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09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System "Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System" was the 2nd annual conference hosted by the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. The Club invited 22 industry experts from View Details

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees at four View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

deeper cultural tendencies as well. But my research shows that there's another, equally treacherous, aspect to cross-border negotiation that's been largely overlooked in the literature: the ways that people from different regions come to... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

mass of customers who are not "leading edge" users, and thus preempt large shares of the existing market. Further, Christensen maintains that precisely because of their size and success, organizations with "household... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

kinship, which fostered a strong professional relationship. Cera, the Kusisto’s youngest daughter, is a J.D. candidate at University of Michigan Law School. She is looking forward to a summer job at a large legal View Details

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

four leading global food safety firms gives their testing a certain level of external validity that they may not enjoy by doing their own testing, although big companies such as Nestle remain strongly committed to in-house monitoring. In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

contest. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54708 June 2018 Management Science Personal and Social Usage: The Origins of Active Customers and Ways to Keep Them Engaged By: Lee, Clarence, Elie Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract—We study... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

of the largest users of petroleum products.” Robert Tichio (MBA 2005) Principal, Riverstone/Carlyle “I’m partner and managing director at Riverstone Holdings, one of the world’s largest private equity firms focused on the energy sector.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

predictable surprises. Finally, many are more willing to run the risk of incurring a large but small-probability loss in the future rather than accepting a smaller, yet certain loss now. We don't want to invest in preventing a problem... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

infertility: eggs, sperm, and wombs. Sometimes, these components are sold along with IVF treatment—when a couple purchases eggs, for example, they are subsequently used for an IVF procedure—but they are often provided by individual brokers. Then there are the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

the costs of running the service, infrastructure, encoding, dealing with credit card companies, et cetera. Apple's profit comes from the sale of iPods and related products. It is no secret that a large percentage of music files on iPods... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, and I am dismayed to see the destructive effect these instances of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

William Wrigley, and two years later the sale of its candy business to the Swiss firm of Jacob Suchard. In 1986 the Ecko housewares line was divested to the Packaging Corporation of America for $388.2 million, View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

the wake of the scandals of the past few years is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Of the seventy-one sections of the Act, one probably has caused more expenditure of time and money on the part of leaders of publicly traded firms than all... View Details