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  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

explores the emergence of "air taxis," a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that have come on the market recently. "The economics are such that entrepreneurs believe you can have an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

characteristics and director networks are also associated with deal generation. We find that a company that has a director who has had LBO experience through prior board service is approximately 40% more likely to receive a private equity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

fashion industry creative director at predicting the future fashion trends and tastes of consumers. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517115-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-100 1436: The First Pure Chinese View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • December 1999
  • Case

Sendwine.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Charmaine C Ess and Ann A. O'Hara
Sendwine.com, an online retailer of premium gifts of wine by the bottle, faced decisions about its growth strategy in mid-1999. Mike Lannon, president and founder, had established his company as a prominent player in an increasingly crowded field. But with success came... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Luxury; Diversification; Internet; Web Services Industry
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  • 09 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

"Stores no longer have the soul of the past and reflect a chain of stores vs. the warm feeling of a neighborhood store." Starbucks tried to add value through innovation, offering wi-fi service and creating and selling its own... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

that covers all the procedures, tests, drugs, devices, and services involved in inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitative care for a patient's medical condition. For chronic conditions and primary care, a bundled payment is a single... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professors Jim Heskett and W. Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Published: October 6, 2008 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

supply it with oil, gas, metals, and other primary materials. A slowdown in China could impact some of these emerging markets pretty hard. Capital has quickly flown out of them, hitting their currencies and equity markets. Europe is less exposed, though some specific... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 10 Jan 2007
  • HBS Case

The Challenge of Managing National Security

urgent action, it enjoyed the luxury of time, relatively speaking, to find its new identity. By contrast, the intelligence community's national-security imperative puts great pressure on it to change immediately. Consider the challenge... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

committed. Even if they had wanted to sell in chain stores, the Lauders could not afford the large sales force necessary to service such outlets.  Because she wanted to reach women who did not necessarily have much experience with makeup,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

strategy would be a very risky move Ryan Raffaelli: We often define radical innovations as "competency-destroying," meaning that they render all related products and services in the same market category obsolete. While the Apple Watch is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

economy began to improve and the livelihood of many Chinese rose with it, their tastes began to change. Exposed to more luxurious foreign brands, many Chinese strived to purchase a Swiss or Japanese watch. How could Fiyta build up its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

  Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

Services (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with his staff and patients and how the provider team focuses on patient care. A key measure of productivity for the surgery center is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA), Web 2.5-enabled economy. We show that a trio of forces of digital disruption—specifically the disintermediation of the services of instructors and facilitators, the disaggregation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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