Abandonment - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2019
Case

HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion

By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer... View Details

Keywords: Loyalty Programs; Multi-vendor Platform; Retail; Big Data; Customer Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Analytics and Data Science; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey

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02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter." Telling The Hard Truths What happens when leaders must communicate facts that are hard to take? Nitin... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

discipline, rigid scheduling, or abandoning the laptop for a full hour to overcome these obstacles. It starts with letting go of the idea that we must reflect in a time-consuming or perfect way; instead, we should “aim for good enough,”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

correctly decomposes stock price movements into expected returns and cash flows. Empirically, it resolves both puzzles: (i) price-to-trend ratios are largely unrelated to future cash flows, and (ii) they successfully predict returns. Our results suggest asset pricing... View Details

21 Mar 2019
HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

shareholders, the company could abandon the principles that made it successful. So far, Ferrari has resisted that urge—and continued to produce cars at a level below demand. “If anyone can walk into a dealership and get one, then it loses... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

introduce them in Japan. Unfortunately, Japanese consumers were hooked on a completely different technology, forcing Vodafone to abandon ship after a few rocky years. "Vodafone needed to study the Japanese handset," Alcácer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

excerpted here, authors Kaplan and Anderson suggest the process be simplified through an approach they call "time-driven ABC." Here's an overview. The solution to the problems with ABC is not to abandon the concept. ABC after... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

ensure continued progress. Shifting leadership style from commanding to coaching is another agile leadership tool. Leaders use two-way communication methods and positive language, focusing not on what can’t be done but on how we can get it done. Rigby, Elk, and Berez... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

data about its online customers—products purchased, browsing habits, items abandoned in shopping carts—yet it wasn’t fully leveraging all that information. The company began to see this huge pile of e-commerce data as the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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McCulloch Hall | About

currency. The gold standard was adopted in 1866 but proved unpopular and was abandoned two years later. McCulloch continued his advocacy of currency backed by gold for the remainder of his career. View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

business wisdom as old school, we found ourselves wondering if they were right. For years we had watched new management ideas come and go, passionately embraced one year, abruptly abandoned the next. "What really works?" we... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

Portrait Project

Haoran Jiang

words and quick with the belt. Being on the receiving end of that left enough marks on my body and in my soul. But maybe I can forgive him, one day. After all, he raised me when he could have just abandoned me. When I became an adult, I... View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly trapped in pack ice, Shackleton abandoned one cherished goal and shouldered another that was forced on him by circumstance. Through extraordinary hardships that lasted almost two more years, he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2010
HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

Fresh & Easy to become profitable. Correct decision? A: Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco's highly successful CEO for more than a decade, recently announced that he would step down in favor of Philip Clarke, a long-standing Tesco insider. Speculation that this might result in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

of a global view. Too much of leadership research is conducted in the United States or western Europe. This is despite the reality that some of the most disruptive leadership practices and new business models are coming out of the emerging markets, as they View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

command-and-control approach to management, remains in place, the newer tools designed to decentralize strategic decision making will never achieve their full potential, Hope and Fraser argue. The solution is not better budgeting "but rather View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

2018
Working Paper

Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

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14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

North of their organization: its mission, values, and strategy. They should create clarity around this True North and refuse to let external events pull them off course or cause them to neglect or abandon their mission, which must be... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

growing body of evidence that suggests that bottom-up "discovery" has a superior record in comparison with "top down 'deliberate' strategies from headquarters." He asks whether companies should call a halt to managing the innovation process,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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