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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
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Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After...
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Entrepreneurship;
Governance;
History;
Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Turkey
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Special Issue on Business Groups around the World. Business History 58, no. 1 (2016): 69–88.
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the real-world challenges they must...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
school's leaders were closely involved in progressive reforms and presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
manufacturer (ODM)? Tung Lung Metal Industries Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese maker of door lock hardware that is faced with the question of whether to continue to focus on its ODM business or start placing more emphasis on its own brand...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Street (OWS), a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers' cooperative in 2005 into a branded snack foods manufacturer on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
511-075 By 2009, Hikma Pharmaceuticals operated 13 manufacturing plants in 8 countries of which 5 were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Hikma tracked its sales revenues over the period to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
manufacturers who wish to build an exclusive platform for patients taking their medications. But Barry, against the advice of her management team, is considering an alternative business model, which would open the platform up to all View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of...
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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
sales tax can be complicated: if a customer pays $20 to eat food that costs $35 at a restaurant's menu prices, should the customer pay sales tax on $20 or $35? (In Massachusetts, the Department of Revenue has confirmed the former—though...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
even more learners, and we’re running a number of experiments to try and get to non-linear growth. Editor's note: Dean Datar's response applies to both of the following questions: Along with another HBS sectionmate, Steve Sarver, I operate a View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian...
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Deborah Blagg
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
KindredHarvard Business School Case 513-052 Patrick Coveney, CEO of Greencore, one of the top producers of private label prepared foods sold through UK grocery retailers, was assessing Greencore's growth options. Growth potential was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Eric%20Werker%20RR%20final.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-024 Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company In 2010, Tom Linebarger, president and COO of Cummins, Inc., the...
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Anna Secino
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales and a manufacturing function within a firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
trade to non-NAFTA partners grew by 195%. Critics of NAFTA claimed that it had contributed to a loss of manufacturing jobs to Mexico, increased inequality in all countries, and undercut environmental laws. Those who supported NAFTA,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the United States. Download working paper:
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Sean Silverthorne