Escape - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

book of five years ago, Blue Ocean Strategy, to check my recollection of what the authors had to say about the role of the customer in fashioning a strategy that would enable an enterprise to escape from red, blood-strewn, competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

America’s more than $1 trillion in student loan debt. Indeed, some college graduates with student loans have not secured employment sufficiently remunerative to meet their financial obligations. Others are struggling to escape a heavy... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

05 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

board, however, the outside directors should show their independence by filling the separate chair position with non-executive boardroom leadership of their own choosing. This is an effective solution to a pressing problem that continues to View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

specialization. Consider one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. His experience defines what it means to transition from outsider to insider. He came to this country at age six because his parents were trying to escape the oppression... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

to the Ground Navid Mojir and V. Kasturi Rangan “The case tells the story of Dell Technologies and its efforts to revitalize its value proposition and escape a commodity trap by acquiring EMC for $67 billion—the largest tech acquisition... View Details

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

them pot in a cookie, they have no problem with it." The potentially high price of retail marijuana, however, leaves frequent recreational users in a bind. To escape price inflation, they could grow their own pot at home, but that's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

research. What's more, firms that correlate their international trading activity with the local ethnic community significantly outperform those that don't—a fact that has escaped notice of financial analysts. The findings could help Wall... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

invite all people to escape reality. You Might Also Like: Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions (Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'? How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

market within two months of the product's release. Next, Yoffie and Cusumano advise, firms need to be flexible and give way when attacked directly by a superior force. "No matter how quickly companies move," says Yoffie, "they can't View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

seeking to pioneer radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past, these cases show, to renew itself for the future. [...] A New Lens On Growth One company that has used an... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

partisan perception and then avoided any reasonable challenge to this view. Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar under Former President Clinton and President Bush, made a compelling case that the administration never escaped... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

the technology brands such as Intel or Microsoft, which are likely to escape the new mood. The second group is the cultural icons such as Coca-Cola, Disney, Marlboro, and McDonald's. These brands depend on emotional attachment rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

So it was with great interest that I looked over the results of a recent small, unscientific survey by McKinsey of what CEOs were reading this summer. The most frequently mentioned book somehow had escaped my attention: The Seventh Sense:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

insights into foreign policy, statecraft, and world order have been widely discussed. Yet surprisingly, until this book, his impressive achievements as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range of approaches—from proxy votes and demands for Board seats,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

much new construction." For his part, Furber characterizes the market as "frothy," which warrants caution but not retreat. "There are always interesting opportunities out there, even in a frothy market." Even retail, the hottest performer in... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

observers are both looking back at what we've accomplished so far and looking ahead to what the future brings. The Harvard Business School faculty hasn't escaped this phenomenon. Plans have been made for a survey that will ask two... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of... View Details