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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
also mind the gap over time. When UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc. and FedEx acquired Kinko's, they helped to mind the gap for growing e-commerce sales deliveries. Neither firm can compete with the post office on individual residential... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
108-006 In November 2006, Symon Bridle, the newly appointed chief operating officer of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, was thinking about a number of organizational issues that presented challenges to Shangri-La's rapid expansion strategy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
gradually entering the vernacular. “I wrote four business plans while in school,” says David P. Perry (MBA 1997), who was a finalist that first year and went on to implement his plan upon graduation. Perry’s start-up, Chemdex, rode the dot-com roller coaster and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
Case 112-702 On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
extremely competitive market conditions. That doesn't stop many retailers from trying. Indeed, grocers like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Kroger, Safeway, and Stop & Shop give back 1-2 percent of the total spent to their card-carrying shoppers. Stores in other... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
preparation offices were given the option to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds in addition to existing Block savings products. The fraction of filers who did any savings at the tax-site was 8.5 times higher at these treatment sites offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
they were still getting funding. And I think that Michelle and I, as we as we were going through this process, it became clearer and clearer that even though you were hearing that no one was starting businesses, people actually still were. And so we were sitting in an... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
fellows do, with rare exception, is quickly mainstreamed into the life of the organization,” says Levy. So if the Leadership Fellows program provides benefits that most young, high-powered MBAs crave — access, impact, and leadership opportunities — it also satisfies an... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
examine whether centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to better employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
individuals to relationship-based businesses. Learning Objectives While each of the many courses in the Entrepreneurial Management unit addresses different functions within the field, all of them share four learning objectives:... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
see, or rather what they will experience, will change as the technology evolves. There’s an anecdote IBMers share at Watson’s gleaming new headquarters on Astor Place in the East Village. One day, a boy named Kevin walked into his... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
leaders, the authors found that introverts can be better in unpredictable, changing environments where workers are proactive about sharing their ideas. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/the-hidden-advantages-of-quiet-bosses/ar/1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders lacked such an understanding, and he would like to do something... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and so forth. Considers the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace