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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
differentiator was their sense of being able to make progress in their work. The authors also observed interpersonal events working in tandem with progress events. Praise without real work progress, or at least solid efforts toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
differential access to care and socioeconomic disadvantage that has led to a greater burden of chronic diseases. It is an uprising against a racialized, predatory capitalism that through neoliberal and neoconservative agendas has gutted... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
currently spending the bulk of their money outside the Internet media market. WPP's Sorrell notes that "in the last twelve months, branding has become more important than ever, because it provides a way to differentiate all the new... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Culture by Dee Ann Turner (AMP 176, 2009) (Elevate) Businesses are built by growing relationships with customers, and culture is created by the stories those relationships tell. Two of a business’s most important differentiators are its... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
both longs and shorts following losses and a weaker tendency to add risk following gains. By differentiating between position level, portfolio level, and aggregate cross-portfolio losses in currency investments, we demonstrate that this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
learning from them and differentiate between basic, complex, and intelligent failure. Highlights Intelligent Failure Experimentation and Iteration Show Hide Details Concepts Failing Well Intelligent Failure Basic Failure and Blameless... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
appropriate data. The U.S. film industry deploys two distinct allocations of property rights, which differentially affect marginal returns on a particular class of investments. In many cases, films are both produced and distributed by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
evolution of the industry through the introduction of key service elements like flight attendants, in-flight meals, and loyalty programs. Each of these service elements, which are common today, was introduced as a key differentiator by a... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
effects that early career history has on the development of leaders? A: Baxter and Abbott Labs provide a good lens through which to gauge the differential effects of early career imprints on leader development. One reason these two firms... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
countries, and that smaller countries have a differentially higher response to these benefits. Further, economic ties with the European Union are a particularly important source of network effects. The results, robust to numerous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Empirical tests of these key theoretical predictions have been relatively sparse due to the lack of appropriate data. The U.S. film industry displays two distinct allocations of property rights, which differentially affect marginal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
organization's strategy. Almost all companies want to grow revenues and reduce costs, so the objectives in the Balanced Scorecard's financial perspective are fairly generic across organizations. What differentiates the companies is how... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
global by applying innovative growth strategies at home. Rule 2: Always bring something new to market. Without an element of novelty, it will be difficult for retailers to overtake entrenched rivals. Rule 3: Differentiation is more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
2011 Abstract The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
differentiator he sees for space startups: the ability to generate income while they wait—possibly for many years—for the technology and capital to catch up to their ambitions. Planetary Resources’ Arkyd line of spacecraft, a sort of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
that agents experience reduced demand for service failures due to stockouts, but not for service failures due to network downtime, suggesting that consumers differentially ascribe responsibility for service failure based on the type of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
offerings to maintain differentiation from copycats. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512065-PDF-ENG Citibank: Weathering the Commercial Real Estate Crisis of the Early 1990s Julie M. Wulf and Ian McKown... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
heartburn, advertising may do more harm than good. Silk: Keep in mind that the use of DTCA by pharmaceutical companies is quite selective in that it tends to be concentrated in a relatively small number of therapeutic classes. The informative and persuasive views of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls