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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
and downtown Beijing, and during the trip we saw maybe one other car every five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China,...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
through 1992. Facing Ambiguous Threats Authors:Michael A.Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson. Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract On February 1, 2003, the world watched in horror as the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
have 420,000 well-trained Greeks abroad,” he says. To lure them back, people will need to see that they could come back to reduced taxes and available jobs. But most importantly, Greeks need to see that the country is truly on an upward trajectory, that this isn’t a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
percent of the country’s GDP but most private equity funds invest in its private sector. I think it is worth watching those firms that invest in the public sector as this is where new growth potential exists. Hong Kong There are fewer...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
market “slack” and the absence of any significant increase in wage pressures, suggesting that inflation will remain well contained for the near term. The Fed spends a good deal of time watching inflation expectations data, as those seem...
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- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
1980s, I watched the struggles of many of the large technology companies that we were competing against. I knew the people who were running these companies, and they were really smart. The typical explanation of why companies fail — what...
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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
sizeable group. The loyalty retailer then needs to watch carefully its generic prices and in the meantime offer a price matching guarantee with the EDLP player. Such a situation exists in the UK where grocer Asda, owned by Walmart,...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
“I came to the conclusion pretty quickly that I’d rather be on the business side than on the lawyer side because the lawyer was essentially a service arm to the business side, and the business side was really making the decisions,” says Dubinsky. During a class at HBS,...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform the same ritual, suggesting that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes, and values can shape or limit...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
such as the journalists, museums, and galleries who were watching the category emerge. Although Saffronart may have originated the practice of providing discursive descriptions of the art, it was soon joined in this practice by the other...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
(“Rocky”) Aoki fell in love with New York City. The son of a restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father’s first establishment. View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
1973, captures the essence of denial. You didn't have to be a genius to see "these things." Thanks to the transparency of retailing, all you had to do was to walk into a store and try to buy a steak, try to buy broccoli, watch your child...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Watch out for a new brand of consumer in...
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets
watched a short video of Yusuf Hamied discussing the necessity of incremental innovation in the pharmaceuticals industry in the 2000s. Lively discussion then ensued, moderated by HBS Professors Tarun Khanna, Srikant Datar, and Geoffrey...
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