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- September 2024
- Case
Cathay Cargo: Turnaround Short Haul, or Double Crew Long Haul?
By: Willy Shih and Billy Chan
Tom Owen, Director Cargo at Cathay Pacific Airways, had a problem. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the grounding of passenger flights meant the sudden loss of 50% of the airline's cargo carrying capacity. But the bigger challenge was that the Hong Kong government imposed... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Resource Allocation; Cash Flow; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Air Transportation Industry; Hong Kong
Shih, Willy, and Billy Chan. "Cathay Cargo: Turnaround Short Haul, or Double Crew Long Haul?" Harvard Business School Case 625-019, September 2024.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Collaborative Architectures for Innovation
By: Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti
Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge companies seeking to boost innovative performance to become more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
long-term effect because they are so complex, a manager's information so incomplete, the competitive environment so complicated, analytic techniques so inadequate, and the number of things over which a manager has View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
the Iran Center for Management (Tehran). He was part of a team of HBS professors whose advice to the top executives of Nestlé S.A. led to the creation of IMEDE, the European management school in Switzerland.... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
An Invitation to Market Design
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
the lives of other women like her, providing advice and concrete examples of how to succeed without feeling overwhelmed or compromised. How to Lose Friends and Irritate People: The First Satirical Self-Help Book to Lead You to Failure by Daniel Barach (MBA ’88B)... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- September 2009
- Article
Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
By: Jordan I. Siegel and Barbara Zepp Larson
Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Labor Market; Complementarity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor Unions; Laws and Statutes; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Manufacturing Industry
Siegel, Jordan I., and Barbara Zepp Larson. "Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric." Management Science 55, no. 9 (September 2009): 1527–1546. (Although one of the central questions in the global strategy field is how multinational firms successfully navigate multiple and often conflicting institutional environments, we know relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in nearly every one of the world's largest welding
markets, Lincoln Electric offers us a quasi-experiment. We leverage a unique data set covering 1996–2006 that combines data on each host country's labor market institutions with data on each subsidiary's strategic choices and historical operating performance. We find that Lincoln Electric performed significantly better in countries with labor laws and regulations supporting manufacturers' interests and in countries that allowed the free
use of both piecework and a discretionary bonus. Furthermore, we find that in countries with labor market institutions unfriendly to manufacturers, Lincoln Electric was still able to overcome most (although not all) of the institutional distance by what we term flexible intermediate adaptation.)
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
during the MBA program. Giovanni Estrella (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? Jacksonville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? I was a Senior Quality Engineer for the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in the United States. Primarily, my role... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
announcement-leading to even greater use of the same production tool. Two controlled lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases, not rational expectations, drive the effect. Our research contributes not only... View Details
- Web
Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
to source for and screen investments Managing growth Evaluating a portfolio Pro-rata investing’s pros and cons Creating a new firm and fundraising for a first-time fund Compensation and control within a firm... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
refugee resettlement, I knew that there was no more valuable way for me to spend my time than supporting those who are most vulnerable, which is why I immediately started searching for roles at the IRC. Luckily my search didn’t take long, as a former View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
of a sudden I became the credit manager in the worst economic times we'd had since the Depression. I'M THE ONLY PERSON in my family who didn't grow up in Seattle. I've always felt I can walk away anytime, even today. IT'S A MISCONCEPTION... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
was carrying them came crashing back to Earth. “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up,” Minnick says. But because the company controls the satellite manufacturing portion of its own supply chain, it... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
7, I argued that sponsors of large technical systems (including platform systems) must manage the modular structure of the system and property rights in a way that solves four inter-related problems: provide all essential functional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2009
- Article
Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies
By: Erin Marie Reid and Michael W. Toffel
The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Shareholder Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Social Issues; Corporate Disclosure; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics
Reid, Erin Marie, and Michael W. Toffel. "Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies." Strategic Management Journal 30, no. 11 (November 2009): 1157–1178. (Featured by the Network for Business Sustainability.)