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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
confidentiality will be maintained, they will abandon online brands that they've become loyal to and gravitate to sites and brands that are known for guaranteeing privacy." Brand-building From the advertisers' point of view, one... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
today's will have to be altered to meet the needs of tomorrow. Persuading key stakeholders to abandon familiar practices and perceived entitlements can severely test a manager's negotiation skills. Third, increasing demographic diversity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1880s, and in 1914 four-fifths of registered joint stock companies were private 4 — but the merchants were certainly among the most reluctant sectors to abandon partnerships and family control. View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
network organizations as sharing three characteristics, according to Wei-Skillern: The parties would rather discuss and work through a problem than simply abandon the relationship. There is a high level of trust. They share and help each... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
experimental, learning and adapting as circumstances dictated. That did not mean an abandonment of their ideological commitments any more than it did for the Western countries that sought to promote capitalist development by experimenting... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
traditional resellers. Also, MSPs can be less capital intensive for start-ups. No wonder, then, that an increasing number of entrepreneurial ventures such as thredUP have been attracted to the MSP model. But in 2012 thredUP's management changed course—it View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
effectiveness of the export-oriented approach not supported by the evidence presented at the outset of the document, why are countries not quickly abandoning the export-oriented approach? One candidate to answer this question is the... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
if you don't actually follow through? Q: Best guess: Will this dispute be resolved, or will Google be forced to keep its word and abandon China? Does China need Google more than Google needs China? A: The Chinese cannot permit Google's... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
seem to have a particular knack for moving on, jumping to new S-curves. These people—Miles Davis is one, but there are others, such as Pablo Picasso—seem to be willing to abandon past successes in the pursuit of something new and more... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
open source as in any other field, and developers who flock to high-profile projects—for the aforementioned visibility, future access to venture capital, etc.—could well abandon worthy but less glamorous projects before their time.... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
the negative information paralyze customers? While knowing a product’s trade-offs clarified decisions for many Commonwealth Bank customers, diligently detailing every trade-off could overwhelm people, driving them to abandon the choice... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
University of Southern California and eventually as a Ph.D. student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. But it didn’t mean abandoning lessons about identity and value he remembers from his formative years in Los Angeles. As an assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
It campaign. There was a lot of hand-wringing over that. It wasn't obvious that this was a good decision, but the calculation came down to... that there are going to be a segment of our consumers who will abandon us, and there will be a... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding up until the outbreak of World... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
positive sense of a willingness to abandon the status quo and venture into the unknown, at least partway. For a negotiator, that could be voicing a novel idea or being more (or less) confrontational than usual. Beyond experimenting, it is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
within the euro zone. This is hardly a recipe for growth, especially at a time of severe fiscal tightening. Moreover, European banks are in a difficult position. Depositors in countries that are seen as candidates to abandon the euro are... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
when their employees are naturally proactive. When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat? Companies pay close attention when a competitor drops out of the market. Too often, though, they come to the wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. Great People Abandon Promising Projects The projects are less important than the people, particularly people who... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
American manufacturer of antibiotics—those life-saving drugs required for pneumonia caused by COVID-19—as others have abandoned them to pursue more lucrative drugs. Frazier elected to stay in the business because he knows how essential... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
prone to abandon programs that threatened trust and commitment." Similar programs at low-commitment companies might have succeeded where HP failed. Financial rewards in a fast-changing business environment could undermine a company's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace