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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

cuts that eviscerated core services such as street sweeping and litter-bin collection. The results were both predictable and unpleasant: a “visibly filthier” city, to use Tisch’s phrase, and an exploding rat problem. The funding and... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 14 Dec 2007
  • Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

availability, delivery, shipment quantities, payment terms, and all the other services that accompany the core product. Marketers must use their imagination. As the saying goes: "There are no mature products, only mature... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

services. Firms whose customer demand for their core products and services has decreased need to find new customers for new products and services in segments experiencing steep increases in demand. Thus, Dyson, GM, Ford, Volkswagen, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

which provide resources that the School can put to use immediately toward core priorities, such as financial aid and faculty research, and promising new ideas and innovations. Discussion with Dean Datar This session featured a... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

the best decisions on what new functionalities and services to build and enhance. They should always look first for those functionalities/services that enhance and enrich the core functions they already perform as they offer the highest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Agglomeration and Innovation

Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
  • 2013
  • Book

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society
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Ehrenfeld, John, and Andrew J. Hoffman. Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability. Stanford University Press, 2013. (Finalist for the 2014 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management.)
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

study of companies’ formal statements about their cultures reveals that most don’t proclaim concepts related to individuality as core values. Only 22 percent listed “diversity” as an official value, only 11 percent listed “creativity,”... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

design process. This design rule is easy to state, but it is difficult to follow for two basic reasons. First, some core production technologies are less amenable to applying the rule than others. Second, organizations have a tendency to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

out why a handful of organizations are able to achieve true excellence. One of several things they all do is hire for attitude and train for skills. By "attitude," they typically mean the ability to identify with and "live" View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

strengthened so frustrated managers don't fall back on their own silo-protecting skills. Last, the capstone of all this work, and the point where the need for resilience is greatest and the greatest resilience is achieved, is connection: shrinking the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

it's a core platform. Digital delivery of content to the cell phone didn't exist a few years ago, and now it's everywhere. You go six months, and it's two generations. That's something I would love to exploit in the future. Just what do... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
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Financial Aid - Alumni

fellowship budget How You Can Help The easiest way for donors to ensure that the School remains accessible to all students regardless of their financial means is by giving to the HBS Fund . As our annual fund, the HBS Fund supports core... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2022
  • Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

between explorers and startup entrepreneurs? Michael Tushman: These explorers have the energy, passion, drive, and perseverance to go against the core part of the organization to do this reinvention of IBM or Analog Devices. It also takes... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

indicates the number of compute cores (e.g., RStudio-05G). For a given application, select the appropriate memory footprint for your analysis. For example, you can select 5G, 10G, or 20G when running R. See our Guidelines for Choosing... View Details
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Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

By: Michael Beer

Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

  1. Capacity of the... View Details
  • July 2018 (Revised January 2021)
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RunKeeper

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how venture capital can distort a founder’s view. It encompasses issues such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage Funding; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Health Industry
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Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "RunKeeper." Harvard Business School Case 819-020, July 2018. (Revised January 2021.)
  • January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
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Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning
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Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning." Harvard Business School Case 315-052, January 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
  • 2010
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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Simons, Robert L. Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.
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