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- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
its appeal, yet consumers—particularly young, fashion-conscious consumers—want a product that looks fresh and unexpected. How does a luxury brand keep its edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? "We can still... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
or what their personal incentives might be for listing it. (Oftentimes by the time scripts are listed, they’ve already been sold to studios, who might want to list their own scripts in order to attract top actors and directors.) “If you... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
SUMMING UP: Is collective pride the primary contributor to organization arrogance? There are three things that many respondents to this month’s column can agree on: (1) Pride is an attractive trait among members of an organization;... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
Summing Up Can "Conscious Capitalism" Become a Viable Antidote to Income Inequality? Conscious capitalism as an antidote to income inequality apparently is an idea that attracts the attention of a diverse community, judging from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
the same in how nice, honest, and attractive they were. “This leisure-less lifestyle is so aspirational, any products or services that are associated with it become status symbols,” Keinan says. Interestingly, this glorification of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
solar energy has become cheap enough to compete with gas and coal. Wind energy is typically more effective than solar, and due to advances in engineering, more wind locations provide grid-parity green energy. Solar and wind will continue their impressive evolution and... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
and attracting entirely new ones. Rethinking A Trip To The Museum A museum trip has traditionally been an intensely physical experience: walking gallery floors, hearing footsteps echo off spacious halls, and seeing up-close the brush... View Details
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
intrigued by the unusually esoteric world of accounting standard-setting. Unlike major government programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which attract large, general-interest groups to rally, debate, and participate in the... View Details
- Research Summary
Competing on a Common Platform
Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
fared poorly. Even fashion-forward discounters like Target have not done well. This doesn't necessarily mean consumers have lost their interest in upscale merchandise. Rather than returning to these same stores after the crisis, are consumers more likely to be View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- March 2015
- Case
BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm
By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
Sahlman, William A., and Robert F. White. "BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 815-702, March 2015.
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
and economic inequity that deny so many Black people safe, healthy, and attractive housing. And with multiple studies showing income inequality at its worst since the Roaring Twenties, cities around the country facing a lack of affordable... View Details
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
masters to further her own career are also what the company needs. And when firms help workers acquire new skills that support their professional advancement, they often win those workers' commitment—and attract loyal new employees. This... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
performance, I mean return on investment; by superior I mean more value than your competitors. If you create more value than your competitors over time, then you will attract more investment in a virtuous circle that makes you more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
applicants were being discouraged by many employers from going to full-time MBA programs, that part-time MBA, executive MBA, and other masters programs were seen as attractive substitutes, and that the students who came were not as... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurship” with Bernard Leca and Eva Boxenbaum ( Academy of Management Annals , 2009) was named by Science Watch as the August 2011 “Fast Breaking Paper” in Economics and Business. A Fast Breaking Paper is “a very recent scientific contribution that is just... View Details