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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
Box” referring to 9/11 with no explanation, suggesting a sinister relationship of some kind. Other snafus, such as recommendations on the children’s YouTube service that directed children watching cute pet tricks to a site featuring... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
rigorous use of the past to inform the present and the present to inform the past. I came here as a young woman, a filly really, in terms of my scholarly experience. For a young historian, it was striking to see how Al made a point of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
labeling conventions—representing, in the words of the authors, "an exercise in linguistics, not economics." Like Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concluded that concepts like time and distance depend on one's View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
commonplace, she said, but it's a false dichotomy because "we are all raced, and we are all gendered." Giddings talked of "racist, classist vitriol" in writings by renowned nineteenth-century feminists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For example, she View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
apparent fact that women want less? "We're only measuring part of the equation," Riley pointed out. "Maybe women were optimizing for more than what they achieved in the pie. We're maybe setting our View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov, senior research officer at the Bank... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
price of competing products, pose new challenges on translating the demand forecasts into a pricing policy. We develop an algorithm to efficiently solve the subsequent multi-product price optimization that incorporates reference price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
"gift" some of the value and not charge as much. For innovative products, the thinking gets even more complicated. “Usually when you price, you have reference prices because you have comparable products on the market,” Thomke... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
ever to come by. Q: What is "hyper-maturity?" A: It takes a period of time before a category reaches the point that we begin to experience it as a blur. When a product category is nascent, it tends to be dominated by a much... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
specific searches. [See point on compensation in Financials, below] New to hiring? Practice interviewing candidates with investors or their associates before bringing actual candidates in for the real interview. Resume screening can be an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
addressed a couple of these points when she said, "The fact that we can name so few leaders as readily as the ones cited in the article is because they are exceptions. There is no question that brilliant, strongly mission-driven... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
left to round out the team. Then again, there's no point in holding lots of cash with no one worthwhile to spend it on. Conventional negotiation theory doesn't say much about how to craft and execute strategy in such dynamic markets.... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
says, ‘I left my heart in San Francisco,’ but it wasn’t the ‘little cable cars climbing half-way to the stars’—it was the willingness to follow a long path of discovery and try and fail repeatedly until one succeeded. And the best management understood this.” Declan... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
realized that no one had ever told this story as a business story." In the bigger picture, U2's journey reflects our own moment here in the early 21st century, Koehn says, pointing to a growing spiritual hunger among young people, the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
refers to the types of tradeoffs an assortment demands of a consumer. An alignable assortment is one where products vary along a single dimension—such as size or speed or capacity. Therefore, the tradeoffs are "within attribute"... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers, and even computer networking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
make a distinction in meaning, it is usually in reference to levels in a hierarchy. People at the very top provide "leadership"—whatever that is—or at least they are supposed to. People in the middle do the "management," again with little... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter