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- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
at Harvard Business School. “It was better designed and nicer to use.” However, when Amazon released its Kindle e-reader three years later, it included an important feature: a connection to wifi that allowed readers to download books more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 04 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance
- September 21, 2013
- Other Article
Redefining Global Health-care Delivery
By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best... View Details
Keywords: Health
Kim, Jim Yong, Paul E. Farmer, and Michael E. Porter. "Redefining Global Health-care Delivery." Lancet 382, no. 9897 (September 21, 2013).
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
off by the original products’ cost. In August 2021, the company dropped the original bike’s price to $1,495; the treadmill that was still on the market cost $2,495, with a similar name but not the higher price of its recalled sister product. Longtime View Details
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Compensation Committees
you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details
- Program
Advancing Women of Color in Leadership
participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your... View Details
- Program
Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your... View Details
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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni
find job opportunities in a startup. SucceedSmart Designed for the discerning HBS alumni, SucceedSmart's advanced career platform is tailored for executives. It combines AI-driven precision with elite career opportunities, all while... View Details
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
choices: (1) nudging users through banner design to encourage acceptance of cookie tracking; (2) setting defaults when users dismiss banners; and (3) implementing consent... View Details
- 24 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?
examined roughly 1,500 part-time workers who indicated that, if circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. 22 percent of respondents said gaps in resumes prevented them from finding work. 28 percent cited years of View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- Program
Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
centered around virtual connection, our programs reflect the input and experience of tens of thousands of participants. When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction program, for example. But your books... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- May 2025
- Case
Boutiqaat: Influencing Retail in MENA
By: Juan Alcacer and Noor Al Qadhi
Boutiqaat, a Kuwait-based e-commerce platform, scaled an influencer-driven beauty retail model across MENA and now faces critical strategic choices about offline expansion and globalization. Founded in 2015, Boutiqaat combined social commerce, localized logistics, and... View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
More Information HBS Working Knowledge Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? By: Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik More Information HBS Working Paper Series Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'? Organizational View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
competitive advantage. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to understand and improve the design and management of systems in which people make decisions: that is, design and management of negotiations,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
Drop it on the ground. Sprinkle water on its surface. Let it sit in the sun and expose it to swarms of dust—the XO laptop is designed to handle most any abuse from a child. But the journey of the XO laptop from concept to the educational... View Details
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies
By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy
Guadalupe, Maria, and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies." December 2009.
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
collaboration, with Francine Katsoudas, executive vice president and chief people, policy, and purpose officer, and Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer. How better integration within the corporate stack improves flexibility. View Details