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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
"Nobody outside India understands what that means instead of going to a dealer and taking a vehicle and going home, you had to make a booking, and your turn would come probably after ten years," said Bajaj. At one point the Bajaj...
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- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
Shivaratri Snan bathing day on March 10. To accommodate everyone, the Indian government creates a temporary city-building roads and providing power on what is normally an empty flood plain. Senior Lecturer...
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- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
On important occasions, we gather for family portraits. If you were to take a picture of your family business today, what would it show? Family businesses represent the aspirations, achievements, and struggles of View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
traditionally earned their biggest margins when rooms were scarce and customers were forced to pay higher rates—such as in Midtown Manhattan on New Year's Eve. And it's good news for travelers who don't have to pay through the roof to get...
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- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
desperate as the day of reckoning approaches. They flood the airwaves with negative ads, especially in closely fought states like Pennsylvania and Indiana where the margin of victory was as important as who wins. Political brands, on the...
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by John Quelch
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
sign of a healthy board, but that's not how the market interprets it," says Khanna. "The caveat," he adds, "is that prices on the Chinese stock exchanges don't always move the way we'd...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
the case materials, lectures, guest speakers, and application workshops: First, you must understand the externals in your business and their impact on required sales tasks. Value is created or destroyed in the external marketplace, not in...
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- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
and I had collaborated "telepathically" for years. I'd always liked John's perspective on leadership, and I think he more or less appreciated what I was doing, so our working together to develop...
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by Staff
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
had tremendous implications, some of which we see here. In exchange for these cool games and services, users have to give up their data and I’m not sure consumers always appreciate the extent to which their data is collected and is...
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- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
Summing Up Why Not Turn "No Surprises Management" On Its Head? If "managing up" with a "no surprises management" (NSM) philosophy is popular, "managing down" with NSM makes just as much sense,...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
without having their economies fall apart. On average, such countries don't do nearly as well as liberal democracies; but there's still a mystery in that they're not doing as badly as the economists and political scientists would have...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a...
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- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
you elaborate a little on why this is important? A: Frankly, this always the case regardless of whether they operate at the TOP or BOP of the pyramid, except that at the top, there are enough agencies...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
always self-sufficiency on the part of the funded entity. "When we exit our investments, over a 10-year period we've helped an organization get from one level to another...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online and off, into a flurry of...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
School US Competitiveness Project has pointed out, has an adverse effect on wages and competitiveness. Of course, there is always a catalyst for a sudden downturn on markets....
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by Jim Aisner
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1). They explicitly prove Theorem 1 for preference domain R0 which requires that the null object is View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
and personal marketing, sort of one-to-one-to-one, the customized approach, as opposed to the broadcast media that were the mainstays of advertising in the early '90s. They always have to think about this work in the context of a broader...
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by Mallory Stark
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
The following articles were the most read pieces on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2012. Now two questions for you. What do you think was the most important business issue of the year? Fiscal cliff? China's slowdown? Also...
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by Staff
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Jack Bogle was preppy, Princeton to the core, feisty in defending his beliefs. But he was always a gentleman, modest in his needs, and generous with his wealth so that his estate will not be found on any...
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