Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (4,584) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (4,584) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 87 of 4,584 Results →
  • 22 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis

Keywords: by Peter Tufano, Nick Maynard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve; Financial Services
  • 2001
  • Chapter

Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
Related
  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Gap, Inc., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
Related
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

when delivering this feedback. Asking the feedback giver questions throughout the process can generate feedback that’s clearer and more specific. In addition to reducing ambiguity, asking questions can turn feedback from a one-way... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

Island to South Georgia and stayed with him the whole time. He wrote of Shackleton and what the effort to bring his men home cost him. Worsley said that Shackleton went gray—his hair literally turned gray between the time they arrived at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53137 July 2017 Psychological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
  • 06 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman; Legal Services
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

product, move into a more promising market, or adjust to a changing business environment. Whatever the circumstance, he says this action turns on a basic question: “What’s your story?” “How do you maintain trust and project your original... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

has a dark side, and if employees aren’t careful about how and when they express it, it can turn off colleagues or even make them feel threatened, according to new research. “You can’t just express passion and expect it will be jolly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

something to be said about understanding what you love and the impact you want to make in the world to help set your direction. “Sometimes it's a plan, sometimes it's a North Star, sometimes it's just a general inner compass, and that compass View Details
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

hit. Business offices turned to remote work, and group communication made an enormous shift from largely in-person to online meetings. Zoom use soared, Teams expanded, and Slack held its own. In the midst of the pandemic, Slack filed an... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • 03 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Pet Project

distribution, a new brand must have high velocity (i.e., unit sales per store), which comes from frequent repeat purchases by loyal customers. Converting retail shoppers to DTC—if Maev could figure out how to do that—would reduce velocity, which in View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Contracting in the Self-reporting Economy

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Richard Sansing; Accounting
  • August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
  • Case

MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai
In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry
Related

    Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

    A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

    In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
    • Web

    HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

    Endline (MBA 2001), SweetRiot Panelists: Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Visible Hands Archie L. Jones Jr. (MBA 1998), Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Josh Aviv, CEO & Founder of Sparkcharge 10:30–11:30 a.m. Turning Adversity into... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

    phone use. “Drivers valued the option to pause their coverage, taking advantage of the flexibility to turn it off every three days on average.” Uninsured drivers who applied for an insurance quote were randomly offered either a... View Details
    Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
    • 01 Feb 2022
    • Book

    Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

    to solve that problem? Have we got the right formula? And then scale it, turn it into real business. And they're completely different because the context in which they're doing it is in some respects harder, and in some respects easier.... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert