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- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
(Ostrom, 1990). Here we extend this claim to the production of man-made artifacts. The design commons induced teachers to volunteer time and effort to communicate their practical knowledge but created corresponding View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
competitive by integrating activities and coordinating resources across national borders. At the same time, they also need to be sensitive and responsive to national differences in consumer tastes and government requirements, for example. Now these two demands are... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony-indirect experience of intercultural View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
productivity on a subsequent task. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-090.pdf Box-Tickers to Frame-Makers: Transformations in the Roles of Functional Experts Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully appreciate the work going on behind the scenes, causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, leaders... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
together at every level—from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. New World, New Roles When companies generally made their money in a large number of mid-sized accounts, marketing was typically seen as the strategic function... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
by a better product or a better method or a better organization or a better strategy. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. This is an extremely hard lesson to accept, particularly by successful people. But... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-048 Intuit: Turbo Tax Personal Pro—A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, and doctoral student MoonSoo Choi found that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
novel, The Brass Cupcake, he wrote, “Today as a writer, I am a small businessman in a highly competitive field, fabricating a product for sale in a buyers’ market, and required to establish my own merchandising and marketing procedures.”... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
the different dimensions of family wealth? Why is material wealth a blessing for some and burden for others? How can philanthropy help raise healthy, happy, and productive family members? These and other questions will be explored as we... View Details
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AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography
Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
women's beauty products enterprise Tweezerman faced the dilemma that every entrepreneurial growth company eventually confronts: "How much bigger can we get—can we handle the risk, the scale, the exposure, and the demands on our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
commercial activities? And if so, how? Addressing this question is crucial at a time like now, when an increasing number of organizations engage in hybrid organizing.” Battilana pursues that big question in a new paper, Harnessing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new products or... View Details