Fundamentals - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

Past attempts to woo PC users have been unsuccessful, and Apple's share of the PC market has steadily eroded. Saddled with this baggage, the company stealth positioned the Mini as anything but what it fundamentally is: a competitively... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

tradeoffs implying deprivation or loss. Women struggle just as men do, she said, in figuring out what they want to create and what their platinum standards are. "We have as much of a struggle, in fact, as men do. We are really in this together, even though the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

results versus long-term capabilities. The first four chapters try to help the reader understand that managers are playing a very delicate balancing act. And perhaps the most fundamental tension is the one between profit, growth, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

HySynergy, which is backed by the publicly traded company Everfuel, has completed the first of a three-phase investment in hydrogen electrolyzers—a fundamental Power-to-X technology—designed to support the refinery’s transition to... View Details

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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

practice, however, alleviating the effects of inequities requires a shift in organizational culture, including fundamentally reworking value systems and decision-making frameworks to cultivate the best environment for the employees of all... View Details

27 Oct 2020
News

HBS Votes

Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC) “pay the fines and fees of tens of thousands of returning citizens so they will be eligible to register to vote and participate in this November’s Election,” according to a release on the organization’s website. "The right to... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

way that could drive fundamental change. If we’re lucky we’ll see business partnering with government to rebalance our system in ways that will make everyone better off. There are no guarantees, of course, but I think it’s entirely... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who predicted that the View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

commensurate with military goals. Can the U.S. economy grow if the war on terrorism is prolonged and inconclusive? Because the American economy rides on the back of the American consumer, the fundamental issue is whether we can restore... View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; Government

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites, primarily through localization of management. Fundamentally Flawed Indexing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A New Industry Emerges Not so long ago, real estate development looked and acted like modern-day "cowboy capitalism." "From the '70s to the late '80s, real estate was... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

consistent with stock prices being subject to temporary fluctuations caused by changes in market risk aversion, which adds an additional layer of short-term volatility to stock returns. In recessions, even as long-term fundamentals remain... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

purpose, we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders...," states the Business Roundtable. Corporate social responsibility in theory How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility BlackRock's Larry... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

very limited by intent. Restricting content and making it hard to get was one of the rationales behind the campaign. What I like about the case is that it breaks so many fundamental marketing principles. One classic rule maintains that if... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

for ad revenue. Instead, the research findings contradict this notion, offering validation that the press is keeping vigilant watch and is exercising the fundamental rights assigned to them by the US Constitution. “I was surprised to see... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Profile

Raymond Hwang

can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market characteristics.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your... View Details

Keywords: Services; Entrepreneurship; Health Care

11 Sep 2015
Blog Post

What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

Having the JD/MBA community has fundamentally shaped my time at Harvard. The group represents a collection of the most passionate, dynamic students on campus. These are individuals who buck the paradigms at both schools and carve out... View Details

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

landscape, the Corporate Strategy course addresses three questions that challenge every modern corporation. The first and most fundamental is, "How do companies create shareholder value across multiple markets?" in the midst of radical... View Details

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