The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2010
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Learning to Discount All Those Juicy Discount Offers

01 Dec 2021
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18 Books Every Business Leader Should Read

13 May 2019
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Banning immigrants’ languages can backfire. Just ask Ohio and Indiana.

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Growing as a Purposeful Leader

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission (more than profit),... View Details

August 1994
Case

Intuit, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

The merger of two computer software firms with very rapidly growing non-overlapping products makes great strategic sense, but presents difficult valuation and accounting problems. How can a firm pay $225 million to acquire another firm with negligible current earnings,... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Goodwill Accounting; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry; United States

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01 Oct 2013
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Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

17 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Innosight

Catherine Curtis, Global Recruiting Manager, Innosight Describe your organization in three to five sentences. Innosight is a growth strategy consulting firm that helps leading organizations to design and create the future, instead of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

What five extraordinary leaders during turbulent times can teach today's leaders

Historian Nancy Koehn says great leaders are not born, they're made.

Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, is the author of a new book called "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times." It examines the lives, successes... View Details

12 Jan 2014
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Better measuring a country

03 Sep 2017
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A welfarist role for non-welfarist rules

06 May 2019
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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

06 Feb 2015
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Why Twitter’s CEO is under pressure

30 Jan 2022
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Rahul Bajaj: “To Provide Continuity, That Is What an Owner Does”

04 Mar 2021
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Sole proprietors, contractors, and freelancers now qualify for bigger PPP loans

24 Apr 2013
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Windfall or bust? Crowdfunding may not turn out to be boon that many small businesses expect

Josh Baron

Dr. Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a part of the Strategy Unit. In the MBA program, he teaches in the Required Core Strategy course as well as elective courses on Ownership and Leading a Family Business. He... View Details

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Masters of Strategy

By: David B. Yoffie

Over the last two decades, Professor Yoffie has written numerous cases on Intel, Microsoft, and Apple. In a new research project with Professor Michael Cusumano of MIT, the authors are examining what made Andy Grove of Intel, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Steve Jobs... View Details

07 May 2021
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From Dutch Tulips to Internet Stocks, How to Spot a Financial Bubble

October 2017 (Revised September 2022)
Teaching Note

Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision

By: Willy Shih

This case is about globalization: a Chinese company has decided to locate a production facility close to its customers in the U.S., but a recent contract bid means it will lose money, at least initially, by supplying product from that factory. The purpose of this case... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chains; Labor Market; Labor Supply; Arbitrage; Tradable Sector; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Labor; Globalization; Globalized Markets and Industries; Geographic Location; Auto Industry; United States; China