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- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools, and six small-group rooms. "The level use of experimental research at HBS has grown beyond what anyone imagined when we first built the CLER lab," says Director of Research Computing Chase Harrison. "We're constantly evaluating how...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for...
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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
fun because it's really hard work, they still have a deep level of attachment to their work. And you see that repeatedly with Irving. It's obvious that he just can't imagine himself doing anything else. That's a hallmark of outstandingly...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
store buyers. She was a determined, talented saleswoman, whose methods and commercial imagination can be illustrated by the case of Saks Fifth Avenue. That store's buyer for cosmetics in the late 1940s, Robert Fiske, was not initially...
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- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Would they exert influence to shape the environment? Or would they try to hedge? "They had to imagine themselves making a decision," Mikes says. "I asked them to be the CEO: 'Now that these scenarios have been presented to...
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money borrowed from our children. As...
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- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
Things some businesses will disappear, but new ones will appear." Dennis Hopwood said that "Capitalism periodically destroys and reconfigures previous economic orders through 'creative destruction' The tide goes out and the tide comes in." Others...
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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
schools-of-experience point of view. This can be done in three steps. First, imagine yourself at Pandesic on day one, when the executives were agreeing to start this disruptive venture. With only foresight and no hindsight allowed, what...
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by Michael Raynor
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
write down is not what will happen," Kraus says. "But by writing it down, you start with the imagination of what you want it to be, and then you recast it. A plan provides meaning and purpose." Data shows that entrepreneurs are more...
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- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
is above average. And in a lot of companies the way the system works is most CEOs want to be at the 75th percentile of the distribution of compensation. Well, you can imagine what happens. You get a ratcheting up effect as that...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Harvard Business School Case 709-007 Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced a daunting task that he never imagined he would have to face when he was elected two years ago. Australia at that time was poised to enter its 17th year of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
regulate one's mood in line with the social context, on congruity. Two experiments find that when low self-monitors imagine a context that differs in valence from their mood, they feel more distinctive from the environment while high...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
classic trading system of exchange is identified with David Ricardo, the early nineteenth-century economist who first analytically clarified it. Imagine that tribe A is good at both hunting and fishing, but more efficient at hunting....
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
talking about. Imagine that you are looking to replace the fence around your backyard, as my wife and I were a couple of years ago. What do you do? You talk to several fence contractors, and you get bids from a few who you think would do...
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by Julia Hanna
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
and shapers of, beauty ideals. It uses case studies of three prominent firms to support the argument. During the nineteenth century, Coty and other French firms imagined Paris as the global capital of beauty. During the middle of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
trying to get rid of intermediaries, one could figure out how to become one. "We talk about Variety, we talk about Sundance; they don't actually make films but are integral to creating a market for them. You can't imagine the film...
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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
Imagine two software engineers with similar technical training, both vying for recognition. One is located in London and the other in Bangalore. Both likely do similar work and may experience threats—distinct in intensity and nature—to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
business globally "as an engine of prosperity," said Nohria. "We have to open up the imagination of our students to recognize that leadership is needed today in all parts of the world - that there is a desperate and urgent...
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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
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
utility. The federal debt could be at $20 trillion, the top income tax rate at 45%, and the S&P 500 at 418. Ferguson, a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School, imagines that to be the worst-case scenario. The...
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Martha Lagace