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01 Aug 2023
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As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

jump ship for better offers.” Who’s responsible? Fonzie Gonz said, “Why focus on middle management when top leadership is leagues away from any meaningful adoption of DEI? These changes need to come from the top down.” View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. Amazon's entry reduces the shipping... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2009
Working Paper

Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai

Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States

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25 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

2021. SHEIN uses data and software to match consumer demand for designs to the capabilities of particular members of its manufacturing network, and it also keeps close tabs on customer outreach, order receipt, payment guarantees, and direct View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Cessna Aircraft Company, 1936–1975 James C. Wallace American Ship Building Company, 1904–1913 Henry G. Walter, Jr. International Flavors & Fragrances, 1962–1985 Samuel M. Walton Wal-Mart Corporation, 1962–1988 John Wanamaker John... View Details

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By: Antonio Moreno

One major theme of Professor Moreno’s research has been retail channel integration and so-called “omnichannel retail.” In omnichannel retail, retailers provide their customers with a shopping experience that may involve different channels in a way that aims to be... View Details

Malcolm P. Baker

Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

His research is in the... View Details

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26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

sellers' product spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that Amazon's entry reduces the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Podcast - Business & Environment

to create a “low-carbon rose” by shipping them to their clients around the world by sea instead of by air without eroding their quality, and the effects this has on its production process. For transcripts and other resources, visit... View Details

2008
Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States

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02 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Daniel Spulber

MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Photo Galleries - Alumni

of purchase for photos is based on processing and shipping costs. Harvard Business School does not benefit from the sale of any photographs. Login is required to access the photo galleries. FALL REUNIONS 2024 Fall 2024 Reunion (Login... View Details

Benjamin C. Esty

Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

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07 Jul 2022
HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

pay enough attention to financial discipline and keeping track of cash in and cash out, [which] can get an entrepreneur into trouble.” Even with an average store profitability of 15 percent, and the fact that it was shipping its product... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

the wheel of a Rolls-Royce he’d shipped across the Atlantic for the occasion. Wallner was stunned. “I thought, ‘Why on earth would you bring a bloody motor car here?’ ” In the friendship that followed, Wallner learned that Gaines-Cooper... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

On February 1, 2020, a passenger who had been on Carnival’s Diamond Princess ship docked in Japan tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Soon afterward, 700 people on the ship contracted the virus—the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Sea Zero By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be fully electric. But such a vessel's battery, the size of electric cars, needed to... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Corporate Finance 91 (April 2025). Hurtigruten: Sea Zero By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be fully electric. But such a vessel's... View Details

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