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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-012 Planters Nuts (B): The Power of the Peanut No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516012-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
fundamental to what we do. We play at this very powerful intersection between consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. The more mobile phones, streaming media, and portable gaming evolve, the more time consumers are spending... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
customers and from outside the industry), decision agility (anticipating changes and turning even troubling trends into opportunities), and execution agility (building new capabilities, shedding what doesn’t fit, and taking the first... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding computer prices relatively constant... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
firms in industrialized countries, while the new study finds market orientation—where the interests of customers are placed first among stakeholders—is more central to the high performance Asian firms. The work also argues against a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
our purpose?” Cohen had spent 23 years at the happiest place on earth, most recently as a senior VP of brand, franchise, and customer relationship management, a role that gave her a bird’s eye view across the company’s vast commercial... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
press Journal of Applied Psychology Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact By: Kopelman, Shirli, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, and Leigh Plunkett Tost Abstract—This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
one of America's best-managed companies. By the 1990s, GE's Appliance and Lighting businesses required careful attention to costs given mature industries and highly unionized labor forces. Its Aircraft Engines, Power Systems, Industrial... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
media," said Keith Clinkscales (HBS MBA '90). As an undergraduate at Florida A&M, Clinkscales said he was exposed to the power of the urban entertainment culture and wanted to start a business that captured that energy. After... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
and Schrier’s successful volunteer effort evolved into a vision for a sustainable for-profit, social-impact company during HBS Startup Bootcamp in the winter of 2021. “We started with an idea for a solution, but we hadn’t had the opportunity to step back and dive into... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, sold $315 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on "EDLP" (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
end, we have to move to energy sources for base load electrical power—available whenever a customer needs it—and transportation that do not release new carbon into the atmosphere and yet are still economically acceptable to the public.... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
founder wants to take that model and replicate it in Brazil, for example, he needs logistics and financing infrastructure. Even if the demand for flat-panel TVs exists, he can't just go and do the same thing. The Vizio example highlights the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
quickly and cheaply than ever before. The reason? Tools are being developed that have more knowledge baked into them, meaning manufacturers don’t have to develop as much custom technology to compete. Sean Silverthorne: Can you explain... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
promising them seasoned managers and top-tier business partners; recruiting people by assuring them of adequate financing and powerful partners; and securing partners by explaining the power of the View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
who the customer is. Traditionally, leading companies—both in the West and in developing countries—have operated under the assumption that the world's poor majority—those four billion people on the planet with a disposable income of $5 a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
The track record is well known and sobering for any entrepreneur: 90 percent of all new ventures fail. It's not hard to see why. Start-ups often lack vital resources, must compete against established companies, and have little or no track record with which to woo View Details