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- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
2.5 weeks). Count the petals, are there really 60? Image source: The authors. Five years ago, the brothers started to test the optimal intensity and spectrum of LED lighting on rose cultivation in an experimental site, recognizing that... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
managed centrally. This level of control is conducive to protecting the organization's brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of control might be particularly desirable when the program being... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of recovery as she was forced to take... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
known, unknown, and potential competitors. In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
were being carefully monitored and measured. Design and production problems should be worked out off-line, in a lab setting without customers, before the service delivery is tested in a live environment. —Stefan Thomke To select and... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
an opportunity to visit Syngenta Tomato Vision, a 150,000 square foot greenhouse and demonstration center located in Maasland, the Netherlands. This facility opened in May 2020 and focuses on testing thousands of tomato varietal crossings... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Harvard Business Review Putting Sales at the Center of Strategy By: Cespedes, Frank Abstract—Research indicates that relatively few firms execute their strategies effectively, and, on average, companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
learn some lessons from the limited success of current approaches to design their strategy in this exciting area. Do You Really Want to Be an eBay? Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
comparative consumer product reviews since 1936. The publication ranks competitive brands according to quality, based on in-house testing and customer surveys, and publishes the products' retail prices. "Decades of data, just staring... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
example, in my first semester Technology and Operations Management class where we studied a New Zealand yacht racing case, I used my experience from doing a churn reduction model for a South African Telecom operator to recommend whether the protagonist should View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
decision support tool for Rue La La's daily use. We conduct a field experiment and find that sales do not decrease due to implementing tool recommended price increases for medium and high price point products. Finally, we estimate an increase in revenue of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
propositions represents a market test and signal of what consumers want. Q: Consumer marketing appears to be drifting away from mass market advertising to more targeted approaches made possible by the digital world. Is political marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
by high levels of ambition and values or leadership behaviors at companies." Johnny added, "Neuromanagement will be based on electronic testing however it will not detect 'will-power.' It is our will that determines how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett