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- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business management revolution among academics... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Nelson Hioe
In March 2006, Larry English, Director of Program Design and Innovation for Habitat for Humanity International Africa and the Middle East, was reflecting on a large development project in Durbin that had stalled. Notwithstanding global attention led by former President... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Property; Projects; South Africa; Middle East
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, and Nelson Hioe. "Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 207-016, November 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- March 2018
- Technical Note
Internet Data Capping Note (B)
By: Shane Greenstein and Christine Snively
The B note brings the reader up through early 2017 and addresses an informal review carried out by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) on sponsored data and zero-rating data plans in the mobile broadband market. View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
toward other interests. Staying on mission and building an effective organization to carry out the mission requires a clear strategic focus and a well-developed strategy backed by well-aligned operations.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was acquired by New York investment firm KKR. Shih discusses the... View Details
- 09 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
discussion at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. When Marc Levine was asked to head up an internal start-up at electronics equipment maker Teradyne Corporation, he jumped at the opportunity. And it paid off... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the decreasing revenues created falling margins and increased leverage throughout the industry. View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
visible, important ways. This hypothesis is reinforced by a growing number of academic studies indicating that a dollar spent on IT returns at least as much as a dollar spent on other forms of capital in many industries. These findings... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
‘Pretty Catastrophic’ Month for Retailers, and Now a Race to Survive
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive and higher quality. A panel moderated View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
gives you a heightened sensitivity to cultural differences, and how those differences are tied up in language." After 60 or so hours of Japanese language instruction, George could more or less carry on a conversation, and did so with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
that it’s easier for most people to make money than it is to give it away,” Stevenson recently told an audience at a Books@Baker event sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Many people don’t like to ask other people for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
for a while The technique of continuous forecasting was there, we just needed to adopt and tailor it. continuous forecasting/budgeting/planning requires more effort to think about the future than the former once-a-year event." The ultimate dilemma faced View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett