Bottom Up Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

"The fans don't realize the weaknesses existed even during the good times," he told an audience of Harvard Business School students and faculty members on Tuesday. "The team was never as good as it was made out to be in an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 May 2013
Blog Post

Reflections and learnings

that consumer. Some people do it through focus groups, others make it up as they go along. But there is a fierce legion of people who understand that the best place to know what she wants, needs, is delighted by, is to be right there with... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

18 May 2023
News

Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

high school, they would have up to 10 years to use the scholarship money for additional education. Some might choose apprenticeships, others trade schools, and still others two- or four-year colleges. Even more than money, Wilfong wanted... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

two key questions that leaders must address to keep the mission on course while still making enough money to sustain that mission: One, whom should you hire to strike a healthy balance between idealism and the bottom line? And two, what's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
News

Breaking Free from Fear of Change

pride themselves on perfect performance can become emotionally paralyzed at that point, and that can stall their careers. So the flying-without-a- net metaphor is aimed at liberating those people, opening them up to a new sense of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

financial models for the big banks, I was trying to figure out where I fit in. Optimizing operations through a consulting project seemed right up my alley, but I didn’t want to spend my energy helping corporations exceed their View Details

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

development. The reformers' challenge has been to demonstrate that corporate attention to human misery is perfectly consistent with maximizing wealth: that there is, in the words of United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan, "a... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

Rule Five: Face The Music Finally, many judo strategists begin with good intentions but end up exhausting their resources on losing battles—especially in the Internet era, as new technologies and competitors create better ways to compete.... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2014
News

Team Players

HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

22 Feb 2022
News

Turning Point: Ready or Not

cousins and my nieces and nephews the endless love and attention I always enjoyed. Being unprepared for that shift is an understatement, so I ask myself: What would my grandmother have done? At some point, she was thrust into the same... View Details

Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Summing Up How best is denial managed? Denial is endemic to management. It is a natural part of human nature, closely related to the survival instinct. It can be useful or disastrous. And it can be managed. That sums View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

are presently clustered in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is Slovakia—with its 19 percent flat rate—that has captured the world's attention of late, says HBS professor Laura Alfaro. Why? What are the goals and complexities of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

and systems, I'd lose the finance side." On the subject of finance, she emphasizes, "The bottom line is that the Olympics - especially when they're privately funded - are a big business in which you're trying to make a profit. Some people... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

to prop up the print book business by upping the price of e-books, Olson says. Some companies even hope to introduce parallel pricing by selling e-books at the same price as the edition (hardcover,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

What do you wish business people would do more? This was not really surprising. I mean, people want—people are really, really interested in business doing more than paying attention to their bottom line. And... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

out brochures himself. With the financial backing of the Levi Strauss Foundation (made up mostly of Haas family members) and with additional resources, management advice, and advocacy support coming from the company, each Project Change... View Details