Filter Results
:
(486)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(728)
- News (169)
- Research (486)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (311)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(728)
- News (169)
- Research (486)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (311)
Sort by
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
right solution for Bangladesh. He assembled a critical group of partners in a venture, GrameenPhone, which included Scandinavian telecom operators; Grameen Bank, the microfinance pioneer; Bangladesh Railways; as well as a Japanese...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
with issues of business leadership. They prompt the question of whether the highly-touted American style of management of the 90s is giving way to a new and different European style, just as Americans replaced Japanese management style as...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Business School Case 706-052 In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for Philippine nurses and other professionals. The same...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-067 Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of GPIF, the View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the past 27 years, its economy has grown at 1.1% annually, plagued by deflation. After several attempts at quantitative easing, Abe had commenced a radical program in 2012 called Quantitative and Qualitative Easing—the first of “three arrows” to repair the View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
screening rate for breast cancer, a disease that killed over 12,000 Japanese women in 2011. Cancer screening initiatives accounted for 60% of the company's 2013 sales of $2.5 million. Purchase this case:
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
with a colleague from Otsuka, Carson was offered the job of introducing Abilify to Japanese consumers. This new responsibility included the task of running clinical trials for Abilify in Japan. The project would require a deft cultural...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
sure people (managers in particular) don't get seduced by others' speaking skills. For example, in the article we discuss a manager for a global bank's Japanese subsidiary who promoted an individual he believed to be charismatic, based on...
View Details
Keywords:
Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
very ecumenical, flexible, and open to new ideas and people. It learns from best practices in other countries, and it adapts accordingly. A prime example is America's absorption of Japanese manufacturing techniques in the 1980s."...
View Details
Keywords:
by Garry Emmons
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
rationale for acquiring Whole Foods. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-041 Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Chinese companies. Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel has all but been blocked despite the Japanese firm’s planned $1.4 billion investment to improve U.S. Steel’s older mills. When assessing regulatory risks as a...
View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and governance policies (e.g., distribute more...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
reason that the UK has been able to attract top Japanese and German company investment is that it is both a relatively efficient place to do business and one with access to the broader EU market. Companies in the United States have also...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
performance. Using panel data from the Japanese National Hospital Organization, we analyze performance improvements following regulation requiring standardized measurement and peer disclosure of absolute and relative patient satisfaction...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
sellers creates fragility-higher concentration results in more volatile risk premiums. I also employ a number of complementary approaches to address identification, such as using the 2011 Japanese tsunami as an exogenous shock to the risk...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812096-PDF-ENG Hayman Capital Management Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina, and Jared DourdevilleHarvard Business School Case 212-091 In late December 2011, Hayman Capital founder and portfolio manager Kyle Bass was reviewing...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Ricoh, the Japanese copier manufacturer, is committed to reducing its environmental impact to one-eighth of its 2000 levels by 2050. It has already introduced three stages of environmental awareness to its operations, and its recycled...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, forcing a massive federal bailout. And the Japanese...
View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
317-093 Elements of Japanese Corporate Governance No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317093-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-098 Health Catalyst Dan Burton, Health Catalyst CEO (HBS...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne