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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a much better deal from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
of an organization than the people in the middle and on the front lines."—Lynn Paine The team noticed key differences according to who authored each code: Those written by business practitioners generally emphasized the company's financial View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
systems. The links between multinational firms form a distinct type of international system for the private sector—one that is simultaneously enmeshed in geopolitics and international markets even as it is also autonomous from them. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
health care, just about every aspect of our lives was affected by breakthroughs in information technology. Underlying the possibility and challenge of all this creative destruction were two larger systems: the global financial View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision making on the part of those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
is a network of successful private health clinics that primarily serve middle-income populations but which have the potential to reach low-income markets. On what basis should Acumen decide whether or not to invest? What performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," as well as new work on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace