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- 21 Mar 2011
- News
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
- 03 Apr 2011
- News
The Matchmaker
- 07 Jul 2017
- News
Can money buy happiness?
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Major League Baseball: Changing the Rules of America’s Pastime
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Mac Levin and Brent Schwarz
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 924-307. The Teaching Note offers suggestions for using the case as a “product innovation” for different levels of students and their knowledge of baseball. Discussion plan questions for instructors are provided in the context of MLB’s...
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- 19 May 2017
- News
Minimum wage increases can kill businesses — if they already stink
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Perks of the LVMH Family
such a multi-brand scale that is Sephora! The first thing I noticed is just the difference in complexity. At Sephora you have hundreds of people perusing, sampling, asking questions, etc. at the same time,...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- Web
Activities, Government & Clubs - MBA
Association Other Activities Club Conferences Other Student Organizations New Venture Competition Clubs Student Clubs are a vital part of the HBS Community experience that support the school's mission to educate leaders who View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
China, Hong Kong, and the world, but in a very different global context. President Peter Mathieson believed that HKU still had an important role to play but knew that HKU needed to adapt to China's growing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Overview
By: Benjamin C. Esty
I created and teach a course called Strategies for Value Creation (SVC). It is designed to be a capstone course in the Elective Curriculum (EC or second year of the MBA program) that integrates and further develops concepts developed in several Required Curriculum (RC...
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- Article
The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive Costs of Faking It
By: Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Although people buy counterfeit products to signal positive traits, we show that wearing counterfeit products makes individuals feel less authentic and increases their likelihood of both behaving dishonestly and judging others as unethical. In four experiments,...
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Gino, Francesca, Michael I. Norton, and Dan Ariely. "The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive Costs of Faking It." Psychological Science 21, no. 5 (May 2010): 712–720.
- Research Summary
Overview
In my research historical inquiry plays an important part in understanding the continuities from the pre-1949 past and the complex convergence of business institutions in the process of China’s current economic, political, and social modernization. Historians are able...
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- October 2011
- Article
Fair Pricing
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper explores the consequences of supposing that consumers see a firm as fair if they cannot reject the hypothesis that the firm is somewhat benevolent towards them. When consumers can reject this hypothesis, some become angry, which is costly to the firm. The...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "Fair Pricing." Journal of the European Economic Association 9, no. 5 (October 2011).
- 20 Oct 2021
- News
Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making
- September 1995
- Case
Benjamin Rosen and Compaq
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
Addresses the challenges faced by Ben Rosen and the company board of directors as continuing problems force it to make a decision about the ongoing governance of the firm. The issues are complicated by the current CEO and founder, Rod Canion, who has had, until...
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Governing and Advisory Boards;
Management Teams;
Business or Company Management;
Corporate Governance;
Problems and Challenges;
Decision Making;
Information Technology Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Jason Green. "Benjamin Rosen and Compaq." Harvard Business School Case 296-002, September 1995.
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Goh’s primary research interest is applying mathematical models to real-world problems in health care in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision making and health policy. His recent work in this domain focuses on developing new methods for...
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- October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)
By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney
The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Cost Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
Buildings and Facilities;
Green Building;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Customer Satisfaction;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Machinery and Machining;
Asset Pricing;
Corporate Finance;
Capital;
Cost;
Financial Management;
Goods and Commodities;
Compensation and Benefits;
Executive Compensation;
Employee Relationship Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Resource Allocation;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Arizona;
California;
Texas
Heese, Jonas, and Susan Pinckney. "Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-002, October 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 2011
- Teaching Note
UFIDA (B) (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Bin Yang and E. Chen
This case highlights the leadership, cultural and organizational structure dimensions of UFIDA. The case begins with Founder/Chairman Wang Wenjing's rags-to-riches story. Then UFIDA's senior and middle management of different backgrounds talk about their leader,...
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Computer Software;
Corporate Vision;
Emerging Markets;
Leadership;
Organizational Structure;
China;
Applications and Software;
China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Bin Yang, and E. Chen. "UFIDA (B) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
awarded a French accolade, Officer de La Legion D'Honneur, the highest honor France had yet bestowed upon a Chinese entrepreneur, but his shareholders don't have much to show for the deal. TCL had to write...
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by Tarun Khanna
- August 2019
- Case
The United States and Russia: Gas Rivals in Europe?
By: Rawi Abdelal, Galit Goldstein and Paul Apostolicas
Though the shale revolution transformed the U.S. into the largest producer of petroleum products, it was unclear how much success American exporters would find selling liquefied natural gas on the European energy market. Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian energy...
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Keywords:
Gas Pipelines;
Natural Gas;
LNG;
Strategic Analysis;
Strategic Behavior;
Energy Markets;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Entrepreneurial Risk;
Entrepreneurial Ventures;
Entrepreneurial Selling;
Energy;
Energy Sources;
Entrepreneurship;
Market Entry and Exit;
Marketing Strategy;
Price;
Energy Industry;
Russia;
United States;
Europe;
European Union
Abdelal, Rawi, Galit Goldstein, and Paul Apostolicas. "The United States and Russia: Gas Rivals in Europe?" Harvard Business School Case 720-006, August 2019.
- May 2007
- Article
Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers
By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function of locations' knowledge activity, their own capabilities, and...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
For-Profit Firms;
Knowledge Management;
Research and Development;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Five Forces Framework;
Cost Management;
Technology;
Competition;
United States
Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers." Management Science 53, no. 5 (May 2007): 760–776.