
mass of consumers and producers. “If I was a tech company, I would sponsor every single hackathon I could find.” The researchers used an innovative dataset to show that the social environment of hackathons can solve a number of problems... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and the more specific topic of bounded ethicality—the systematic and predictable ways in which even View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
looks like a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers and the predominance of low-involvement entry-level jobs. But are sufficient numbers of entry-level employees ready for self-management? And is management ready? The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-053.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract We use highly disaggregated data on trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
are on average exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups from financial economics,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
money has been collected, eBay sends the gift, along with the list of all contributors and short notes from them, to the recipient. This application generated three types of immediate benefits for eBay. First, the average price of Group Gift View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
Editor's note: Behavioral economist Max H. Bazerman decided to pursue the subject of noticing after realizing that he wasn't very good at it himself. "The truth is that I was truly terrible at noticing," says Bazerman, the Jesse... View Details