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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
by ecommerce, it sounds as if the third strategy, "Wind Down," is for me. How does that work? Lal: If you look at any retail business there will be some categories that will be in that class. If you think of...
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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
On Immigration Does the US Have Anything to Learn from Europe? We should not confuse the potential economic benefits of immigration for the United States with what is happening in Europe and specifically Germany. While the benefits can be...
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by James Heskett
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Resilience TrainingDepressed employees are up to five times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses. So why aren't employers helping them? What Hospitals Must Learn to CompeteWhy is...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
everyone—can learn from incorporating a search for wise tradeoffs into their decision making. This excerpt is from the book's introduction. Imagine that you are listening to a series of campaign announcements, each made View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
product information standards makes the current aggregation and dissemination of such content an expensive and inefficient proposition—an effort duplicated by each distributor in the channel. This problem is further compounded View Details
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by Andrew McAfee
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
Depending on what they choose, I will learn how much importance they assign to different principles of tax design. I hope this research, by making more relevant the theory that we tax scholars use to...
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- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Shutterstock/Min C. Chiu] What do you think it takes to succeed as a remote team? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Remote Work Revolution:...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
return of a pandemic. But what about potential opportunities associated with the recession of the coronavirus, opportunities associated with a “reshuffling of the deck” in the workforce caused by COVID-19 that could create opportunities...
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by James Heskett
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
read with comprehension. If you play out the next 30 years, something really significant needs to change for the whole world not to be hugely impacted by the lack of resources in this region. You need to find solutions that can work...
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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
With global markets in turmoil over the last several weeks, leaders throughout the world are starting to think about how they should respond if confronted with an economic downturn. Yet what do we know about how leaders decide what to do...
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- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted before moving forward. View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
Michael Collins is looking to diversify. His company, Big Idea Group, currently produces only children's toys, but he thinks his process for discovering, refining, and bringing ideas to market can work in other niches. As the Harvard...
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by Loren Gray
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
make the most of star power. Q: Why did you think there might be an important gender aspect to your research into star performers and their career development? How did you study this topic in depth? Boris Groysberg: A few years ago, my...
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- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
watchmakers to put the most pristine parts, screws, and oil in the perfect locations. “When you think about capturing value from innovations, pricing is quite possibly the most important decision that you’ll ever make” Prices for A. Lange...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
Even so, the executives brought the issue to Harvard Business School Professor Robin J. Ely. Eighteen months and more than 100 employee interviews later, Ely’s research team reached a conclusion that challenged steadfast beliefs about the forces underpinning gender...
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- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
systems and processes. Moreover, the firm had experienced a slight decline in performance and increasing competition from major rivals prior to his arrival. We were intrigued by the changes taking place at Alpha, particularly as we View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant usage, and memory. Where View Details
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by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or...
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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
learning and teaching about the assessment of opportunities, deal structuring, and incentives. (Metallization refers to a thin layer of metal that covers the CDs before information can be laid on them.) The entrepreneur who started...
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by Martha Lagace