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- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
undercut a positive message about a product's benefits with safety warnings. That might make you feel uncomfortable and even dissuade you from buying the brand. You might instead buy a competitive product that doesn't flag safety issues quite as much. "Risk View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
Conference Coverage on the Working Knowledge website. European Business Conference Seeks to Understand Differences Americans expect to find luxury goods at the mall. Europeans don’t. American shoppers expect to be waited on. U.K. customers might consider such View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
professor Ernest R. Berndt), HBS professor Alvin J. Silk looks at both internal and external forces affecting the industry, with particular attention to the impact of the Internet. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
observes Rosabeth Moss Kanter in a new Harvard Business Review article, "Innovation: The Classic Traps." Kanter, who holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
50-Plus Years of Entrepreneurship I was disturbed by the June Bulletin's infographic showing that HBS had been teaching entrepreneurship for only 50 years (page 7). As a student at HBS, I took Management of New Enterprises, an excellent...
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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
performance of venture capital funds. What could be done to make this information more readily available to investors? A: The lack of transparency in private equity is a major issue that is likely to attract considerable attention in the...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
negotiation requires adapting your communication acts to the most advantageous pattern. Learning The Notes Imagine you're a sales rep negotiating with the procurement manager of a professional services firm. Your company is the only...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research teams to manage the innovation process....
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable investing Almost 33 percent of the $51.4 trillion in...
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- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
is for companies to frame goals in terms of promotion, and what we show here is that this might actually lead to cheating as a side effect.” The dichotomy raises an important question: If employees are generally focused on the benefits of getting things done, will they...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
panelists said the ability to anticipate is critical, as is recognizing the need to adopt different management styles as you are scaling your company. Careful attention to hiring—and authentic empathy in...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
attention to the old business. As managers learn to frame innovations in a more nuanced, balanced way, they can unlock the potential of both the old and the new.
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of...
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- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
"Corporate boards should hire more women." Would more women in leadership help mitigate #MeToo concerns? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN One of the most important global management stories in 2017 was the #MeToo movement, a...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
managing the balance sheet) or mentoring and coaching direct reports. A good CEO knows how to balance time spent on the outside versus the inside. While balancing their own time, CEOs should nevertheless work hard to ensure the continuous...
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by John Quelch
- Profile
Jonathan Bailey
perspective really distinguish HBS from other business schools," Jonathan believes. "The school sets a higher bar. It's not easy and requires considerable thought and preparation. There's a great deal of attention to bringing...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
corporate wellness market by partnering with health plans and employers, and has expanded into more general health and wellness areas, with apps for people who want to eat better, for instance, or be more fit. After discovering that their technology could help...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
he says. After HBS, Navarro worked at Hewlett-Packard, where he designed computer systems. Later, he moved to a small high-tech start-up, where he repositioned the company to product development. After he “retired” in 2000, he turned his View Details