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- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand Using guile, brilliant branding, and more than a few falsehoods, Helena Rubinstein lifted cosmetics from an accessory item for prostitutes to a great luxury product. A Luxury Industry View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
Even now, mere mention of Quaker Oats' acquisition of Snapple causes veteran dealmakers to shudder. For good reason. In 1993, Quaker paid $1.7 billion for the Snapple brand, outbidding Coca-Cola, among other interested parties. In 1997,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
relatively less discriminatory.” Why the initial disparity between Black and white enlistment? Researchers considered a number of possible reasons. Perhaps the discrimination that Black World War I veterans faced when they returned to the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
arrested, but LGBTQ+ people are incarcerated at three times the rate of straight people. Veterans are arrested at a higher rate than non-veterans. When we don’t focus on improving the fate of returning citizens, we are leaving a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
combination of the two formats. Similar to their daily v-meetings with the hiring manager, the new employee should also schedule daily check-ins with direct reports before moving to two or three times per week once deemed appropriate. Mentor: The new hire should be... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
negotiations, we are able to add even more valuable source material to our intellectual and practical treasury. For example, when you asked above about how to get the right parties involved to set up the most promising negotiation, we might have drawn on the experience... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
turned out that some players within the industry had been holding on to the old technology all along, too. Raffaelli recounts the story of Zenith, which, like many Swiss watch companies, decided to throw away all of its mechanical watchmaking moulds in the midst of the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
with open source communities to ensure the security and longevity of the components they depend on. Snyk co-founder Danny Grander, a veteran security researcher who heads the company’s security team, decided to lead by example and share... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
staffing, services, physical space, strategic guidance and more — are popping up in the private sector almost as fast as the dot.com companies they hope to hatch. They're pulling in veteran entrepreneurs and established Internet players... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
charity. [related readings] “It’s a way to clearly communicate that ‘We are unique in the space,’” Choi says. “Here’s what we are and here’s what we aren’t.” More traditional organizations have also been opening up. The US Department of View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
the storm. For seasoned leaders, the most applicable are Lessons #5 and #7, "Never waste a good crisis" and "Go on offense: focus on winning now." So often the go-to strategy for veteran leaders when a crisis strikes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
Sponsors Have A Lot More To Lose Than Long-term Investors. Lenovo, as a first-time global sponsor whose future depends heavily on success this year, has much more at stake than veteran Olympics sponsors such as Coca-Cola, Visa, and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
new it's just that direct production-to-distribution opportunities are creating a blurrier line about what and where content is." Lucchese and Oberholzer-Gee were joined by music industry veterans Mark Kates, the founder of Fenway... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807175 Turnaround at the Veterans Health Administration (A) Harvard Business School Case 608-061 Investigates the challenges that Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer confronted in seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
conversation with a barista. Starbucks introduced new store formats like Express to try to cater to this second segment without undermining the first. But many Starbucks veterans have now switched to Peets, Caribou, and other more... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand for housing outstrips supply—a conundrum familiar to United... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
could finally afford to buy their domiciles. The definition of home shifted. A home became an anchor, a stake in the community. Veterans from World War II seized upon the FHA and VA mortgages to sink roots into the middle class; one... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
directors needs to be thinking about it as well. Triple bottom line is coming whether all shareholders like it or not.” When should a board encourage a triple bottom line philosophy? What do you think? Original Column Since becoming CEO of Microsoft in 2014, 25-year... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
and a thirty-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry in East and West Africa, said that while it is unlikely that many governments will suddenly find more money for fighting AIDS, they must focus the resources they do have. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
"Selling tickets isn't where the money is," says Higgins, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, a veteran venture capitalist, and an owner of the Portland Pirates hockey team. "Sports media content is such a big... View Details