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- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
for CEO Tim Cook. Responses to this month’s column provided a range of advice that centered around whether or not product security is as important as some other features of the Company’s strategy. Since the Government’s request for help,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
in-store, but rather by rebalancing its own revenue sources. Realizing that its manufacturers have the most to lose if customers can't try out their wares in store, Best Buy has begun charging shelving costs to electronics makers in order to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from contemporary art to View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
mutual funds also impact the propensity toward other contractual features that influence when and how creditors have control. However, these factors are less relevant in explaining the strength of restrictions on indebtedness, liens,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice the number of the second... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculinity in the workplace. A resulting working paper, "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Male Identity," not only explores how organizations influence the way men enact their gender, but also looks at how "organizational View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
which refers to a study that includes all phases of a product’s lifespan, from the extraction of raw materials to the product’s end-of-life disposition such as landfill, incineration, or recycling. Lifecycle assessments can be stand-alone... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its mindset in terms of what the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
tourism, and potentially resource extraction from places like the moon and asteroids. In many ways, those ideas seem very sci-fi. But technology is well-developed for several of them, and it’s more about finding the right business cases.... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather the company compensates these individuals for the resources these better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
able to tell to the second how the airing of a particular ad affected both the number of people visiting an advertiser's website, and the number of purchases they made there. Next, using 22 important features of ads (including a... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
llSource: iStock Think that probably inappropriate Snapchat selfie is safe from leaking into your professional life because it disappears? Think again. Features on some communication apps like Snapchat and Instagram Stories allow you to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
compete on the basis of brands and reputation, and in sectors where companies' products significantly depend upon extracting large amounts of natural resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-035.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
if any, should be made to adapt to a chosen market. Given high levels of piracy in the music industry, students are not only able to explore the value creation aspects of AKB48, but also the value-capture features of its business model.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Must-have features of yesterday are today's can-live-withouts. Trusted brands are especially valued and they can still launch new products successfully, but interest in new brands and new categories fades. Conspicuous consumption becomes... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
as not only do they affect the business environment that managers face today but they also hold important lessons. An important feature the cases reveal is the cyclical nature of international capital flows. Global Capital and National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace