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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
safety) is trying to decide what the content and format of the next ten-year goals should be to ensure the company's viability on its 200th birthday. Should they be incremental goals like the ones for 2005 or ambitious stretch targets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
VTID) after unsuccessful attempts to market it in three different industry settings. The company must determine whether its most recent target market, the quick-serve restaurant segment, is still worth pursuing or whether the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the food and drinks industry are increasing wages, and in a concession to work-life balance, Walmart and Target even opted to close on Thanksgiving. However, in the race to retain talent, companies are also resorting to less substantive... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
management practices, but low enough that they were familiar with day-to-day operations. The researchers also chose to target primarily small and medium-sized firms, employing between 100 and 5,000 workers, to maximize the chances that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
of management constitute the field organization: store, district, regional, and divisional heads. All these managers are responsible for meeting targets set by corporate headquarters and implementing strategy. To do so, they adhere to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
donors and volunteers but all citizens. From the imaginative campaign logo to the thirty-minute infomercial, Obama's communications were professional without being slick, attention-getting without being in-your-face. Fourth, Obama reached out to all citizens. He View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
offering nationwide negotiation and representation services to professional athletes. "I didn't have a lifelong desire to be an entrepreneur," said Paula E. Groves (HBS MBA '91), founding partner of Axxon Capital, a venture capital firm View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Resources Defense Council, 350.org, Protect Our Winters, and Citizen's Climate Lobby to support their work, become educated on climate science and policy solutions, and understand effective lobbying. Fifth, managers should demand that suppliers assess their climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
military, market research). A host of additional marketing decisions need to be made (pricing, channels, bundling a demo game). The case allows students to grapple with the issues of selecting a target application for the launch of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
customer will buy his or her next car from them, and at that, a second purchase could well be years away. While many firms are clearly bent on getting big fast, some competitors are adopting a get-it-right-first strategy instead. One such company, Streamline.com, a... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
phenomenon whereby the potential to be good at something can be preferred over actually being good at that very same thing. We document this preference for potential in laboratory and field experiments, using targets ranging from athletes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
electronic car company founded and led by Elon Musk. Wall Street analysts are wildly divided on the future growth prospects for this company, and analysts’ one year share price targets range from $160 to $500. The case explores in detail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S. By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Technology standards are pervasive in the modern economy, and a target for public and private investments, yet evidence on their economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41297 Vulnerable Banks Authors:Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar Abstract When a bank experiences a negative shock to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
think about binge-watching The Good Place. “You look for prior patterns and use them to discover what the future may hold,” says Teodorescu. As algorithms have become increasingly advanced, they may start knowing us better than we know ourselves. At least, that’s what... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
(and law schools, medical schools, etc.) should attempt to teach students ways to reconcile their actions when ethics seemingly compete with profit or another targeted outcome." As Ken Coleman pointed out, "business students... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
likely to influence the formal and informal decision process. Only when you know exactly who these players are can you develop a strategy that targets their interests. View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
competition. The study focuses on algorithms that are predicated on rival pricing and does not examine those that target pricing for specific regions or consumer groups. Online retail pricing algorithms, whether developed in-house or... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
all the time, so annoying). This time, participants rated the targets not only on likability and sincerity, but also on how attractive they thought the person was. And as with the previous study, participants saw humblebraggers as less... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel