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- 08 Jan 2012
- News
Progress Principle: You're More Important Than You Think
- 24 Mar 2016
- News
The Vanguard Cyborg Takeover
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The Location Component of Pricing Strategies
By: David E. Bell
David E. Bell is examining retail pricing strategies in the context of location. He finds that customers' willingness to visit a particular store depends on their price expectations, the likelihood that a suitable item will be in stock, and the store's proximity to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2017
- News
Amazon Brick & Mortar
- 21 Aug 2023
- Book
You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance
statistics. Workers between the ages of 55 and 64 remain with an employer for a median 9.9 years, compared with 2.8 years for 25-to-34-year-olds. Over 90 percent of millennials (people born in the 1980s and 1990s) say they expect to change jobs every three years, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
key is to be ruthlessly realistic with oneself. As I hope the book makes clear, this is one of the greatest challenges for any CEO. Q: The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS professor Clayton Christensen illustrated how formerly successful... View Details
- June 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Alibris (A)
By: Andrew P. McAfee and Kerry Herman
Alibris is an Internet-era company providing search and fulfillment services for hard-to-find (rare, used, and out-of-print) books. At the time of the case, the company had made decisions to change its revenue model, to become involved in the fulfillment process for... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Applications and Software; Problems and Challenges; Books; Service Industry
McAfee, Andrew P., and Kerry Herman. "Alibris (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-111, June 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
James K. Sebenius
JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details
- 2017
- Chapter
Entrepreneurship in Larger Companies
By: William R. Kerr
Entrepreneurship in large and established companies is vital for their long-term success. Incumbent firms face many challenges ranging from global competition to digitization. In times past, being caught flat-footed might have set a company back several years, but it... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R. "Entrepreneurship in Larger Companies." Chap. 27 in The Entrepreneur's Roadmap: From Concept to IPO, edited by Tim Dempsey and Bonnie Hyun, 161–164. Chicago, IL: Caxton Business & Legal, Inc., 2017.
- 20 Mar 2015
- News
50 Million Users: The Making of an ‘Angry Birds’ Internet Meme
- 23 Oct 2014
- News
8 Strategies To Find The Perfect Business Partner
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Weekend Reading: The Soul of a CEO
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Required Reading: The Keys for Unlocking the Customer Value Chain
- 20 Jul 2016
- News
To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship explores the exciting world of active investing and lays out in a clear and readily accessible way their key features, ways of doing business and likely evolution. The book follows the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Building a culture of entrepreneurs
- 2018
- Book
Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World
By: Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier
In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained... View Details
Beckert, Sven and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne