Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (3,139) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (3,139) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 69 of 3,139 Results →
  • March 2013 (Revised April 2014)
  • Case

Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution

By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Kimball Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer
The case describes competition in the market for E-Books, and Barnes & Noble's Strategy in this industry. As a traditional retailer, B&N was challenged by the introduction of digital technologies that allow books to be published, distributed and sold to consumers... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Technology Strategy; Platform Competition; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology; Product Development; Digital Platforms; Standards; Disruptive Innovation; Retail Industry; Publishing Industry; North America
Related
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

health care, utilities, energy, real estate, and technology by as much as 2.5 percentage points on an annualized basis. The TOPICS method uses sophisticated financial models to spot hidden similarities in risk and return profiles among... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • Web

Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

business strategy—and identified a set of customers who were willing to pay a premium for healthy, environmentally friendly food. Shared Value and Company Strategy: Whole Foods Markets Natural, fresh, organic, and freshly prepared foods and View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

  Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

Blair Storie-Johnson Are you anxious about an upcoming job interview, public speaking engagement, or any other high-pressure workplace situation? Here’s a weird but now research-supported tip: Try taking a whiff of your sweetheart’s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

intrinsic or extrinsic incentives, and, for a wide range of settings, when the principal is more confident about the right course of action. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-085.pdf Publications Quanto Sei (a)Morale?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Venture Competition Runner-Up, Business Track: Sanso Sanso is helping drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. Team: Narek Dshkhunyan, MBA 2024; Daniel Erdosy Play Trans View Details
  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

that are widely seen as measures of gentrification are accompanied by growth in the number of businesses in every category we examined.” Creating better public policy Gentrification has swept through some of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

Allocators with suspicious partners did not significantly differ from liars on word count. Allocators with suspicious partners used more negative emotion words and profanity. Mixed support was found for indexes from Coh-Metrix that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

stability? Working Papers BFFS releases regular working papers from its members. Data One of the primary outputs of the BFFS project is our ongoing real-time database of financial stability and investor sentiment measures that we make... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

The technology to make soap was known for several thousand years, but the product was rarely used for personal washing, especially by Europeans who largely avoided washing with water after the Black Death in the Middle Ages, believing it to be dangerous. Then, as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

investments in the technology, consumer, and business and health care services industries, and a portfolio manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private... View Details
  • Web

Student Research - Doctoral

various bodies of literature have made important strides in understanding specific elements of... 2024 Article International Journal of Public Health Psychological Safety as an Enduring Resource amid... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim
  • July – August 2011
  • Article

Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units

By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker
Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry
Related
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Video: Welcome MBA Class of 2025

opportunity, this platform, to serve the public good.” Jana Kierstead: “You belong here. Make sure you take advantage of it. Appreciate every minute of it.” Adhavan Adityan (MBA 2024), Student Association Co-President: “The rigor of the... View Details
  • Web

Partners - Case Method Project

Christy Colt Basis DC Washington, DC Subjects: U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics DC 10 of 23 Rebecca Donnelly Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School Washington, DC Subjects: US History, AP Government DC 11 of 23 Ronald... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

Ubel Publication: Health Psychology 27, no. 6 (November 2008): 669-675 Abstract Objective: The authors addressed a lingering concern in research on hedonic adaptation to adverse circumstances. This research typically relies on self-report... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

units, we found beneficial effects of front-line staff participation and collaboration on organizational performance, as measured by improvement in risk-adjusted unit mortality. However, the positive effects had contingencies.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace