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- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
their toes, and start moving. Instead, they hold back or complain if others initiate new action, with the result that a needed change effort doesn't start or doesn't start well. Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
we think about everything," he remarked. "Information technology has to march in lockstep with business," agreed Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir. Software that automates complex transactions and expanding customer service on the Web are... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
we find it difficult to identify the tangible benefits delivered by brokers. While brokerage customers are directed toward funds that are harder to find and evaluate, they pay substantially higher fees and the funds they buy have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
same day, and Aaron was able to meet with her that afternoon. Over the next four weeks, Aaron’s initial conversation evolved into a series of email exchanges and meetings with Barry’s executives, including its CEO. Aaron had planned on... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
joint vision and problem-solving process, information sharing, and generally moving away from the “lowest common denominator” pricing issues that had defined their interactions previously. From 1987, when Muccio initiated the changes, to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
ice-cream fountain boasts a marble counter, and customers eat 100 percent buffalo burgers in a walnut-paneled dining room hung with original oil paintings by Western artists. In another part of the store, there are 1,400 historical photos... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Faced with accepting $20 million less than anticipated from the stock offering, she told the class, the company never hesitated. It had chosen to go public in mid-2000—after two years of existence and two quarters of selling its Visor handheld computers—to establish... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the experience was a huge success.... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
flows between markets and prices of risk become more closely aligned. While prices in the directly impacted market initially overreact to the supply shock, we show that prices in related asset classes underreact under plausible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
value network, compared to the reactive posture they have taken in the past. Finally, we have seen a pervasive pattern in every industry that has been transformed through disruption. This same pattern characterizes what has happened to date with disruptive View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals
(HBS 2021) to raise money to purchase PPE for local Boston Hospitals. The Beginning Our initiative started in late March with an MBA student, Sophie Bai (HBS 2020), and an HBS professor, Jeff Bussgang. Having witnessed the spread of the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
then fixing it when the need changes." Kamal Gupta's comment implied that the affluence that enables customers to spend for unused functions may have something to do with it. As he put it, "(Disruption) is already happening in... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
at the bottom of the pyramid so it makes good business sense — not a sense of do-gooding — to go after it.” Today, market forces, private-sector know-how, and grassroots initiatives such as microfinance are all being looked to as tools to... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
consolidated and centralized all key functions, while their "My Macy's" initiative focused on customizing the offerings of individual stores to local markets. By 2011, Macy's had many advantages,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
because luck prevails. Piketty (1995) had shown that a similar pattern could arise from standard preferences if initial beliefs about the relative importance of effort and luck in generating income differed across the two societies, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
activism are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not detectably different from zero for targets that remain independent a year after the initial activist request. Announcement returns show a similar pattern.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details