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26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

for Refugees. Some forecasters expect the number of forcibly displaced migrants to climb to 1 billion as climate change makes more parts of the world uninhabitable. “They will affect you. They will affect me. They may be you and me, as... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

started to rise, climbing 49 percent in the next decade to nearly 2,500 stores nationwide. The resurgence has lessons for other industries. “Indie bookstores have defied the odds,” Raffaelli says. “What happened in this sector has... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

that they waited too long to develop good habits for honing their skills or for thinking deeply about what they wanted. Does any of this sound like you? Are you making the most of your capabilities? Do you feel as if you're on someone else's path? If so, is it too late... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000 items, with that number climbing... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

startups that found further success in the market—are rare, and mainly involve companies purchased for their intellectual property. Lessons for universities The study’s findings are significant as university research expenditures climb to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

tobacco competitors, will probably start climbing in price and eventually become equal to tobacco brands. That could create an even bigger windfall for tobacco producers. Even if electronic cigs are regulated like regular cigarettes, they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

were really losing their share for software patents compared to non-software inventions,” Kerr says. The ripple effects of invention Tech clusters, it turns out, are also important for non-software related patents, with those areas of invention View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

use gatekeepers to impose stringent controls on care—were resisted by patients and physicians. In response, the managed care organizations began relaxing their controls, allowing patients more freedom to see specialists and out-of-network doctors. Costs began to View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

is a perfect example of "how a British prime minister reaches the top of the greasy pole" by climbing the political system and serving as postmaster general, minister for health, and chancellor for the exchequer before becoming PM. He was... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

were in a new world where high tech ruled. We got to hear outlandish claims that stocks were riskless. The Dow did climb past 11,000 in the next few months but then went nowhere before crashing in September of 2001 and then again in 2002,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

example, often mask narrow but important pain points—areas of major dissatisfaction—such as unhappiness with poor customer service or long wait times. They can also mask backsliding against competitors; while gently climbing satisfaction... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

revised version to ensure it could not justify discrimination against gay and lesbian customers. But the results of a CEO climbing into the bully pulpit don’t always work out as intended. As Chatterji notes, “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

organizations to climb the value chain and access higher-margin businesses with powerful incumbents. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609024 PublicationsGender in Job... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

complain about labor shortages. Immigrants held low-paying occupations then and now. These occupations include construction, household services, and agriculture. This allowed native-born individuals to climb the “quality ladder of jobs.”... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

more than just school buildings, teachers, and textbooks. In much of the developing world, the poor lack faith that changing their lives is possible; few believe in the existence of a social or economic ladder that, with the proper education, they could use to View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-043 Learning How to Honnold Alex Honnold is the world’s most accomplished free climber. To many, climbing sheer vertical faces of rock—like the famed El... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s retail practice, she successfully grew their high-margin yet highly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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