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- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
community, that have risen to the top and realized their role goes well beyond making the numbers to satisfy their shareholders, but they have to do something to really make a difference in the world, through the power that's vested in them with their companies. So... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
don't.' Over the past twenty years, I have run into that analogous question in hundreds of companies. Should you trade down your product line to broaden the market you serve? These are issues that do not go away, and I think that's what... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
risks of changing life expectancy, inflation, and interest rates. Course Corrections Merton uses the analogy of an ocean liner sailing from England to New York. When just out of port, there are many unforeseen things to correct for along... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
trying to build institutions is like building sandcastles. There is no foundation," he said, citing the analogy of a bricklayer and an architect. "The ones appearing to do the job initially are bricklayers," he said.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
always like it, but I explained to them that they ought to have pride enough in their jobs to learn about this piece of equipment and what it did." He created a simple analogy to drive home the need for accurate measurement: If you... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
tapes when everyone else was selling CDs," says Huber, noting that the antiquated nature of his analogy proves his point. “General Motors spent a billion dollars on my tuition.” GM's leadership team heeded the suggestion, not only... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
findings show that people don't click through on advertising on social networks. "A good analogy is to imagine sitting at a table with friends when a stranger pulls up a chair, sits down, and tries to sell you something while you are... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
coupled search processes can dramatically obscure the true impact of design on performance, confounding empirical research. We identify research strategies for tackling this difficulty; discuss population-level advantages of coupled search processes; and highlight... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
to disaggregate their markets and seek out the differences and opportunities often hidden in current pieces of business. Q: Pricing opportunities occur at what you call the "piece of business" level of competition. What does this mean? Can you give an... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008) Abstract Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advantages, depending on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
performance decline when they move from one team to another; they operate fairly independently. (In the corporate world, the somewhat autonomous position of the chief financial officer is analogous to that of the punter, Groysberg says.)... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
Association for the Advancement of Science to create analogous Web sites in other disciplines. The resulting coalition creates an educational program that none of the partners could have developed alone. Family-owned businesses also... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Working PapersPlatform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a basic conceptual framework for interpreting non-price instruments used by multi-sided platforms (MSPs) by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
base. But many ventures simply partition markets based on what is identifiable and accessible via purchased customer lists, SIC codes, LinkedIn, Facebook, or the sheer number of cold calls. Sales may be made, but it's the result of a random-walk process View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent requests from unpredictable... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 918-413 Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup When digital distribution becomes an option for an analog industry, the effects on incumbents can be devastating.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Markets By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper explores how mental models affect the analysis of dynamic strategic interactions. We develop an explanation-based view of mental models founded on a regression analogy and... View Details
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