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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Srikant M. Datar, and Madhav Rajan Publication:14th ed. Prentice Hall, forthcoming (2012) Abstract Emphasizing the "different costs for different purposes," this text focuses on strategy and the decision-making process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
means to be politically correct. They used the responses to help create the definition employed in their research: “using language (or behavior) to seem sensitive to others’ feelings, especially those others who seem socially... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
a destructive interpersonal emotion, when they compare themselves to successful peers. Across two online experiments and an experimental field study, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate others’ feelings of malicious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
challenge as one of employing focus appropriately or in proper proportion to more broadly "noticing." Cedric Roossel said: "To put it simply, you don't want to be focused during a strategy View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
firms. For instance, a board member who helped design a compensation contract for Firm A might employ the same strategy when helping to design a contract for Firm B. “Board interlock is a conduit of information, but it’s also a source of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
from your team for what they need to be most productive/engaged Set clear expectations and definitions of success along with systems to track progress to ensure employees can independently and collaborative work towards goals. Utilize... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
I. She will join Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines, as a corporate strategy manager, where she’ll be charged with active portfolio management across its business units and investments. During your EC year, what... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
firms headquartered in the United States have performed well since 1980 when compared to firms in Europe or Asia (measured both by sales and by numbers of new product introductions), this essay explores the interplay of regulation, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
health justice, and social justice. Ultimately, we need to create a new decision-making paradigm, where our business strategies and choices fully consider the short- and long-term impacts we have on the environment, on communities, and on... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
more, that wouldn’t work,” he says. “But if I am in fact using some of that time to do other things to make the world better, then that’s a pretty good trade-off.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Shutterstock/Min C. Chiu]... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find strategies that increase the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998) arrived at McDonald’s in 2014 as vice president of strategy and insights, she asked her team about the most common requests... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
conditions don't prevail, watch out. At risk of oversimplification, that sums up the responses to this month's column, in which most readers accepted to some degree author Duncan Watts' description of how common sense fails us. First things first. Several offered View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
customers on the brand? Amano points out that the benefits of personalized marketing are often overshadowed by the creepiness factor. “There definitely are a bunch of benefits that we reap from the fact that firms and governments have... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
and think about equity and inclusion, but this is not at the top of my priority list. The second bucket is executives who say, I definitely want to have more diversity, equity, and inclusion, but I don’t know how to tackle this complex... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
question. You are definitely seeing competition for labor from Amazon, from Walmart. Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are not quite the pure model Dollar General has become, but they’re all at that low end of the market. Their business model... View Details