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- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data This study proposes a practical and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
Said Dodd of the conference's goals: "We wanted to ignite aspirations and implant some ideas for people to think about pursuing in the future." The Cyberposium (http://wasat.hbs.edu/cmc/cyberposium) offered a comprehensive look at an emerging industry that is fast... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
Microsoft, as the leader in one generation of technology, becoming the dominant player in the next generation. As long as Microsoft continues to re-deploy the margins in its core business to explore new ones, chances are the market and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
implications are a mixed bag. While taxpayers and policymakers endorse some aspects, others are widely rejected. “My paper is about revising economists' dominant approach to evaluating taxes so that it reflects this messier reality.” For... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
the most basic medical services. China is still governed by a staunchly Communist regime, and both its industrial infrastructure and capital markets are dominated by state-owned enterprises. These are not the kinds of conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
yourself an entrepreneur? Yes. It’s really at the heart of our success. Our very harsh reality is that we are in a business that is dominated by enormous global brewing conglomerates, with some of the best managers in the world, people... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
thoughtful practitioners committed to addressing how gender, race, class, and other axes of dominance and oppression reproduce structural inequalities in organizations. To this end, we are excited to bring in the expertise of our esteemed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
including travel, banking, telecommunications, and credit card services. Not satisfied with dominating Japan’s e-commerce landscape, Mikitani believes the company’s future lies in taking its online expertise global. Since 2008, Rakuten... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
importance of analyzing issues, listening to others, exercising judgment, and making difficult decisions. For Bence, arriving at HBS was a unique experience. “I was from the Midwest in a class dominated by students from both coasts,”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the stranglehold of the View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
necessarily a panacea for the world's ills. In the new economy, all of the world was supposed to follow the trail laid down by the United States. It was a trail dominated by high-tech firms, by financial firms, by the information-based... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- Web
Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
people judge and respond to group-based disparities and discrimination. Her research examines how dominant and subordinate group members reason about group-based discrimination and disparities. She aims to leverage her research to bolster... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
Row On
Times. When he returned to Boston in 2004, he joined HBS classmate Chuck Pieper in addition to Roger Borggaard and Fred Schoch to make up a formidable team. Dubbing themselves “the Four Horsemen,” the men dominated in their age class,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
accurately, your hologram or avatar) can, among other things, go to school, go to work, play games, watch concerts, and browse stores. For Facebook, or now Meta, its dominance in social networking combined with a Meta-based strategy is an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t solve the challenges of global... View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
said in the working paper, Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy. The US-China trade tensions, which have been roiling global stock markets, will likely dominate conversations when leaders... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
In this excerpt, Nohria and Leestma outline the challenges and rewards awaiting businesses that target the mobile-commerce customer. The best place to start? Develop a thorough knowledge of consumer behavior.The race for dominance in... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
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Europe - Global Activities 2020
York Stock Exchange to drum up economic activity. It includes a country overview and lengthy summary of four centuries of history, including Serbia’s many decades as a dominant member of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. With... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
dominance versus global or Western engagement. The regime’s sober assessment tipped the choice for negotiated political reconciliation, global engagement, and democratic economic governance. Nigeria is moving away from oil, and... View Details