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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
"shaped" by many things—colleagues and friends, homes, climate, culture, and even our machines and gadgets—as well as our jobs. As he put it, "We are the product of a set of genes and their interaction with a myriad of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
agreed there weren’t many retailers in the market with knowledgeable staff who took proper care of the products in order to deliver an exceptional experience. He knew he could build a company to fill that gap in the market. Linzmeyer... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
so that vast amounts of data can be captured and analyzed in order to improve the allocation and use of natural resources. Working with Microsoft and Cisco, Living PlanIT is doing this through its Urban Operating SystemTM—a unified, distributed, real-time View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Chapter
Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature
By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
King, Andrew A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature." Chap. 4 in Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives, edited by Magali Delmas and Oran Young, 98–115. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
was to focus not on the feasibility of the solution but on the attractiveness. With a full portfolio of potential solutions we set back out into the field, creating rudimentary prototypes to elicit reactions directly from refugees and IRC caseworkers. When testing in... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated firms that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
especially Black women, are the most educated segment of the population, and that's according to the US Census. We control some one and a half trillion, with a T, trillion dollars in consumer spending. Studies by American Express show... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
would have you, and themselves, believe in how 'hard' they work it's about productivity in spite of how workers report about how hard any of us 'feel' we work." TNoble101, arguing for better economic justice for overtime workers,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11% increase in current retailer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Viagen: Revolutioning the Livestock Industry (TN)
By: David E. Bell, Mary L. Shelman and Eliot Sherman
Teaching Note for [507021]. View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
help users compare product prices, keep track of their purchases, and store information. For example, a music buff who has conveyed information about her online CD purchases to Ticketmaster could be notified when one of her favorite... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
brain called the amygdala. This area processes sensory stimulation before it reaches the conscious part of the brain. If the amygdala perceives a threat, it boosts the production of adrenaline, increasing the heart rate and creating other... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
they would not try to be all things to everyone. In most businesses, it is common sense to develop products and services that create unique value. For many hospitals, developing uniqueness is a significant change in mind-set and deciding... View Details