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- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which featured an American League... View Details
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
one's labor only serve to make fruit salad for everyone else?" Gerald Schultz commented that democracy "is the only way to bring back equality The problems are being identified. Voters will make changes happen eventually. I hope... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
impact on business results, it's usually too late to make course corrections that will set things right. Therefore, it is wise to go through a self-assessment, to periodically step back from the bustle of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare Inc., which runs the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
be combined. Thomke's experience goes back a long way—as a kid growing up in Germany he participated in a LEGO competition. As an adult, though, his interests lie more in the business behind the bricks. "When you've written many... View Details
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
From neighborhood to neighborhood—even from block to block—customers have different tastes in the products they buy and the retail experience they find most enjoyable. As a business owner operating stores across multiple markets, is it possible to please everyone? Can... View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
was about running a business. It was all about supply chains and helping the military figure out the best way to get stuff to Europe. Of course, identity and structure both had to change. And then the war was over, and we went View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to small telecom companies. AirFox was generating revenue and had a pipeline of interested customers, but it was View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
they are then able to better serve their customers. This is particularly true in service industries. A third difference is that I emphasize the strategic value of operational effectiveness. Traditionally, we did not make much of running... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
strengths of and barriers to commitment and performance. These task forces are clearly instructed by the CEO or business unit manager (depending on the level of the organization in which this process is applied) to bring back the truth.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short run, while the results in the long run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
underinvestment in the economy and managers trying to buy back stocks to appease shareholders while neglecting good investments. Or, worse yet, managers could be trying to boost earnings metrics to flatter themselves. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
by delay can be a very powerful strategy because it's so easy to deploy. A case is made that sounds so reasonable, where we should wait (just a bit) until some other project is done, or we should send this back into committee (just to... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
we now see an industry back on its heels, massively disrupted by an external force so unprecedented it is almost unfathomable. The severity of this business interruption will continue to endure and be further complicated by the mandate of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
is inevitably beyond our control, that we shouldn't waste our time wondering why things are the way they are, and that we should just put our heads down and keep running around the maze chasing after cheese. Q: Your book seems to be about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you negotiate more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
looking out the window at the Clydesdales in the field, and they notice They block the road, and the next scene is the puppy running back with the Clydesdales. The brand logo isn't even shown until the very... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
the export-orientation is still feasible if it is being pursued by a large number of countries in parallel. It might have negative terms-of-trade effects if all exports focus on the same industries. It might to lead to unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances with... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
are evaluating an executive decision or a family matter. "Whenever you implement something, if it fails, then almost invariably it did so because there was an assumption in there that, looking back on it, clearly was not plausible," he... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel