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  • December 2007
  • Article

Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

By: John W. Pratt
Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details
Keywords: Price; Management Practices and Processes; Valuation
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

J. Hughes Norton III

It's early on a June morning at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, the day before the U.S. Open golf tournament. Only practice rounds will be played today, but already groups of excited spectators are trooping up the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons

    Angela Q. Crispi

    Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the execution of the School’s strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the... View Details

    • 26 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 26, 2016

    a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Senior leadership is crucial here. We discuss the importance of leading in a consistently inconsistent fashion. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

    four-drive ecosystem Acquire/Achieve On the organizational level this drive is usually met through the compensation and rewards system. Best practices include: Pay as well as competitors. There can be exceptions; the need to acquire... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • March 2021
    • Article

    Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment

    By: Kris J. Ferreira and Joel Goh
    Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple... View Details
    Keywords: Assortment Optimization; Retailing; Imperfect Information; Sales; Strategy; Consumer Behavior
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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Preparing Global Leaders

    Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details
    • September 2025
    • Article

    Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

    By: Ryan Raffaelli and Ryann Noe
    This study reveals how incumbent actors leverage physical place as source of differentiation in response to the threat of digital commoditization. Through a longitudinal, qualitative analysis of the U.S. independent bookselling industry from 1995 to 2019, we outline... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Place Making; Bookstores; Industry Evolution; Digital; Commoditization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Distribution Channels; Civil Society or Community; Value Creation; Retail Industry
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    • 17 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 17

    style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 28

    they cannot spend on marketing the way their competitors do. The case invites students to explore an unusual business model in both concept and execution. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609106-PDF-ENG Pfizer:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Jul 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

    Because pricing is such a difficult and complex arena, it has confounded sales and marketing executives and scholars for centuries. In no other marketing element is the two-sided conflict and cooperation... View Details
    Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
    • 07 Mar 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

    What are the practical applications of your research for companies in networked settings? In particular, what is the role of marketing in an environment with strong network effects? A: Our research provides... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
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    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    top U.S. health administration schools and a recent article in the Lancet, our educational systems focus their curricula on isolated,theoretical subjects, such as analytics and quantitative problem solving, rather than the team-oriented, View Details
    • 04 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

    (Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Recent news... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
    • Web

    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Runner-up for the 2024 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Corporate Finance for "The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation" with Matthias Regier (April 2023). Charles C.Y. Wang : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024... View Details
    • 22 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 22

      PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract The recent collapse of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Feb 2013
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    First Look: Feb. 12

    charcoal and fuel wood. Antitrust Scrutiny of Google Authors:Edelman, Benjamin G. Publication:Journal of Law Abstract I evaluate antitrust claims against Google and propose possible remedies. While Google's specific tactics are often novel, I show connections to View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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
    • 25 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Ewa Sletten; Accounting
    • 08 May 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Ramesh Johari, Stanford