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- 21 Dec 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Target's Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital—public capital, private capital—in service of society. The tool that we are most proud of is the social impact bond, which is essentially a public-private partnership that brings... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- July 1999
- Case
Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (E)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Katharina Pick. "Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (E)." Harvard Business School Case 400-006, July 1999.
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
business of "daily deals"- in which retailers offer a heavily discounted product or service available for purchase for brief (often 24-hour) windows. The case explores the complicated sharing of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411048. View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
its own inventory. Today, Amazon is a classic example of “platformization”: The company grew from an online bookstore into a vast technological hub that provides logistics and advertising to third-party retailers and public cloud View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
stocking distributor to a retail company, which then serves end users. (In the service analogy, the distributor becomes a consolidator.) 2. It can go through an agent, such as a jobber or a broker (instead... View Details
Anthony Soohoo
a Fortune 100 company. He led one of the largest digital transformations in history, delivering multi-billion dollars of incremental revenue and record profits, catalyzing Walmart Home to become the nation’s largest retailer for home... View Details
- November 2009
- Article
Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
Many companies operate units that are dispersed across different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarter's ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy... View Details
Keywords: Market Dispersion; Decentralization; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Retail Industry
Campbell, Dennis, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino. "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry." Accounting Review 84, no. 6 (November 2009): 1749–1779.
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
would help. “There are elements of credit outside those in regulatory focus, and that data is not easily available,” she says, pointing to lenders in the shadow bank system. These entities provide services similar to traditional... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- August 2012
- Case
William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
mission.” Nitin Nohria, University Distinguished Service Professor who served as Dean following Light, notes, “Jay gave me the best gift a new Dean could ask for: a School well-positioned for the future. Moreover, he was a trusted advisor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
success, ten faculty members from the School’s Entrepreneurial Management Unit traveled there last summer for a six-day, three-city series of meetings with dozens of business leaders, educators, and government officials. “The goals of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
farm in Dorset, England. As he worked the property, Heeks realized that principles of sustainable development and sound organic farming could be applied to the successful management of an organization, according to an article in The Grocer (January 6, 2001), Britain’s... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
extension, mine,” he says. After earning a psychology degree from Boston College in 1998, Kennealey spent two years of community service in nearby Roxbury as a teacher at Nativity Prep, a tuition-free Jesuit middle school that serves boys... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinventing Savings Bonds
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
(and when proper oversight makes sure the "rules" are followed), cities can gain a competitive edge since businesses and citizens can benefit from services without their city having to put up the investment capital. The Carlsbad... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings.... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
areas of concern: pressure on government spending, the need to attract domestic and foreign investment, and oil prices. “I think oil prices are outrageous,” said Chidambaram, whose country imports 70 percent of its petroleum.... View Details