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How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma

By: Tom Nicholas
In 1993, four years prior to the publication of Clayton Christensen’s highly influential book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, the Business History Review (BHR) published an article by Christensen titled “The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of... View Details
Keywords: Clayton Christensen; Impact; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Research
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  • May 2009
  • Article

Customer-Based Valuation

By: Sunil Gupta
Customer lifetime value (CLV) has emerged as an important metric to manage and grow customers. Marketing scholars have written many books and articles on this topic. However, most of this research has focused on tactical marketing decisions. While this is important, it... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Valuation
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  • 23 Dec 2019
  • News

What weighed on us in 2019? ‘Climate emergency’

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Oral History and the Business History of Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Oral History; Corruption; Business History; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Asia; Africa; Latin America
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  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

Inside-Outside Leaders Author:Joseph L. Bower Publication:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007) Abstract This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Comunale Abstract— This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

avoiding these traps that snare others? A: In the article I point to success stories from a number of companies including IBM, Seagate, Williams-Sonoma, P&G, and Gillette. Using the Innovation Pyramid model to accelerate innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Helping at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile

This research focuses on collaboration and helping in creative project teams. Colin Fisher (UCL), Julianna Pillemer (NYU Stern School), and I developed a multi-year research program examining help received and given, including successful and unsuccessful helping... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Helping; Creativity; Creative Industries
  • November 2, 2015
  • Article

The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Daniel Weinfurter
Companies typically spend more on hiring in sales than they do anywhere else in the firm. Average annual turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Salesforce Management; Retention
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  • 06 May 2012
  • News

Businesses brace for Greek exit

  • 01 Nov 2012
  • News

The Idea That Led to 10 Years of Double-Digit Growth

  • 11 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 11

shadow banking system-are outweighed by the risks inherent in this new approach to credit delivery. 2006 Harvard Business Review In Search of a Second Act: Riding the Popularity of a Great First Product Is Easy; Finding the Next One Is Hard By: Ofek, Elie, and Jill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
    • Web

    Lifelong Learning - Alumni

    articles from back issues. You also qualify for a discount on subscriptions to the print magazine. Harvard ManageMentor A wide range of videos, discussion guides, and related articles on 40 topics will help... View Details
    • 02 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

    forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews By: Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal Abstract—This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure of the Securities and Exchange... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Talking Past Each Other?: Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Cognition and Thinking; News; Conflict and Resolution
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    • July/September 2005
    • Article

    Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale

    By: Rawi Abdelal
    This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; International Finance; Globalization; France; European Union
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    • February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
    • Case

    InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
    Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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    • 04 Mar 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    Do People Want to Work Anymore?

    published an article that laid out two human resource strategies that we labeled the “cycle of success” and the “cycle of failure.” Our late colleague at HBS, Christopher Lovelock, wisely suggested we later consider the term “cycle of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Winter–Spring 2024
    • Article

    Grand Bargain: Negotiating Toward a Better Middle East

    By: James K. Sebenius
    How can sophisticated negotiation bring about a more peaceful and prosperous Middle East? While a "grand bargain" to accomplish this lofty goal may seem implausible, the potential value of such an agreement would be vast for most Israelis, Palestinians, and key... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; War; Conflict and Resolution; Israel; West Bank
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