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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar
This case describes how Ambareen Musa, Founder and CEO of Souqalmal, a Dubai-based online comparison aggregator of banking and insurance products launched her business in 2011 and rapidly grew it over next couple of years. However, by 2017, the Mauritian entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Unit Economics; Finance; Accounting; Competitive Strategy; Financial Statements; Insurance Industry; Middle East
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • November 2007
    • Supplement

    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.

    By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu
    How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's largest and first multinational, achieved its globally dominant position in generic pharmaceuticals, an industry that has... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Israel; India
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    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    potentially worth tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue for the league.” Unique aspects of the AFL, whose strict policies aim to keep player rosters evenly matched—made it a natural setting to examine this question. The AFL emphasizes View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct

    By: F. Christopher Eaglin
    Under what conditions do firms engage in strategic misconduct? Why do they undertake actions that increase profitability yet break laws or violate strong norms often with costly consequences for public welfare? The strategic management literature offers two external... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Capital Constraints; Organizations; Crime and Corruption; Behavior; Situation or Environment; Capital
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    • April 2020
    • Article

    Long-term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Manufacturers 1959–2015

    By: Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella, Gary P. Pisano and Federico Tamagni
    Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational “fitness” within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to... View Details
    Keywords: Firm Growth; Organizations; Growth and Development; Theory; Analysis; Production; Data and Data Sets
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      Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS)

      Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), I edit the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business... View Details
      • 15 Aug 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Legislating Stock Prices

      Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
      Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization

        William A. Sahlman

        William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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        • March 2007 (Revised June 2007)
        • Case

        Wal-Mart, 2007

        By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
        In 2007, Wal-Mart faced challenges to its historically high growth rate. Lagging same-store sales and setbacks overseas led the company to consider strategic shifts. Wal-Mart was the world's largest retailer, but competition had become particularly acute as the company... View Details
        Keywords: Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Rural Scope; Human Resources; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Marketing Strategy; Growth Management; Urban Scope; Retail Industry; United States
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        • 15 Dec 2015
        • First Look

        December 15, 2015

        forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 17 Mar 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: March 17, 2009

        to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
        • Case

        Phu My Hung

        By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
        Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic... View Details
        Keywords: Urban Development; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Viet Nam
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        • 08 Dec 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

        • Web

        HBS - The year in Review

        experienced colleagues. Assistant Professors Anjali M. Bhatt Organizational Behavior Julian De Freitas Marketing Summer R. Jackson Organizational Behavior Jung Koo Kang Accounting & Management Rebecca A. Karp Strategy Shirley Lu... View Details
        • 2004
        • Working Paper

        Regulation and Reaction: The Other Side of Free Banking in Antebellum New York

        By: David A. Moss and Sarah Brennan
        Free banking, which first appeared in the United States in the late 1830s, comprised two essential features: general incorporation for banks and rigorous security requirements for note issue. Because the general incorporation feature is what allowed free entry, it has... View Details
        Keywords: History; Law; Competition; Financial Liquidity; Money; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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        • Web

        Europe - Global

        the HBS network, Deon aims to foster economic growth and make Greece competitive with its European neighbors. Discover their innovative approach in this insightful article by Jen McFarland Flint. New Research on the Region December 2024... View Details
        • 20 Aug 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: August 20

        Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic... View Details
        Keywords: Anna Secino