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- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
life of an early-stage business. When a situation is declared code red, startups should know who’s on point for communication with each stakeholder, who’s leading a process and how each process will be led. Also, plan for retrospectives... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Recruitment and selection are now more important for various reasons. Due to the data and analytical tasks facing many sales forces, productivity ramp-up times have increased. Each hire then represents a bigger sunk cost for a longer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
investigate whether government green procurement policies stimulate private-sector demand for similar products and the supply of complementary inputs. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
Norton says. "With consumption, rituals seem to work because they increase your involvement in the experience." Employee Morale And Productivity Later this year, the researchers plan to study how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
simple guideline, that every 10 years or so, expect a major disruption. So you need 6 months cash on hand to weather it.” Larry recommended contingency planning. As he put it, “Operational contingency plans are unlikely to be helpful. But... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
competition. PepsiCo used litigation to protect its marketing strategy by successfully asserting that a former marketing manager who left to work for a competitor would inevitably use trade secrets for directly competing products if he... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
restructured operations to make them more efficient, and sold off older, less productive ships. “Some of that weeding out of less-efficient capital may have happened eventually, but this really accelerated that process,” Gilson says.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53587 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
transformation. In accordance with the shift in strategy, Microsoft needed to come up with a viable go-to-market plan that would align its new commercial strategy with sales, partners, products and services,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
People - Advancing Racial Equity
Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Special Projects Jen Eliason Associate Director, Diversity and Inclusion Alex Hirs Senior Advisor, Programs and Initiatives Andy Martinez Coordinator, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Alicia Thomas Director, Diversity and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
greenhouse gas emissions. There’s also rampant waste and pollution involved in making the clothes we wear—two-thirds of which, after being jettisoned from our closets, get tossed into landfills or incinerated. Shifting from that linear economic model—from View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
positioning. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain—the series of activities required to produce and deliver a product or service—that enables a company to offer... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
consequences of climate change more vivid, intuitive, and useful. Collaborating with scientists, designers, technologists, and other concerned generalists like him, Glendon founded Probable Futures, a nonprofit initiative that aims to change how we think about, talk... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
of Research in Marketing 29 (2012) Abstract We examine the underlying process behind the IKEA effect, which is defined as consumers' willingness to pay more for self-created products than for identical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
on a number of products and services including health insurance plans, generic versus brand drug choices, copays and medication use, mobile phone plan choices, and even better methods for farming seaweed.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after a 12-year absence, the company he co-founded was dispirited, rudderless, and near bankruptcy. In a staff meeting, Jobs shared his plan for revitalizing the struggling brand, touching on one... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman