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- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by leaders responsible for global...
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by James Heskett
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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) Course Number 1457 Professor Robin Greenwood Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Video: Market...
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- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Competition Corrupts Business Practices, suggests that many organizations in highly competitive markets are likely to bend the rules if doing so will keep their customers from leaving for a rival firm....
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New Program for Science-Based Businesses
HBS has launched a new Executive Education program designed to help leaders of science-based businesses meet the many distinctive challenges found in their industry. Leading Science-Based Enterprises, to be held on campus June 26–29, will...
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- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
destiny of the universe. This book continues to inspire me in ways I can't even put into words. Shunyuan Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Unit at HBS. You Might Also Like: The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- August 2012
- Article
A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending
By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda
We use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks-where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions-give larger loans to small firms and those with "soft...
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Geographic Location;
Customers;
Financing and Loans;
Credit;
Organizational Structure;
Banks and Banking;
Governance Compliance;
Competitive Strategy
Canales, Rodrigo, and Ramana Nanda. "A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending." Journal of Financial Economics 105, no. 2 (August 2012): 353–366.
- Research Summary
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity
By: Karen Mills
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been...
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- July 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Jay R. Girotto
In the wake of major competitive moves, CEO Tim Koogle and his senior team at Yahoo!, an Internet portal, must decide whether and how to adjust their strategy. Following deals between AOL and Netscape, Excite and @Home, Infoseek and Disney, and Snap and NBS, Yahoo!...
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Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Industry Structures;
Internet and the Web;
Risk Management;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Information Technology Industry;
Web Services Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., and Jay R. Girotto. "Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time." Harvard Business School Case 700-013, July 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- August 2007 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Gome Electronics: Evolving the Business Model
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Gao Wang, Fei Li, Tracy Manty and Waishun Lo
After 20 years of expansion, Gome Electronics has become China's largest consumer electronics retailer. It has opened stores in almost every province in China, acquired some of its competitors, and went public in Hong Kong. However, it has begun to experience a...
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Business Model;
Distribution Channels;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology;
Industry Growth;
Marketing Strategy;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Product;
Electronics Industry;
Retail Industry;
China
Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Gao Wang, Fei Li, Tracy Manty, and Waishun Lo. "Gome Electronics: Evolving the Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 308-026, August 2007. (Revised February 2008.)
- 12 May 2020
- News
ESG Investing Shines in Market Turmoil, With Help From Big Tech
- Web
Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
Can publically quoted firms ever be truly socially responsible? In 1958, HBS Marketing Professor Theodore Levitt wrote of the dangers of social responsibility, arguing that the function of business is to...
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- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
at Princeton University, the paper analyzes the difficulties of rating structured finance assets and the perils of relying on ratings to determine prices. "We began studying the corporate bond CDO market roughly three years ago and...
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Resources, Strategy, and Performance During Industry Replication: The Case of Emerging Markets Private Equity
Competitive dynamics in emerging markets private equity closely resemble those of nascent technology industries. This is because institutional voids undermine core components of the traditional PE business model. I am examining how resources shape strategy...
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Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Topics Topics Accounting Analytics Business Essentials Business in Society Career Development Communication Community ConneXt Decision-Making Digital Transformation Earning...
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- February 1988 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Government Redress of Market Imperfections: Procurement from Minority Firms
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "Government Redress of Market Imperfections: Procurement from Minority Firms." Harvard Business School Case 388-108, February 1988. (Revised January 1990.)
- 08 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
- 14 Aug 2014
- News
Leon Black’s Phaidon Buys Artspace, an Online Art Market
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Harvard Business School’s Former Dean Joins Kushner’s Thrive Capital
- January 2012 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market
Keywords:
Business Model;
Internet and the Web;
Renting or Rental;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Web Services Industry
Coles, Peter, Joshua Gans, and Wei-Yuan Yu. "Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market." Harvard Business School Case 912-009, January 2012. (Revised April 2012.)