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- 01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice
of a product you know will be controversial? Resolving such dilemmas often requires more than simply following the injunction to "do the right thing," says HBS professor Joseph Badaracco in Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose...
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- 03 Sep 2019
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Conspiracy theories are a dangerous threat to our democracy
- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck
- 03 Oct 2016
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Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation
- 11 Feb 2014
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The Trouble with Sunspots
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a...
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Garry Emmons
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
set for massive positive impact, and the demand is there; the only real impediment is bold philanthropy,” Wolf says. At HBS, Wolf studied with Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation describes a process by which a View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Today, 25 years later, Hoa is still living in Hanoi and doing her part to help her impoverished country establish a modern, productive economy. As managing director of Galaxy Company, a successful consulting firm, her advice on doing...
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Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
As those pressures increase, we see a downward spiral that starts with the revenue declining, then the newsroom shrinking, the product getting worse, and the business model collapsing. At the same time, we’re in the middle of this...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
charity, instead of having them buy a product and then 10 percent of that goes to charity, as is typical. Giving customers money to give to others makes them happier and is a strong signal that the company is really genuine. This question...
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April White
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
outlines—the “theory of jobs to be done”—and how that concept might play out in the auto industry. —Dan Morrell Your theory essentially reframes how managers think about their products or services—as a sort...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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New Releases
boundaries and making the relationship between organizations and markets much more complex." To address such complexities, Jensen, the School's Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, presents a new, integrated theory of...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
What do men want? The conventional theory — the so–called compensatory consumption thesis — has held that men are torn between responsibility and domesticity on the one hand and a desire to live the untethered, exciting life of the rebel...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Sharique Hasan in a recent working paper. Their field research shows that the highest quality ideas are generated by people open to new experiences engaging with extroverted peers. In 2014, the researchers headed to New Delhi to study the intersection of personality...
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Jennifer Myers
- 15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
with partner companies in Shanghai on specific projects, and in the afternoon, all students reconvened for a behind-the-scenes tour of a local facility in Shanghai or Hangzhou. “We were able to get access to some amazing places,” says Shih, an expert in manufacturing...
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