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- 04 Mar 2015
- News
Did the Airlines Actually Eliminate Fuel Surcharges?
- 24 Sep 2018
- News
Want to Seem More Likable? Try This
- 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.
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
Summing Up Paul Jackson sums up the thinking of most respondents to this month's column with the comment, " . . . nothing about CEO compensation seems to be 'efficient.'" Brad Millet adds, "The CEO market for mega-organizations operates in View Details
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by James Heskett
- July 2020
- Case
Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within
When Kathy Fish, Procter & Gamble’s Chief Research, Development & Innovation Officer, and a 40-year company veteran, stepped into her role in 2014, she was concerned that the world’s leading consumer packaged goods company had lost its capability to produce a steady...
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Keywords:
Female Protagonist;
Organizational Change;
Organizational Behavior;
Culture Change;
Digital;
Innovation;
Lean Startup;
Experimentation;
Metrics;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Disruption;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Transformation
Truelove, Emily, Linda A. Hill, and Emily Tedards. "Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within." Harvard Business School Case 421-012, July 2020.
- July 2005 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
The U.S. Current Account Deficit
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael Di Tella, Ingrid Vogel, Renee Kim, Sarah Jeong, Matthew Johnson and Jonathan Schlefer
Investors and policymakers throughout the world were confronted with the risk of painful economic consequences arising from the large U.S. current account deficit. In 2007, the U.S. current account deficit was $731 billion, equivalent to 5.3% of GDP. The implications...
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Keywords:
World Economy;
Macroeconomics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Currency;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Business and Government Relations;
United States
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael Di Tella, Ingrid Vogel, Renee Kim, Sarah Jeong, Matthew Johnson, and Jonathan Schlefer. "The U.S. Current Account Deficit." Harvard Business School Case 706-002, July 2005. (Revised September 2020.)
- 01 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS
to providing you with options and support to help finance your MBA. Even as the long-term earnings of a Harvard MBA continue to increase, we continue to work on making our MBA Program affordable for all....
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
By: Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off coupon they received from their...
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Keywords:
Spending;
Consumer Behavior;
Mathematical Methods;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry
Milkman, Katherine L., John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman. "Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-024, September 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- Research Summary
Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,...
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- September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In...
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Keywords:
Legal Industry;
Procurement;
Professional Service Firms;
Pricing;
Competition;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Legal Liability;
Business Processes;
Legal Services Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gardner, Heidi K., and Silvia Hodges Silverstein. "GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services." Harvard Business School Case 414-003, September 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- March 2018
- Article
Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor
Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor...
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van Waijenburg, Marlous. "Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor." Journal of Economic History 78, no. 1 (March 2018): 40–80.
- 2023
- Chapter
Economic Globalization and Populism in Latin America and Beyond
By: Paula Rettl
Both populism and economic globalization have been on the rise in the last decades, motivating increasing scholarly attention to the phenomena and their relationship (see Rodrik 2021 for a recent review). However, the relationship between populism and economic...
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Keywords:
Populism;
Economic Globalization;
Latin America;
Economy;
Macroeconomics;
Economics;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Globalization;
Political Elections;
Government and Politics;
Finance;
Geographic Location;
Latin America
Rettl, Paula. "Economic Globalization and Populism in Latin America and Beyond." Chap. 5 in Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond, edited by Anthony W. Pereira, 1967–1987. Routledge, 2023.
- February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Bairong and the Promise of Big Data
By: Lauren Cohen, Xiaoyan Zhang and Spencer C.N. Hagist
Bairong CEO Felix Zhang, in launching his credit scoring start-up that incorporates 74,000 variables per individual, found strong initial success. However, the shifting regulatory environment, growing breadth of competitors, difficulties in retaining top talent, and...
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Keywords:
Fintech;
Big Data;
Artificial Intelligence;
Credit Scoring;
Finance;
Credit;
Business Startups;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analytics and Data Science;
China
Cohen, Lauren, Xiaoyan Zhang, and Spencer C.N. Hagist. "Bairong and the Promise of Big Data." Harvard Business School Case 221-068, February 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
Pay Transparency
- 2010
- Working Paper
Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries
By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
We study how trade policy affects firms' ownership structures. We embed an incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the...
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- November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003
Centre Partners, a leading private equity firm, is contemplating ways to realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this...
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El-Hage, Nabil N., and Christopher Edward James Payton. "Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003." Harvard Business School Case 207-077, November 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- 07 Jun 2013
- News
New Guru: Michael Norton of Harvard Business School
- 15 Nov 2012
- News