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  • 29 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

advantage. To find out what works, Teixeira went directly to consumers, partnering with the MIT Media Lab and Waltham, MA-based Affectiva, which has developed the first online facial tracking system for testing advertising. The research... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination to achieve pragmatic View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

society in developing altruism? What is it about our current society that drives a large share of the population to be scared of other countries, and to be willing to shut down to the world and not open itself to it? Why is it that people... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

the world. If my goal had been to explore the historical roots of consumer protection, the U.S. case would have been a natural focus. German companies have been able to excel in highly engineered products in part because German consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

technical and academic writing over the past decade has focused on mergers and acquisitions, which are typically negotiauction situations. But one of the main messages in the book is that the deal strategies and structures that have View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

health, the process is a bit like throwing a lasso around a tsunami. That's why integrated medical data has now become a major goal of health care reform. Integrating patient records, such as physicians' notes, diagnoses, medical device... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under which myopic policies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its mindset in terms of what the firm was good at enabled it to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2014
  • HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

spoken natively; the supervisors speak the other 2. To bridge the gap, the mining industry long ago adopted the use of Fanagalo, a pidgin language developed in the nineteenth century so colonists could communicate with their servants.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

challenges of multi-site nonprofits and the facilitators and barriers to effectiveness of various multi-site, nonprofit structures. The goal of this research is to develop a framework to aid social sector... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

reduce them. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-012.pdf Thinking about Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change Authors:Sarah Kaplan and Mary Tripsas Abstract We apply a cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

introduces the product in China, he wonders if the product will be as successful as InMobi anticipates. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-020 Indigo Agriculture Indigo Agriculture had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

congressional committee chairmanships? Joshua Coval: Our original goal was to investigate how politically connected firms benefit from increases in the power of their representatives. A benefit in focusing on changes in committee... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

goals, past research on these programs' impact has yielded mixed outcomes. Our goal is to understand why this might be the case. Design/Methodology/Approach: We rely on interview, archival, and longitudinal survey data to examine young... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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