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- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
brand heritage as "a dimension of a brand's identity found in its track record, longevity, core values, use of symbols and particularly in an organizational belief that history is important." The Nobel Prize Heritage Quotient These five... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
be considered at the core of the meaning of a "market-based society"? And what professional organization would be able to define and enforce, presumably by delicensing, such a code of ethics? On the other hand, are we already... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
notice of this trend. The Fortune “Change the World” list identifies companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that create positive social impact through their core business strategies. The CECP (formerly the Committee Encouraging... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
firms compared to non-founder firms. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1663905 Cases & Course MaterialsTennant Company: Innovating Within and Beyond the Core Lynda M. Applegate, Toby Stuart, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
She backs it up with extensive research, much of it her own. Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, builds her book around the “five core elements of rebel talent.” They are: Novelty... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
requires a total change in organizational identity. Moving from an environment that is adversarial to one that is co-creating value with customers requires a company to carefully coordinate systemic changes in many areas—from defining its View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
business through informal personal networks, Advanced Technology, for example, has established dialogue groups as its core tactic for achieving diversity. These groups give employees a forum in which to examine their biases and engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and for much of that time, Facebook's stunning growth—more than 1.2 billion users worldwide—has been the story. That said, the core Facebook functionalities have remained essentially unchanged... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
almost universally employed in the US and increasingly elsewhere, even though the forms it takes ebb and flow. But now questions are being raised about whether pay for performance at its core is fatally flawed or at least misused. Mihir... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
(September 2009): 90-95 Abstract As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
others. This chapter reviews research on how these biases manifest themselves in the core processes of organizations—that is, how people are hired, compensated, developed, and evaluated—all of which are aspects of organizational life that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
success as it continues to expand its product line into handheld devices like the iPod and, now, the iPhone? The Apple case originally appeared in 1992 and has been rewritten 5 times since. "The company always looks a little different, yet many of the View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
many brands have hits and misses when they extend beyond their core franchise. Richard Branson, for example, has done very well with Virgin airlines but other Virgin ventures, such as Virgin Money and Virgin trains, have performed poorly.... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
the end of the program, students will take an exam administered at any one of 4,000 testing centers worldwide to receive a certificate from HBS attesting to their mastery of the content. Unlike most MOOCs, which follow a traditional course format of lectures and tests,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
cross-section or over time. Among the most stable elements in a platform architecture are the modular interfaces that mediate between the platform and its complements. These interfaces are even more stable than the interior core of the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
has Apple had such a difficult job growing beyond the Mac? A: Apple is a computer company, and Jobs has always understood that his core franchise was very closely connected to the core computer franchise.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
stay focused on the company's core competence, i.e., developing superior search solutions and monetizing them through targeted advertising. Another option is to branch into new arenas, for example, build Google into a portal like Yahoo or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
more specific activities in which there is a significant two-way value exchange. The organizations' core capabilities begin to be deployed and the partnership is more important to each other's missions and strategies. It is no longer... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace