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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
sustain his regime and transform Panamanian society; Noriega continued it in order to destroy anyone who threatened his control over the profits from corruption and cocaine. Once the United States removed Noriega through the brute...
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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
research company. These businesses were the product of past rational calculations, and some remained profitable and successful operations, but by the 1970s times had changed. Unilever found itself burdened, especially in Europe, with a...
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
Jr. Professor of Business Administration Fireside Chat: Pathways to Profitability Thomas R. Eisenmann (MBA 1983, DBA 1998), Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Jenn Hyman (MBA 2009), Rent the Runway 5:45–9:00 p.m....
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Past Issues - Alumni
and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can protect the planet’s soil—one garden at a time...
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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational View Details
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Anna Secino
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
necessary finance, there are contract manufacturers and perfumers that will provide a product for you. This is also an industry subject to sudden shifts in fashion and fads, which disrupt incumbent positions and provide opportunities for...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
insufficient) risk, forgo profitable projects, and ignore the cost of capital. We describe the causes of the problems associated with widely prevalent executive bonus plans and offer our recommendations for fixing them. We focus on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
performance indicators that shifts strategic decision making to customer-facing edges of the organization. Others advocate less sweeping but still significant changes: Housing the budgeting and strategic planning functions in one office,...
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by Loren Gary
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
World. The book’s authors, Harvard Business School Professors Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, say Peloton is just one example of how digital technologies such as analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally shifting...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
an FDA application. While the FDA’s standard new drug application review takes 10 months, the entire development process often takes more than a decade, says the CBO report. During that time, a drugmaker isn’t profiting from its...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
compared to Kmart. (The other companies in their quad were Target and the Limited.) Both companies were in roughly the same financial shape in 1986, but Dollar General grew steadily, showing healthy profits year after year. Meanwhile,...
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- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
relatively quickly at the consumer level,” Cavallo says. “That didn’t happen.” Instead, companies seemed to adopt a wait-and-see attitude with the trade war, frontloading some purchases before the tariffs took effect to minimize their effects, and View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
(virtually) talked with more than 50 “resilient” businesses across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
California retailing's best and brightest talent as it would assuredly do in the UK. Q: As sales remained under plan, Tesco execs halted development of new stores temporarily and made adjustments to those stores already open, such as View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
They find that the predation leads to profits of brokers’ clients of about 25 basis points and increases the liquidation costs of the distressed fund by 40%. See Andrea’s other research here , Marco’s other research here , Francesco’s...
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- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
clean bathrooms and parking lots, along with quick, friendly service. The result? In 2010, its by-store profit was almost double that of the top quartile of competitors. Since its founding in 1958 by Chester Cadieux and Burt B. Holmes,...
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
settings. CVS had to navigate a rapidly shifting competitive environment. Discovery Limited by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, and Aldo Sesia Discovery Ltd. is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s,...
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- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Professor. Henderson and Ramanna agree with Friedman's moral framework—but only when certain conditions are met. In many cases, they say, it is incumbent upon managers to shift their ethical framework in order to preserve the system of...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
being improved student outcomes and profits the company could reinvest in students. At a Gestamp automotive manufacturing plant 20 minutes east of downtown Chattanooga, high school students wearing shirts emblazoned with “WBL” (work-based...
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