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- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
'non-strategic traders,' " Cohen says. Historically, Wall Street has failed to consider the local ethnic population trading strategy when assessing the value of a firm. In fact, the researchers found that analysts are significantly less...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb...
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- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
they must be specific to the strategy of the business. Company scores on these metrics may be benchmarked against direct competitors and/or outstanding companies in other industries. Second, CEOs must ensure an adequate pipeline of new...
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by John Quelch
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling impact.” —Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
choice. For Lopez, that has meant deploying a multifaceted strategy with an underlying premise: Make the customer feel at home while providing a sense of escape. "My career has always been about consumer persuasion," says Lopez, who came...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
a media executive with 20 years of experience in strategy and business transformation who joined the foundation in February. “In AMP we talked about finding our North Star,” she says. “I’m fortunate because food is an authentic passion of...
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- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award in the Academy of...
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- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Montgomery (HarperBusiness) Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration, offers a new perspective on a business leader’s most vital role. She illuminates what strategy is, its importance, and what it takes to lead the...
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- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
neighborhoods, starting nonprofits to support education for girls in Rwanda, and guiding strategy in Boston’s Catholic schools. When he stepped into his current job in 2011, the chaos and noise included several recently settled sexual...
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- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Questions To Be Answered: What's the strategy for managing consumer reviews on my site? Do people watch online video ads?. How can I get more out of my customer loyalty campaign? Are online coupon programs like Groupon effective? What's...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Dilip Soman, we look at how different pricing strategies affect the consumption of a product. We find that people are more likely to consume a product when they feel "out of pocket." When the price paid for a product is very...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of inequality in wealth and power. The Execution Premium: Linking...
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- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
by offering both differentiation and low cost, that in fact the two strategies might feed on each other under the right circumstances to produce superior results for customers, employees, and investors. Two of the firms he studied were...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
access to the methods used to hack the iPhone? Should he alter Apple’s well-known strategy of creating an essentially closed (vs. Microsoft’s more open) system, one that welcomes only outsiders that are willing to design apps for Apple...
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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
store," he said. As the first conference in what is planned to be an annual event, the HBS Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3 was organized by two HBS student clubs, the Retail & Apparel Club and the Luxury Goods & Design Business Club. This...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
overworked, yet there's a huge gap in quality training for them." —Anthony Priest (MBA 1996) Program Specialist, Office of Career and Technical Education, District of Columbia Public Schools Marc Sternberg (MBA 2000) Senior Deputy Chancellor for View Details