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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
such a protected market into a wide-open, hypercompetitive environment is a very difficult process.” Today’s headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
about hedge fund managers and private equity managers raking in billions while decimating companies and destabilizing markets more than we worry about whether the CEO of Ford took home a few paltry millions while actually running a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
protection against business exigencies: should the market go south, they don't want to be permanently stuck with new costs. The vast majority of employees, in general, also want pay-for-performance, Beer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
is new and there's no way I could execute without my first year at HBS. From go-to-market planning in Marketing to understanding how VCs and term sheets work in The Entrepreneurial Manager course, I am applying my new MBA skillset every... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
for yourself, how buildings can have an impact on our health, and how leaders can have an impact on today's biggest issues. A list of the titles, authors, and their abstracts are included below. American Business History: A Very Short... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
Texas, with Dell computer. And during my years at Dell-- I was there about eight years-- I worked in marketing and e-commerce. I had a couple of overseas assignments but always loved exploring. And in fact, living overseas a couple of... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
too little on the actual behavior of mere humans, which is beset by "bounded rationality" (limits on the complexity we can deal with) as well as our limited self-control (inability to resist "temptation"). They advocate the use of "choice... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the science, who the competition is,... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
business due to price increases because of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Van den Ende brothers shared their plans to implement geothermal heat pumps for the greenhouse within the next two years in order to reduce and then eliminate the use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
product and service experiences that exceed customer expectations and the offerings of competitors. What's the secret? Success in business as well as magic has less to do with clever marketing and more to do... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick sides between Team Chloe and Team... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
innovation is less likely to occur." Brian Donahue warns that "an assessment of internal controls by management at a point in time is not effective because the organization—and thus internal controls—have already changed to meet the demands of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details