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  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jul 2013
  • News

The Two-Minute Game that Reveals How People Perceive You

  • 08 Jan 2015
  • News

Healthcare strategy 2015 — Back to the basics: 12 key thoughts

  • January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Zaoui & Co. (A): Consigliere for High Stakes M&A Transactions

By: Ashish Nanda, Alex Kitsberg and Zack Kurtovich
In September 2019, Zaoui & Co.’s close-knit team of professionals convened for their annual off-site. In its nine years of operation, the boutique investment bank founded by the brothers Michael (HBS ’83) and Yoel Zaoui (Stanford GSB ’88), had garnered a track record... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firm; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Strategy; Investment Banking; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • 05 Jun 2019
  • News

When Customers Want to See the Human Behind the Product

  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

management. While acknowledging the growing entrepreneurial demands on leadership, others also recognize the need to simultaneously defend "sustainable competitive advantage." The concept of ambidexterity championed by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 1 PM – 2 PM EDT, 10 Sep 2015
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

America's Unconventional Energy Opportunity

In this session, Professor Michael Porter along with co-authors David Gee and Gregory Pope from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will discuss the research HBS and BCG have jointly conducted on the opportunities and challenges presented by the United States'... View Details
  • March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
  • Case

Dell Online

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Market Transactions; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

  • 07 Jan 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss of privacy is a natural product of the information age and has been under way for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Sep 2011
  • News

Environmental policy globalisation means better reporting

  • 18 Sep 2015
  • News

Better Value in Health Care Requires Focusing on Outcomes

  • 30 Oct 2015
  • News

Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?

  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

remarkably well.—Nancy F. Koehn In Part Two, to appear in the April 23 update of HBS Working Knowledge, Koehn discusses the remarkable brand power created by Estée Lauder, Howard Schultz, and Michael Dell.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Oct 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

McMillon’s decisions on the basis of the new criteria proposed by the Business Roundtable. The scale is the time honored F for failure up to A for high excellence. As a Walmart shareholder, what grade would you give Doug McMillon? Why?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 2013
  • Government Testimony

American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

By: Michael E. Porter
The Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access held a hearing titled, "American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter spoke at the hearing,... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Competitiveness; United States
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  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

©iStock.com/GuidoVrola The bundled payment idea is part of a larger reform proposal called Value-Based Health Care Delivery, based on research by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?

apparently equal applicants." Anshu Vats expressed his enthusiasm by commenting, "If revealing the students' grades leads to an increasingly competitive classroom, great! Welcome to the meritocracy." Others were more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education