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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the Japanese economy get off the ground, and the company's business there was dwarfed by its domestic business. But as Toyota's U.S. sales grew, political pressures increased the political and administrative distance between the two...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
ambiguity, motivated blindness, conflicts of interest, the slippery slope, and efforts of others to mislead us. As a manager, you can develop your noticing skills by acknowledging responsibility when things go wrong rather than blaming external View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Global e-Business Leader at Braxton, formerly Deloitte Consulting) urge managers to think as though they were settlers of a new business frontier that has been carved out by forces such as technology, societal change, political strife,...
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- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
aimed at increasing female labor force participation to compensate for Japan's aging population, reforms of the electric power sector directed at reducing electricity costs, and efforts designed to promote the "health and longevity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
required that they act rapidly. However, they had divergent views on the path forward. Should they stay the course and focus on their core competencies, or should they rethink their approach to sales and drive profitability via spot...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
industries, including timber, oil, gold, silver, and titanium. [ ] Under the widely practiced international sales system, a corporation in a developed nation sells finished goods to a consumer in a less-developed nation; this is...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
means to live in an era of globalization in a way that is far from abstract or academic." Needless to say, there are also many moments of revelation in the classroom. In a case discussion on Mary Kay cosmetics and the company's strategic use of pink Cadillacs as a...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an economic View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. In an age...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
States to the Jordanians. Proof of the venture's strategic benefits are apparent in sales that top $10-million in the first year of operation and are expected to exceed $25-million in the second. Collaborative ventures such as Century...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
sales force and establishing training courses in the United States for surgeons interested in learning the new techniques of bone fixation. More recently, he led the firm's global expansion by acquiring the...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
expansion." In this excerpt, they detail seven such strategies that corporate leaders can pursue. Pick Up the Scraps. As Peter Drucker recently noted, for every megamerger or large acquisition, there are usually several spin-offs, divestments, or asset View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
in a two-sided market. We compile a unique and comprehensive dataset using sales data from the U.S. daily deal market and specify a structural model based on Nash bargaining solutions. We find that Groupon, the larger deal platform, has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
coming, and entered services. If you look at the store today, almost a third of PetSmart's sales are in services, things like grooming or hoteling—those sales aren't going away, they are not threatened by...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide evidence of two coexisting and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
"Firms today have access to a wealth of information about customers and sales prospects," says Narayandas. "Now more than ever before, companies are able to leverage technology to work more closely and to collaborate in new...
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by Peter K. Jacobs