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  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

will fall." P. Maxson asked, "Who gets to decide what the 'right' choices are?" Ironically, some who questioned "nudge" strategies favored other perhaps more draconian solutions.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • December 2011 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Bananas (A)

By: Eric Van den Steen
As owner and CEO, Wim Van der Borght had grown Bananas in 8 years from a 4.5 million euro company into a 40 million euro group of companies with a range of field marketing activities in Belgium and the Netherlands. The core of the group consisted of two companies —... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Competitive Advantage; Growth Strategy; Strategic Analysis; PVA; Culture As Commitment; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Belgium
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  • 05 Aug 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

in the field of analytics are focused on improved utilization of productive equipment and materials It is hard to get much GDP growth or wage growth this way, but corporate profits are certainly going up. ... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • March 2024
  • Teaching Note

Sonder Holdings Inc.: Using Technology to Solve Hospitality's Frictions

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 922-039. Digital disruption is challenging the hospitality industry. Traditional hotels face competition from platforms, most visibly Airbnb but also the homeshare divisions of online travel agencies such as Expedia and Booking.com, that... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Competition; Market Participation; Accommodations Industry
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    A Practical Approach to Sales Compensation: What Do We Know Now? What Should We Know in the Future?

    Personal selling represents one of the most important elements in the marketing mix, and appropriate management of the sales force is vital to achieving the organization’s objectives. Among the various instruments of sales management, compensation plays a pivotal... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

    their skills, and move them up the skill and pay ladders,” says Eckert, with robots replacing only the bottom rungs. “You’re not finding 21-year-olds coming out of school and wanting to go into... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    CEO Activism, Consumer Polarization, and Firm Performance

    By: Young Hou and Christopher W. Poliquin
    CEOs are increasingly engaging in activism on controversial social and political issues that do not directly affect their businesses. Simultaneously, the general public is increasingly polarized. We examine how CEO support for gun control after two mass shootings... View Details
    Keywords: CEO Activism; Guns; Polarization; Non-market Strategy; Social Issues; Leadership; Consumer Behavior; Performance
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    • 23 Jan 2024
    • Book

    More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

    verify ownership—and potentially exchange it—NFTs enable markets to emerge. NFTs have enabled trade in digital images and media files (such as those Ape images we mentioned), as well as new business models... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
    • Article

    Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History

    By: Teresa da Silva Lopes, Mark Casson and Geoffrey Jones
    This article engages in a methodological experiment by using historical evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Internalization; Multinational Strategy; Business History; Organization And Management Theory; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Organizations; Theory; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • 03 Oct 2017
    • News

    Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

    its Nasdaq stock market debut. But Bezos was still feeling frugal. He didn’t want to spring for a cab from Logan to the Harvard campus, so some MBA students vied View Details
    Keywords: Retail Trade
    • August 2019
    • Article

    When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation

    By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek
    Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods
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    • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Amazon.com, 2021

    By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
    In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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    • 05 Jun 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

    "A world without surprises or bad news is utopian I often coach employees to expect the worst and prepare for it studies should focus on preparation rather than prevention." Paul McKay commented that "By having a clear,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • February 2000 (Revised December 2000)
    • Case

    Coca-Cola's New Vending Machine (A): Pricing To Capture Value, or Not?

    By: Charles King III and Das Narayandas
    Chairman and CEO M. Douglas Ivester stumbles when he tells a Brazilian newsmagazine about a new Coke vending machine that can automatically raise prices in hot weather. Reaction around the world is swift and negative. View Details
    Keywords: Price; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Global Range; Public Opinion; Value Creation
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    • 19 Aug 2021
    • News

    A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

    the federal government, was that Black people could not get mortgages, and therefore Black people had to go to the gray market for finance. And... View Details
    • 03 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

    to teach this case for the first time. The case focused on future growth strategies for the oldest active venture capital firm in the US, and how Bessemer had assembled a unique group View Details
    • 16 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry

    Monica. In her free time she also tours as the drummer for artist M.I.A (no big deal!). Why did you decide to come to HBS? I decided to come to... View Details
    • 22 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    “Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

    and insurance fees. "Once you do that, everyone in the marketplace is going to know who the federal government has identified as systemically significant, and one of two things is View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

    ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic high jump...we were View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Sep 2018
    • Blog Post

    Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

    ten weeks in the company, I was able to design an online marketing strategy and create acquisition funnel metrics to test different campaigns and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship