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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

 

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

  PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 1998 (Revised October 1999)
  • Case

Han Young Labor Dispute (A), The

Examines the evolution of a labor dispute at the Han Young maquiladora in Tijuana, Mexico. The dispute began over union representation at a 120-worker company, but soon escalated into a source of tension between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and a test for the... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; International Relations; Labor Unions; Trade; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Government Relations; Canada; United States; Mexico
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  • 23 Feb 2010
  • News

A Search Engine for Global E-commerce

Keywords: Wholesale Trade
  • 15 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

will trade a few hours of sun bathing for bargain hunting? "Whether July 15 is the right day or not, I don't know," Gupta said. "But I think it's a good idea to keep it well away from Black... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

No Small Beer

The biggest thing in the beer business these days is the little guy. Research firm Technomics reported that the craft beer and premium import market rose almost 15 percent in 2012, with an "upward trajectory" that continued in 2013. And beer makers are looking to meet... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; craft beer; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
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Nicole Ledoux

returned stateside to help build a new sell-side fixed income rates business for State Street Global Markets, trading swaptions and FX options. Nicole enjoys advising students exploring various functions in entrepreneurship and finance,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Investment Management; Financial Services (All)
  • February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin
Describes Williams-Sonoma's development of a third channel of business on the Internet. Describes the strategies for managing changes in the organizational, operational, and technological structure of the company. The new e-commerce division confronts challenges posed... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Internet and the Web; Trade; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; California
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  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

who accompanied his own goods to trade fairs. Taking this concept as its point of departure, this essay focuses on the predominantly Italian merchants who controlled the long-distance East-West View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

BSE in Canada

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kevin Allison
A cow was determined to have Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Canada, which closed its beef exports to the United States and 39 other countries. What future action should be taken, and how will country of origin specification and traceability take place in the... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Food; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Canada
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  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

benefits to many, and if we don't look out, we may kill it." From Prediction To Fruition Problems that forum participants cited included environmental degradation, trade breakdowns, and failure of the rule... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

for the addition to the company's balance sheet of a significant amount of new debt and a reshaping of the capital structure. While leveraged buyouts had been used in Europe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

traded the rights to Rudy Gay along with another Rockets fan favorite, Stromile Swift, to the Memphis Grizzlies for Shane Battier. Jeers of frustration rang from the Rockets fans. How could the Rockets View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris

art history major, would rather trade Friday night lights for First Fridays with friends at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Was coming to HBS a joint decision? It wasn’t – Tyler knew much earlier that she... View Details
  • June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (C)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Investment; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Development Economics; Financial Crisis; State Ownership; Sovereign Finance; Business Strategy; Dubai
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  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

ambition of Uribe or his possible like-minded successor was to secure U.S. Congressional approval of a free trade agreement signed in 2006. But would it really help Colombia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 Colonial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

will be a hit or a flop.) Tricks of the Trade When tracking brain functions, neuroscientists generally use either electroencephalography (EEG) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology. EEG... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS

475baf4874c54b74d6872cb82ffdcb34 Amid the backdrop of U.S.-Chinese relations — tension over trade issues and Taiwan’s independence on the one hand, cooperation on terrorism and North Korea on the other —... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government