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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
can start a multi-billion dollar industry before turning thirty. While cyberspace is new and sparkling with opportunity, it is not that new and that much sparklier than other technologies were on the eve of their creation. —Debora L. Spar... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
candidates have the same political orientation (making coordination relatively more important and desirable), but they remain strong when two candidates only qualify for the second round (and there is no need for coordination), suggesting... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and improving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Alibaba Group
By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436. View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
business model, one that positioned the company simultaneously in the PC industry and the consumer electronics industry. While Apple enjoyed a high market share in digital media players and in online music sales, it remained a niche... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
network of bilateral relations that are more or less hospitable for IGOs. Read the paper: http://www.torfason.net/site/wp-content/uploads/Ingram-and-Torfason-2010-Organizing-the-In-Between.pdf Working PapersBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit. This case presents the structure of these payment methods, focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts." Harvard Business School Case 213-046, December 2012. (Revised November 2014.)
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
modularized. Instead these areas should be located in transaction-free zones so that the costs of transacting do not overburden the system. The boundaries of transaction-free zones constitute breakpoints where firms and industries may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 1989 (Revised February 1993)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C)
In 1989, Frito-Lay designed an information technology infrastructure to support time-based competition and organizational restructuring. The company planned to provide timely flexible information to all major decision makers at all levels. This case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Time Management; Organizational Structure; Information Management; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C)." Harvard Business School Case 190-071, December 1989. (Revised February 1993.)
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Loewen Group Inc., The
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jose Camacho
A publiclytraded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring the debt is potentially very costly to creditors, shareholders, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders.... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Debt Securities; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Crisis Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Service Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jose Camacho. "Loewen Group Inc., The." Harvard Business School Case 201-062, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
in state industries—became a closed caste, an industrial elite with hereditary jobs, and with privileges and security far above that of their rural cousins. If anything, the gap between urban and rural identities became greater. And the... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
facilitating face-to-face interactions can provide information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-023.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Shannon O'Donnell, a research associate at Harvard Business School. "At the workshop, Paul asked each member of the group to talk about a part of the music that was particularly meaningful and the challenges involved in coordinating... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John Wiley & Sons, forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2023
- Teaching Note
Buurtzorg
By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs and benefits of those... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
flash sales industry was created using this idea as a cornerstone of its business strategy. In this paper, we identify and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer, particularly for products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne