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How Companies Can Profit from a "Growth Mindset"
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1411A-EStrategyPsychologist Carol Dweck's work on "mindset" has been hugely influential in fields such as education and sports training, and her 2006 book Mindset was a bestseller. Some people, Dweck has argued, view talent as a quality they either possess or lack, and thus have a "fixed mindset"; others, with a "growth mindset," consistently see potential to develop new skills. Now she is extending her work on mindset to organizations. This article describes h...Starting at €8.20
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How to Lie with Charts
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1412Z-EStrategyData can be easily manipulated to tell a desired story, manufacture good results, or exaggerate a trend. Don't get fooled by these infographics tricks. Due to the highly graphical nature of the Vision Statement, we offer this reprint in color, PDF format only. We recommend printing it out in color to maximize its effectiveness.Starting at €8.20
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Why Some Videos Go Viral
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1509Z-EStrategyA viral video is every marketer's dream. Social viewers--people who watch shared content rather than videos they've found by browsing--are far more likely to buy a product and recommend it to others. But it remains a mystery to most companies why some videos catch fire and others just sputter out. Unruly, a marketing technology company, offers an answer. Its analysis of 430 billion video views and 100,000 consumer data points reveals the two most...Starting at €8.20
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When Platforms Attack
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1510A-EStrategyAmazon began life as an online bookseller, of course, but now there are few products you can't buy on the site. New research led by HBS's Feng Zhu investigates a common worry of Amazon's third-party sellers: What happens when, instead of just matching buyers and sellers, the platform decides to offer competing products itself? Zhu's team examined 164,000 products sold exclusively by third parties and found that 10 months later, Amazon had begun d...Starting at €8.20
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Competing with a Goliath, Debrief Slides
Harvard Business ReviewCase HBS-HPT018-EStrategyPowerPoint slides for Product Numbers: R1610L, R1610X, and R1610Z.Starting at €8.20
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Second Thoughts About a Strategy Shift, Teaching Note
Harvard Business ReviewTeaching Note HBS-HTN003-EStrategyTeaching Note for Product Numbers R1412K, R1412X, and R1412Z.Starting at €0.00
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Challenge the Middlemen Teaching Note
Harvard Business ReviewTeaching Note HBS-HTN015-EStrategyTeaching Note for Product Numbers: R1512K, R1512X, and R1512Z.Starting at €0.00
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Aldi: The Dark Horse Discounter
Van Den Steen, Eric; Lane, DavidCase HBS-714474-EStrategyIn 2013, Aldi-the world's 8th largest retailer-planned to accelerate its US expansion. Aldi was a German-based hard discounter that sold a limited assortment of private-label groceries and household items in barebones stores. Despite its presence with 1200 stores in 32 states, Aldi was still relatively unknown in the US. But it was often cited as one of the reasons for Walmart's exit from Germany. Could it compete with Walmart in the US, Walmart'...Starting at €8.20
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Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-715411-EStrategyLate in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering how and whether to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India, while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of Indian villagers.Starting at €8.20
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How Hierarchy Can Hurt Strategy Execution
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R1007E-EStrategyIn a recent survey, HBR readers told us how well they think strategy is developed in their organizations, which obstacles get in the way of effective execution, what kind of impact the financial downturn has had, and more. The most basic-and the most complicated- problem in business is figuring out how to move from a great, high-level idea to practical, operational success. In this issue's Spotlight, HBR looks at some of the most vexing strategy...Starting at €8.20