Filter Results:
(981)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(981)
- People (2)
- News (235)
- Research (658)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (156)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(981)
- People (2)
- News (235)
- Research (658)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (156)
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
2013), the founder and CEO of the Chinese electric startup WM Motor, puts the personal passenger vehicle market at around 28 million. Chinese consumers bought nearly half of all electric plug-ins sold worldwide last year, with Chinese... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
programs is not trivial. "A CSR positioning that says either you are already fantastic or you are trying to be fantastic is a risky position," says Oberholzer-Gee. Such claims raise the public's expectations and make the company a... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
how to create culture. His work at Apple transcended business to marketing iconic products that consumers imbued with human attributes. iPod, iPhone, and iPad are more than technology. They are objects of desire. Jobs's legacy is a brand... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
game-changers such as e-mail accounts, intranets, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. "You might expect that advances in information technology would increase the number of people you could manage because it makes it... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
buying?" Tv And The Internet Pressure has been building for a merging of television and the Internet, said Intel's Eric Kim. Consumers now expect Internet service everywhere, with implications for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
replace student contributions as calculated by MBA Financial Aid Services, or borrowing for living expenses above the financial aid budget Debt incurred for non-HBS work in a joint degree program Debt from other degree programs Consumer... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
With Intention. “We want consumers to sync what they are investing in with their financial assets, with education about decarbonization investment opportunities in their own homes and cars.” She continued, “My husband and I have been... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services as well as information that assesses the relative value delivered by providers. Because the United States has competition in health care, we would expect to see improving value, but we see just the opposite. Value-based... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
international competition means we should expect industries to come and go. Even if this is sometimes painful, it is, in fact, a healthy process by which resources flow to their most productive uses. When a commons erodes, however, it... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
curation—showing competitors' prices—than would a company whose products and services are easier to evaluate. Call it enlightened self-interest. I don't think we can expect manufacturers and retailers to change in ways that will harm... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
implications. In this excerpt, they discuss how corporate managers should consider the interaction of open source and proprietary on software they develop and use. Implications For Corporate Managers Be sensitive to the lack of a ''right'' answer. There is no reason to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
and expects to be nationwide by the end of 2022. A pioneer in the creation of a new, community-based, green workforce, Terry’s goal is to train 1000 technicians - every quarter. ChargerHelp!’s future growth depends on two variables: the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
for the community was a profitable strategy: The company saw a 7.1 percent year-over-year increase in retail profits for the fiscal year that ended in June. Weckert isn’t going to predict that the coming year will bring the stability she had been waiting for, but she... View Details