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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
the second theme, which is mass production. So we're taking the mechanization and we're just doing it faster and more of it. Once we get good at that, then we begin to run out of customers. Beginning after the Civil War into the turn of...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
relatively short time, much of the corporate debt that defaulted during the financial crisis has been managed down, mass liquidations have been averted, and corporate profits, balance sheets, and values have rebounded with remarkable...
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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
individuals, and a purely peer-based performance review and stack ranking. As customer demand and market forces draw Valve into hardware in 2013, Valve questions whether their organizational model will need to change as it expands from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Bureau of Business Research, a dedicated group of scholars under Copeland's direction that, from 1920 to 1925, developed and wrote cases for multiple courses. (Once a critical mass of materials was developed, Donham disbanded the bureau...
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by David A. Garvin
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
very limited by intent. Restricting content and making it hard to get was one of the rationales behind the campaign. What I like about the case is that it breaks so many fundamental marketing principles. One classic rule maintains that if you want to reach a broad...
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- 21 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products
Lauren and Katja results in a customized approach to recruiting that is highly effective and efficient. Getting the Word Out When meeting with Consumer Products companies, two recommendations that Lauren and Katja will often offer are 1)...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
EVs want to conquer the mass market, they’ll need to, well, crush it. Until recently, the EV market had a high end and a low end—but no real middle. On the one hand, there was Tesla, which entered the market from the top. On the other,...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
innovative design, supply logistics, and the need for superior customer service, and it’s easy to understand why David A. Birnbaum (MBA 1974), a private jeweler, would sound this cautionary note: “Luxury sounds very intriguing, but you...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel? What if we assumed that View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
solution identification. To help the hungry, he went to SNAP offices to observe and talk to people applying for food benefits. So, the practicalities involve customer discovery and even some prototyping, but with the public, not to them...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
Harvard Business School. “My sense from teaching many years is that this was a very interesting issue for executives because companies often don’t get it right.” A watch connoisseur himself, Thomke had been aware of the company for many years. Not flashy and not View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
invitation-only conferences are convened every few years (the one before this one was in 1995); the idea is to bring together a critical mass of the best thinkers in these industries for an intense session of discussion and debate....
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Previously, Martin, at French mass retailer The Casino Group, and Giraud, at Euro Disney (with Bourguignon), had both proven their mettle as managers in turnaround situations. Martin and Giraud stress that Club Med's core business is...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Entrepreneurs with demonstrated market-timing skill are also more likely to outperform industry peers in their subsequent ventures. This is consistent with the view that if suppliers and customers perceive the entrepreneur to have...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better...
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Dan Morrell
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With revenues growing at 9% annually...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
creation of a vision for the future that represents a significant departure from the past, one that requires breakthroughs for its realization; 2) the creation of a system that facilitates enrollment into and elicits voluntary commitment to the vision by the critical...
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Martha Lagace