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16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2017 (Revised March 2023)
Background Note

This note describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow policies, materials... View Details

Keywords: Production Management; Production Planning; Production Scheduling; Process Analysis; Process Maps; Processing Times; Process Improvement; Production; Management; Product; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

her latest book. An authority on business history as well as branding, consumer behavior, and business strategy, Koehn cut her historical teeth on understanding and interpreting the economic and social contexts for businesses. In Brand... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

firms in industrialized countries, while the new study finds market orientation—where the interests of customers are placed first among stakeholders—is more central to the high performance Asian firms. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Why Brexit is a Big Deal

The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic. Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Mar 2006
News

The Real Conflict

intermediaries such as Wal-Mart against a combination of old-line retailers and labor, community, and development activists. Particularly in retailing, policies in the United States favor consumers and offer... View Details

Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

29 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Emerging Into Singapore

I arrived to Singapore with little expectations of what the city, office, culture, and people would be like. I was excited to start, but like a cub stepping out for the first time, I was anxious about jumping into the real world in a new... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2024
Background Note

Physical Climate Risk

By: Michael W. Toffel, Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart

This note describes how managers can identify their company’s physical climate risks, which can heighten the risk of business disruption, change the costs of operations and supply chains, and affect the demand for their goods and services. The note also provides a... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Maps; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Modeling And Analysis; Climate Change; Risk Management; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruption

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Educators

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

make talent clusters important,” Kerr says. Talent opportunities in a new remote world So how might businesses plan for the future when it comes to attracting the right talent? “If you're trying to create a global-dominating consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse of their field by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings and questions View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

Uber and its ilk, but then spells out various ways consumers might be negatively affected by the business practices of transportation network companies (or TNCs). IS UBER DRIVING UP YOUR CAR INSURANCE RATES?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

January 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Case

SuperCat Powerboats (A)

By: James L. Heskett

Ryan and David Kratz have formed a new company, under very favorable terms, with a fiberglass boat builder. But at the signing of the agreement for the new company's information, the builder's spouse suggests that the Kratz's share of ownership be reduced from 67% to... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation; Ownership Stake; Consumer Products Industry

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05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

course of their lives,” Beshears says. “It’s not merely a matter of building it and then people will come. You actually need to place it right front and center. Otherwise it’s very easy for people to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Entrepreneurship Essentials

Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 1, 2019 View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 12 Sep 2018
HBS Online

HBX Entrepreneurship Essentials

Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: September 12, 2018 - October 10, 2018 View Details

October 2021
Supplement

Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (B)

By: Kris Ferreira, Kym Lew Nelson, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Sarah Mehta

This (B) case accompanies the (A) case of the same title. View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Business Organization; Family Business; Joint Ventures; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Fairness; Ownership; Supply Chain Management; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Ohio

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September 1991 (Revised March 2005)
Case

WPP Group and Its Acquisitions

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

WPP Group acquired J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, paying high premiums in relation to earnings. In each acquisition the goodwill acquired was immediately charged off against owners' equity. Then, WPP Group established a value for the brand names of the two... View Details