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30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

pricing model ($0.99 per tune) that held for years. In retrospect, do you think the music companies missed the boat to rethink their digital music business at the very start? Are there lessons here for other industries faced with the same... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

in Philanthropy, who willspearhead the effort along with Allen Grossman, Bloomberg Senior Lecturerin Philanthropy. But a new understanding is emerging: these dollars, whilecharitable, are still capital investments of precious resources."The question then becomes:... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

spending and confidence as well as new competitive forces on Starbucks' transformation. The case concludes by examining Schultz's own leadership journey, the lessons he learned personally during Starbucks transformation, and how he is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15602 PublicationsSeven Lessons for Leading in Crisis Author:Bill George Publication:Warren Bennis Series. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2009 Abstract Seven Lessons for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

information in a way that benefits themselves,” says Exley. “That’s discouraging to economists; we think one of our primary tools is information.” The lesson for nonprofits That result may be discouraging to the nonprofit sector as well,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

executives in Harvard's Entrepreneur, Owner, President (EOP) program. During that time, she realized that many of her students hadn't spent much time thinking about their own companies' strategies. In this excerpt, Montgomery describes a View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects the work they do—now published... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

do not have access to the drugs or drug makers do not receive a fair reimbursement, panelists said. Lessons Of A Lemon-aid Stand But differences are as much cultural as regulatory. Cultural differences favor entrepreneurship and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

firms don’t even draw down the entirety of their credit lines,” says Kim, “They only draw down 55 cents for each dollar. So just having the option of borrowing more can spur growth.” Lessons for small businesses everywhere In searching... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

Stereotype That Holds Women Back When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/XH4D View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

stakeholders, including the patients these charities are ostensibly designed to help,” the paper says. You Might Also Like: Can Amazon Remake Health Care? Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize Lessons from COVID-19: The... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

the lessons of the past are being used to educate the business leaders of the future. Why Employers Favor Men Ruth comments: The race factor is important to be considered. In Latin America I have seen quite often that white men prefer to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

entrepreneurial opportunity, a lesson from which U.S. automakers could have benefitted years ago. This should be the case at least up to the point at which shorter term costs become greater than industry or society can bear. Anything up... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

2009, pp. 78-84. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2005) Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason (Boston: HBS Press, 1989) Charles S. Jacobs, Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

not just to share anything that would benefit your political party if it were true.” The findings provide a key lesson for companies that advertise and share content on social media to gain a following: Sharing high-quality, accurate... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

Reading: Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal Creating a Global Business Code What do you think about this research? Have you been unjustly punished for the sins... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

financing, it won’t impede recovery as much as if all debt comes due at once. Steinwender and Garicano’s findings also hold lessons for governments wishing to provide loans to companies to fill the gap. Since not all companies are equally... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

outside opportunities appear, one lesson should remain to the fore: The more you focus, the easier it becomes to channel and make the most of your resources. Once your business begins to sprawl, it becomes much harder to direct your... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

there lessons from the past that could be used for guidance? A: Clearly there will be areas such as infrastructure, health care, education, clean technologies, etc., that will get a boost because of investments and demand from the public... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Large numbers of entrepreneurs are self-deploying in this space and will be, and large amounts of capital are being deployed and will be. More companies are finding themselves trying to solve public problems. There are a lot of lessons in... View Details