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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Powerbrands and high growth categories and to nurture the Powerbrands with innovation and roll them out globally. The Powerbrands had steady double digit growth year over year, attracted a devoted customer base, and typically grabbed high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
of declining, she must decide whether to continue her focus on the alarm clock category or to branch out into new categories. If the former, the question is which segments to pursue and what features to develop, and, if the latter, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
presents special strategic and tactical challenges. (See the sidebar "Linked Negotiations" for descriptions of three categories of such talks.) This article focuses on "birds in the bush"—situations in which, like Jim,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- Web
Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before, during, and after the course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program are added to the HBS Online... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple products during a season and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and limited coverage of product categories and countries. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54121... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
"This is not like Field of Dreams, where if you build it they will come," Quelch says. "There are distinct categories of consumers, each of which needs to be addressed in a different way." By using a marketing-based... View Details
- Web
1.5 Attendance | MBA
include: A lower course grade. A designation of a Category III or a Category IV for an egregious amount of absences, especially unexcused absences, unreported absences, or a combination of the two, when the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
this category has lower performance along traditional metrics but offers new benefits around convenience, customization, and simplicity that fit squarely with a customer's behavior patterns and priorities. The business model supports... View Details
- Web
Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before, during, and after... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
“display set” of visible but unavailable options can exert these same types of influences on whether or not to choose a single (target) item. Across a series of experiments, purchase intent is increased when the display set and target are drawn from the same View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
organizing a large pool of capital, investing at scale, and generating VC-style returns. By effectively anointing category leaders and deterring competitive entry, would the Vision Fund accelerate innovation or undermine the market forces... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
otherwise." In the cases of umpires and ministers, Parsons's work falls under the broader category of incentive research. "They are about what causes people to behave in predictable ways, and how that changes over time," he... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes—and impacts subsequent choice—such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than attributes grouped... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
racism rather than a critique of categories of race.” In this multimedia work, Jackson employs color and collage to investigate the value of human life in public space. The silkscreened documentary images and photographs are from her... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
of his time in his kitchen and focusing on one or two confectionery categories like most pastry chefs, he chose to work on diverse projects and leverage his reputation as a winning competitive chef to experiment with tastes and achieve... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins for the indispensable View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard