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- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
where the opportunity is,” Thacker explains. “It may not, overall, be the most beautiful city, but there are pockets of the city that are absolutely stunning. And there’s a great deal of culture in the city. We’ve got one of the...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
2014) Angel investors could be a good fit if you can tap either friends and family or local institutional angels. Although most large banks might not be interested, there may be a small regional bank that likes the mission and wants to be associated with the brand....
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
identification and party mapping, to "social mapping" and building guanxi, to creative deal design and tactics, in order to most effectively work out issues of equity, management control, territory, and exclusivity. Purchase the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
a new purpose for a corporation. And they listed five things. And in order those five things were number one, delivering value to customers. Fair enough. Number two, investing in our employees. Okay. Number three, dealing fairly and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
sufficient. Instead, the problem we have to deal with has as much to do with the supply side as the demand side. That's very different from the 1930s. Additionally, the demand-side problem that we’re facing now is fundamentally different...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
Beringer's deal certainly provides Foster's with greater distribution clout. Foster's expects to use Beringer's strong position in the U.S. to enhance the sales of its Mildara Blass wines there. Furthermore, the company hopes to use its...
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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
to act and less inclined to adopt the latest management fads, and less ruthless in dealing with failure and underperformance. However, there are vast industry and firm differences. Q: For those HBS Working Knowledge readers who work in...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
such as, "How do we deal with family relying too much financially on the business, because family dependence can drain the very life out of the business if we give in to it too much?" "How do we develop the next generation...
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by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered....
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by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language...
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- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
the amount of false information flowing on their platforms; the specter of the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress hangs heavy over the debate. But Kominers and Shapiro say the findings go beyond this year’s elections and have far-reaching implications for businesses...
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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
holds more than 50,000 retired cases used for teaching at HBS from the 1920s to the current day. These cases offer insight into the challenges facing companies and include historic and statistical data. There are over 500 retired cases View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
critical links in many global supply chains, particularly on the upstream supply end, so the group of 12 HBS faculty members and a colleague from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences visited companies that View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
opportunity for improvement. The average taxpayer has one interaction per year with us, but a small businessperson with a few employees may have to deal with us fifty times a year. If you fall behind, you can get in all sorts of tangles....
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Garry Emmons
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
the biggest risk now comes from Washington. It is never clear when the next salvo of export controls or restrictions will be imposed. China has become more predictable than the United States. “Multinational firms have long created risk mitigation strategies to View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
must be people-oriented. They must want to engage with people, whether it’s their own staff or the customers’ people. Customers come to us not to buy one product but to do a whole relationship. So we tend to focus on people who know how to View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
nonprofit—foundations, governments, donors—are usually different from the people benefiting from the work of the nonprofit. There are some exceptions in situations where fees are paid for services. But generally speaking a nonprofit CEO or board View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
company's choices in terms of strategy, control systems, and culture. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of dealing jointly with a market-wide crisis (subprime) and a company-level crisis. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne