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- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
for the platform to better monetize their relationship with the users,” explains Farronato. Giving less-well-known sellers a boost Improving search functionality also boosts visibility for less popular products and sellers, particularly... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- News
Alabama's Yella Fella
Yella Wood. He also created the "Yella Fella," a crime-fighting cowboy that Rane portrayed in television commercials. Each ad, broadcast across the South, functioned as a mini-episode. Each of the four seasons ended on a cliffhanger, to... View Details
- 07 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination
- September 2019
- Case
Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)
By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India
Edmondson, Amy, Ranjay Gulati, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-058, September 2019.
- February 2008 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Avaya (A)
Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Performance Improvement; Relationships; Sales; Cooperation
Godes, David B. "Avaya (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-048, February 2008. (Revised April 2008.)
- 12 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer
Keywords: by Anette Mikes
- 17 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- 2020
- Working Paper
Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?
By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
Silk, Alvin J., and Ernst R. Berndt. "Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28161, December 2020.
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General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
key to its robust development. Q: What lessons can operations managers take away from your research? A: There are a number of lessons we think are important for operations managers: Many functional and business leaders have become... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Baron Rajeev Shah Amit Patel Business Track Runner-Up TrialBridge develops Internet and software solutions which allow clinical trials sponsors Social Enterprise Track, 2003 Gyaana Raj De Datta, HBS Arvind Krishnamurthy, HBS Social Enterprise Track Winner Eliminate... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
says later in his office. "But Fahey already has 14 direct reports. And do you always want a centralized position to report to the CEO?" Maybe reporting to Global Media makes sense, one student suggests, if the position is considered View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
Dietz, who didn’t realize that children saw the company’s MRI scanners as cold, scary chambers of misery until he visited a hospital and saw for himself. The machines created enough fear and tears that many kids needed to be sedated. The scanners were View Details
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
Entrepreneurs Prepare for leadership roles after working as an individual contributor or functional specialist. "I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I... View Details
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
behind other industries. Although recent emphasis on “meaningful use” of IT has expanded the health IT industry, its functionality has been limited to being excellent revenue cycle tools in a fee-for-service based delivery system. The... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
family. These groups all need their own good leaders to function well. So you can see that a family business system leadership team could number four or more people: a leader of each governance forum plus an ultimate leader. The business... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
coconut water and pink Himalayan salt, with lemon juice and stevia for flavor. Seeing a big opportunity on her hands—an effective, functional product with cleaner ingredients than anything on the market—Picasso left her job at Jet.com to... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
enough. With kidneys, for every five people that receive a transplant in the United States every year, one person dies waiting for one. We’re working on two solutions. First, we need to get better drugs that allow organs to function... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley