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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the highest-potential opportunities... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan offers an answer. Looking at... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort
For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a world-renowned principal flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But in 2024, Rowe decided to leave her position to pursue a new full-time career as a leadership coach. At 50, Rowe was well under the typical retirement age, and,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Small Business; Social Media; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Learning; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Creativity; Happiness; Identity; Interests; Satisfaction; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Culture; Resignation and Termination; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Music Industry; United States
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon, and Alexis Lefort. "Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra." Harvard Business School Case 425-037, April 2025.
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
In 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
increasing number of companies were trying to position themselves as leading intermediaries in the market for intellectual property, IV was looking for the best business model to become such a leading intermediary. Its model was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
fierce business competition, your bargaining endowment can spell the difference between closing the deal and being shut out. A healthy bargaining endowment explains how Darren Rovell won a job on national television while other journalism... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
Haythornthwaite engaged large teams to work on a new strategy for Invensys, while Jim Kilts devised Gillette's strategy for each line of business by himself, working with a small group of trusted executives.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
standards of the Internet and willing to transfer databases to a "rival supplier" in the event of an unsatisfactory relationship (Joshua Doherty), and those maintaining a highly focused in-house R&D capability while outsourcing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
projects that it will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by the end of 2014. But as the Great Wall exemplifies the great feats of Chinese unity, so too does it reflect a tradition of environmental subjugation for national gain. Harvard View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
http://hbr.org/product/3d-systems/an/614035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-010 Cyprus (A) Cyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
unavailable at this time. Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract We study the effect of bank loan supply through the business cycle using firm-level data from 1990 to 2009. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
forecasting; supply chain speed; inventory planning; and gathering accurate, available data. The following excerpt from their report in the Harvard Business Review shows how some of these companies are making the most of the data... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Some are small businesses, some are big corporations, some are multinationals. Is this package a win for business in general? Desai: Yes, I think broadly you could characterize it as a win. The basic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
health," one health advocate said. Consisting of a small barrel-shaped design that mimics an actual cigarette, the devices vaporize a liquid nicotine solution, which is then inhaled without the tar and carcinogens found in smoke.... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
interests of small investors." He also suggests that investors have little ability to judge whether compensation for managers is fair, particularly in an information economy in which it is difficult to assess justification for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Merchants Bank Harvard Business School Case 307-081 Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace