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- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
original price of the clock from $50 to $39 in order to spur sales, knew she needed to extend the existing product line or venture into new product categories in order to grow the company successfully. "This is another lesson for... View Details
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes. Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership,... View Details
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
in very liberal counties,” according to the paper. “A majority of financial backers for typical Kickstarter campaigns live more than 50 miles away from the creator they support, tending to reside in big cities like Seattle and New York,” the researchers note. Drawing... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
fortunately for the owners, had been hiding in a shed all along. "At that point this old employee returns and says, 'I preserved all the dies and technical drawings, and I will reintroduce them to you,'" Raffaelli explains. "The View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
for advertising, he told his colleagues that the Web "makes an enormous amount of sense for certain categories of advertisers. But we're never going to be out there selling Internet ads for Pampers." Less then twelve months later, Pampers had become one of... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
involuntary loss of knowledge in an organization. The type of organizational forgetting occurring now is creating more problems. Instead of relying on the lessons learned from two years of COVID-19 crisis management, organizations are... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
company to be "more like Target"—that is, more differentiated—even though this move doesn't fit particularly well with Wal-Mart's existing locations or capabilities. Lessons From The Past History also provides perspective on the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
witnessed? A: There is a fruitful dialogue underway between people negotiating business, legal, and financial deals and their international counterparts faced with life-and-death negotiating challenges. Each group can learn important View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
another group, and so on. This allows the financial burden to be spread more evenly across employees. Many firms believe that keeping employees on payroll will leave them better positioned to take advantage of the eventual upturn. This is a View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
practical lessons for business managers? Jones: The bottom line for practitioners in developing countries is that they need to really see corporate reputation as a huge asset. It enables their firms to more fully utilize existing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
you individually." Use these conversations to set up next steps. For example, if your team has learned valuable lessons that could provide benefits to other areas in your supervisor's domain, offer to facilitate some cross-team... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
she was far happier and that the company was operating much more effectively. She admitted that she was a bit amazed that the "fixes" were so easy. Passion For What You Do: Achieving Sustained High Performance Perhaps this story seems simple, and its View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered by managers serve as View Details
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Understanding Customers
In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. Thus formal processes or forums for discussing, analyzing, and applying the lessons of failure elsewhere in the organization are needed to ensure that effective analysis and learning from... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
multiplies. Kost: What lessons do you hope executives will take from your book? Teixeira: That the game has changed. In the past, there were a few big companies competing with each other. Coke versus Pepsi. Airbus versus Boeing. GE and... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
Stagflation? A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
development evolved over time through the practice of economic engagement and developmental aid in the Third World. Ideas and policies that originated in the West were transplanted to developing world contexts, and often transformed; and in some cases, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman