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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
policies: There are retailers who offer to self-match and retailers who explicitly state that they will not match prices across channels. Using a game-theoretic model, we investigate the strategic forces behind the adoption (or... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
PublicationsIn Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization Authors:Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski Publication:Research in Sociology of Work Abstract Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2018
- Working Paper
Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-062, January 2018.
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
business and society. In its Winter 2008 issue, Business History Review included five articles on salesmanship: "Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900-1938" (by Andrew Gordon) "Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
communities. Heeding the prewar lesson of Enterprise Associates, the founders agreed to raise $5 million in capital by selling two hundred thousand shares of ARD common stock at $25 a share. The idea of venture capital was so new that the founders of ARD were View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 09 Nov 2023
- HBS Case
What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?
an executive who has dealt with this. Baskin: How do leaders take care of themselves? Cohen: Each case is different. If you force a leader who’s clearly uncomfortable and doesn’t want to talk about it to open up, it may make them a worse... View Details
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?
conducted five studies to explore differences in how extroverts and introverts express, perceive, and experience passion on the job. To extract data from subjective expressions of passion, the team created a novel “passion experiences and... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
herself to blame. The primary, perhaps only significant, thing that India has borrowed from China lately is a good, healthy economic scare. Indians, you will recall, were terrified of Chinese goods coming across the border a few years ago. It turned out that this View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- January 2024
- Case
National Football League and Private 5G
By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyu Chen
On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us... View Details
Keywords: Football; National Football League; 5G; Verizon; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sports Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Wu, Andy, Grant Son, and Shuoyu Chen. "National Football League and Private 5G." Harvard Business School Case 724-433, January 2024.
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
company's strategy. "There are five or six million people in this space," Iansiti says of the open source community. "It's important to ensure they're doing something that helps your cause." It makes sense to provide... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
low cost or a business providing goods or services that end or reduce respiratory ailments. Bringing together public healthcare and market forces "could have huge impact," says Chu. That feeling was underscored by Chu's own... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent
force for quite some time.” Beckham (right) and Authentic Brands CEO Jamie Salter (middle), pictured walking with Elberse, shared business insights with MBA students during a visit in October. (Image credit: Evgenia Eliseeva) Authentic... View Details
- May–June 2020
- Article
The New-Market Conundrum
By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it’s unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details
Keywords: New Markets; Markets; Business Model; Strategy; Framework; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation
McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. "The New-Market Conundrum." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 3 (May–June 2020): 75–83.
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
response team of perhaps five or six people who function as the leader's staff in the parallel crisis-management organization. 5. Preset activation protocols. Preset signals for activating and coordinating the various response modules in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
financial crises, and weak intellectual property rights. HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (Harvard Business Press), offer an actionable View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique social, cultural, political, and historical View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
study; we asked participants to fill it out and send it back by the end of the day. Each team did this through their entire project (or project phase) that we were studying (anywhere from five weeks up to nine months). Of course, the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value Authors: James C.Anderson, James A. Narus, and Das Narayandas Publication: 3rd ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008 Abstract For business-to-business marketing courses. The authors build the book around a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne