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- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
Summing Up Is the Potential Negative Impact of New Information Technologies on Customer Loyalties Overstated? Customers will remain loyal to brands that meet their needs, regardless of the effects of new information technologies View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
(Editor's Note. Carl Icahn is in the news again. On Monday, SEC filings revealed the militant investor has sold his entire stake in eBay, after successfully pushing the company to spin off its PayPal operation. Harvard Business School... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
percentage of cost savings. Or, a contractor might be paid more for finishing a job early. There are many variations to performance-based pricing including penalty clauses. But, the idea is always the same. Base your price View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
"With $4 million, Coke may get $40 million in people's time and attention over the course of the year," says Teixeira. The Super Bowl has always been as big a battle between advertisers as a competition between the teams View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another in person. How are people doing? What challenges are they... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
has a historic opportunity to recast itself, to meet the enormous impending demand for the new type of vehicles that a petroleum-deficient world will require. The dream machine that built America can once again help shape its future. After all, the lure of the open... View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
For many organizations, virtual recruiting is an entirely new way of engaging with students. Company Conversations may also feel new if your organization is accustomed to engaging in a one-to-many-style presentation instead of small group Q&A. Based View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
Anderson found sustenance in personal and professional relationships that allowed her to talk through the situation and regain her psychological footing. "In the middle of last summer, when no one was hiring, I found six jobs. A new... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
A good way to build a large base of users is to offer something valuable for free. That's been the strategy so far behind Codeacademy. In just a few short years since its inception in 2011, the company has grown into one of the world's... View Details
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited from inside or outside the... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
looked at the label of a common immune support product, one of those sugar-y Vitamin C packets, and realized that this trusted product we had always turned to was loaded with sugar, additives and flavorings.... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
listener. You're asking the questions that the listener wishes someone would ask and that's very much how I thought of my role as asking that next obvious question, even if it's not always the one that the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
in the field of analytics are focused on improved utilization of productive equipment and materials It is hard to get much GDP growth or wage growth this way, but corporate profits are certainly going up. Perhaps that is a better way to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
Employees regularly turn to managers and other higher-level co-workers to seek advice about job-related issues and next steps for their careers. Yet people don’t always take the advice they receive; they may accept some suggestions and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
distributions of income and wealth have grown more unequal, and rates of socioeconomic mobility have declined. Millions of households have had to work longer hours, add additional income earners, and devote more effort to succeed on the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
like? We went public in July 2011, a few months after I was put in the CEO role, so there wasn’t a lot of breathing time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
productivity always hold a fascination for us. But the last few weeks seem to have brought an unusual flow of material on the subject across my desk. One question this raises... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett