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- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
shark populations, which results in an ongoing decline, according to the 2013 study Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks. The extinction risk is considerably higher for chrondrichthyan fishes – sharks,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
nimble as any start-up. Rule Four: Look For Leverage In The Strangest Places In order to exploit leverage, you have to critically examine your competitors' greatest strengths and find opportunities to turn them into sources of weakness.... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
If marketing is a profession, and I hope it is, then I suggest there are five rules that marketers should not follow in the interests of self-respect and respect for the profession. It pays to pander. No it doesn’t. It’s unethical, but also unwise, to View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 30 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie
students take away a sense of the major forces that will determine the business and economic future of the African continent. I hope the gain a sense of the opportunities and a sense of how to exploit these opportunities, informed by the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
a community of scientists beyond the firm's boundary. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-012.pdf Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
mid-fifteenth century. Founded with the hope of driving exploitative moneylenders out of business, the monti charged only enough interest to cover administrative expenses. The account books give details of the items that borrowers brought... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding computer prices relatively constant and View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
damage to Apple brand equity among its core customers. After heavy blogging complaints about Apple exploiting its loyal followers, Steve Jobs had to apologize publicly (after a curt "That's technology" response fueled the fire)... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
between getting today’s work done and innovating for the future. Highlights Innovation Streams Identifying a gap Open Innovation Show Hide Details Concepts Welcome to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Exploit and Explore... View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
transformative. “I feel like I have a superpower,” she told me. “I am my own boss. I make my own schedule. I can’t express how important this is. I now have time to take care of my son, and he is the reason I immigrated in the first place! I’ve traded in View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Course Number 1180 Professor Vincent Pons Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Course Overview This is a course about exploiting the opportunities created by... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
go unanswered—they're often unasked. Starbucks forces [independents] to stay on their toes, get creative, exploit their advantage of being more nimble.— Bruce Milletto,consultant Randall L. Tobias echoes Beville's sentiments. Before he... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets encouraged large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to its social mission? If yes, an investment may empower the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
firms are well-governed. The actors in various corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, and Parmalat, were expert in exploiting the dual-tax system to manufacture accounting earnings. Corporate tax shelters that reduce book income are... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Complicated Firms Authors:Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
authors write. “They require new mind-sets, creativity, and — most important — the ability to envision how the business can exploit the changes that are under way.” By providing a theoretical framework for scrutinizing existing projects... View Details