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- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The American system as defined in this note can be contrasted against the lack of developed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
you to consider which methods scale well in the modern workplace, and which will not. Let me give you an example. We used to talk about “managing by walking around.” This informal way of managing through observation and casual interaction... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
business solution designed to enable line managers and executives to convert data to information to insights. The case also details how the company partnered with an emerging technology start-up, Netezza.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
"mountain of treasure." Dresser sought Komatsu's design technology and a cash infusion for plant modernization and capital expenditures. Komatsu hoped to become a successful global player, so it wanted better North American... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-120.pdf The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis Authors:Andrew A.King and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract Technological advancement and innovation requires the integration of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
ones the private sector has decided they can’t solve on their own. The problems can be harder and more widespread. Lagace: What is an example of a public startup? Weiss: James Geurts, who started SOFWERX, was responsible for buying and deploying all the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, breaking down barriers and building bridges between communities, and voting and civic... View Details
- July 2022
- Teaching Note
Arçelik (A), (B): From a Dealer Network to an Omnichannel Experience
By: Ayelet Israeli, Fares Khrais and Menna Hassan
Arçelik Turkey, the country’s market leader in household appliances, was at an omnichannel crossroads in January 2020. Arçelik was a B2B player utilizing a dealership network with an umbrella of brands and had one of the largest brick-and-mortar store networks in... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Bricks And Mortar; Franchise Management; Franchising; Dealer Network; Dealers; B2B; B2B2C; Tradition; Culture Change; Cultural Adaptation; Omnichannel; Omnichannel Retail; Omni-channel; Omnichannel Retailing; Sales Channels; Sales Channel Development; Channel Management; Channels Of Distribution; Marketplace; Platforms; Collaboration; Online Channel; Online Data; Online Sales; Online Shopping; Online; Retail; Retailing; Disruption; Transformation; Franchise Ownership; Change Management; Partners and Partnerships; Consumer Behavior; Sales; Internet and the Web; Marketing Strategy; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Organizational Culture; Distribution Channels; Digital Transformation; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
came to this country chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School." When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
of society can be better met without these taxes, and though research continues to consider reasons why it may be justified, capital income taxation is generally viewed as inefficient. One concern probably less familiar to nonspecialists is that our tax system fails to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
to give our clients immediate access to cutting-edge solutions and technologies in the field. How must organizations change to remain competitive in the new economy? Organizations need to transform themselves in several ways, and they... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines, so leaders use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) satisfying... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his plan was to place View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Publication:Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 475-499 Abstract As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption energies, moving from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2017
- Teaching Note
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
This is the teaching note to accompany Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez, and Matthew G. Preble, “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” HBS No. 517-007 (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017). View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- February 2017
- Case
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), faced a rapidly changing sporting goods landscape in October 2016. Two large competitors—The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet—had folded earlier that year, and DKS had to contend with increasingly robust... View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
of an organization than the people in the middle and on the front lines."—Lynn Paine The team noticed key differences according to who authored each code: Those written by business practitioners generally emphasized the company's financial View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel