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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to drive demand Identify sources of competitive advantage through... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Pricing, product customization, and service customization cannot be entrusted to either group alone. The impact on economics, the whole account base, and corporate strategy require an integrated approach. At the small account end, the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
efficiency, as it will benefit your organization now and after the crisis has subsided. Pivot to new opportunities Some companies pivoted immediately to address the crisis, motivated by the need to generate new revenue streams as well as... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
not see their role ‘as an enabler of direct public participation in decision-making through formats such as deliberative meetings, and do not believe there are personal benefits for investing in these activities.’ And yet if society is to... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
heartache, enabling us to enjoy long healthy life spans and the benefits of our multi-generational families. Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985), founder of Circle of Life Partners, will facilitate a conversation that has been one of the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified portfolio at all horizons. By contrast, an increase in the cross-country correlations of discount rate shocks has a much more muted effect on portfolio risk at long horizons, suggesting that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared, but its days are numbered. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles has spent his academic career burrowing deeply into the arcane subject of corporate reporting—not the hottest of business topics. At least not until now. With the publication of One Report:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
percent outsourced. “We are absolute converts,” he said, citing the benefits of cost reduction, quality, and flexibility. The end of a contract is always a new opportunity to make improvements, demand more, and reprice. If IT workers were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fish... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management. Specifically, I was interested in measuring the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
to appeal to young would-be smokers. But corporate distrust runs so deep for some consumers that constructive dialogue is virtually impossible; consider vaccination skeptics who criticize Big Pharma’s influence, despite considerable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
orders to our community partners, benefiting some 1,000 poor families. Zobel de Ayala How have you incorporated corporate social responsibility (CSR) into the company’s mission? CSR has always been at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
recently endorsed by the faculties of both schools and approved by the Harvard Corporation, will admit its first students in the fall of 2008. Upon graduation, they will earn degrees from both schools. “Students in this new program will View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for locations that gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne