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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
worked out. It may have contributed to the thinking behind the “dot-com bubble,” which was characterized by a wave of IPOs for organizations built around the information economy, ballooning stock options, and new attitudes toward company value (with View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and creativity. While specific tactics vary by company, they share... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
take profits from one market and cross-subsidize losses in another. They've got to have a big, strategic world view, and be able to see broad cross-market trends and commonalities. In the P&G case, it was the global business manager... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
China and India as competition but as profit centers to improve our short term return on investment. We need to reexamine that paradigm. . . . Sometimes the kids in the global community don't play fair. We... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
ground in Bentonville, Arkansas to sell and service Wal-Mart. Large individual accounts are now separable market segments, and even profit centers supported by their own multi-functional organizations. The... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's Christensen View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
distribution centers with the goal of improving operational performance and ultimately increasing profits and wages and offering a better work environment. The answer from my heart is that I would like to... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
purpose than simply profit and increasing stock price, though they were all laser-focused on profitability and saw it as essential to achieving their larger purpose for the firm. They had a multi-stakeholder... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (HBS MBA '76), executive director of the School's Latin America Research Center (LARC). Herrero responded promptly, and with the assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (HBS PMD 74,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
time. They believe that in pursuing its own self-interest in opening and expanding the BOP market, business can make a profit while serving the poorest of consumers and contributing to development. As Rangan explains, "For business,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Gerald Nanninga added: "The pressure to turn a profit in massively competitive mature industries with razor thin margins makes it hard to (do what Google has done). And the business world is a lot more like this than it is like... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us to analyze two competing changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
expressed the frustration that many people in the biotech industry feel as he clicked through the depressing data in gloomy graphs on a big screen. "It's not a very profitable sector of the economy" based on the performance of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers and figure out if there are checks and balances... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
717-016 Generali: Paving the Way for CEE Expansion Generali was one of Italy’s largest companies and one of Europe’s largest insurers and had for decades been at the center of the web of cross-shareholding that has characterized the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne