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03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ensuring the health of their employees and their families by demanding more aggressive requirements from their health plans or they must work directly with large health systems. At this stage in our nation's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

22 Feb 2022
News

Brand New

meeting unprecedented demand: The furniture industry, used to 2 percent to 4 percent annual growth, Sundy says, has seen that climb to between 30 percent and 40 percent. “The question now is, How do you manage a business through the... View Details

Keywords: April White; manufacturing; life experience; leadership; Black; African American; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

through an auction, it does not set prices. See, e.g., Larry Page's May 2008 remarks to C|NET: "AdWords is an auction. We're not setting prices. Auctions are determined by supply and demand." 1 I... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

minute—and the decision of whether to ride it out and hope for a recovery or to blink and 'puke their position' (pardon the phrase but it's how actual traders describe it)—to be an extremely harrowing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

firms are frequently targets of patent litigation. In many cases, an established firm, frequently one whose competitive position and innovative activity are declining, realizes it has a valuable stockpile of issued patents. This firm then... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

22 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights

Business competitiveness, the economic strength of their operating environments, and their commitment to inclusion and diversity demand that they stay the course. Jessica... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

December 1998
Background Note

Retail Financial Services in 1998

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood

Provides an overview of the current restructuring that is taking place in the retail financial services industry. Provides a brief overview of the structural changes in banking, brokerage, insurance, and mutual funds. Used as background for examining the strategies of... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Economy; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Industry Growth; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

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01 Jun 2002
News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

scenario carries a caveat, though, according to research by HBS assistant professor Susan Kulp. Her work suggests that the profit gains of VMI depend on both the retailer's willingness to provide detailed demand information View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

Maker Scholar was born! Now I’m selling greeting cards, custom art, and really a whole lot of other stuff I make with my hands and some art supplies via Shopify View Details

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

For millions of TV watchers, the commercial break is an annoyance of the past, thanks to the fast-forward button on their digital video recorders. Consequently, advertisers are turning to the web, where popular sites such as YouTube and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

October 1992 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Gap, Inc., The: Building a Brand

By: Walter J. Salmon and David Wylie

Explores the circumstances under which a specialty store chain can profitably engage in large-scale non-price advertising. View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Brands and Branding; Supply Chain Management

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June 1996 (Revised February 1998)
Case

Repositioning Ranbaxy

A leading Indian pharmaceutical company reacts to changes in its industry by trying to reposition along several dimensions from developing markets to developed ones, from bulk drugs toward pharmaceuticals in dosage forms, and from reverse-engineering products developed... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Industry Structures; Pharmaceutical Industry; India

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25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The... View Details

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

wind farm operator at the port. Running 24/7, the center monitors ships going to and from the turbines and crews working on them, as well as weather forecasts and energy View Details

2010
Working Paper

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Growth; Product Development; Behavior; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

linkages with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential to create specialized training programs in the local... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

August 1995 (Revised January 1997)
Exercise

Consumer Behavior Exercise (C)

By: John A. Deighton and Susan M. Fournier

Students are instructed to interview a recent purchaser of a high-involvement/ego-expressive product or service in depth about his/her buying decision. The exercise provides students with first-hand understanding of important concepts in consumer choice domain (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior

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