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Entrepreneurial Marketing
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/buscomplete.html" target="_blank">Business Source Complete: includes scholarly and trade journals relating to sales and marketing strategies. Business Source Complete contains full text of Harvard... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
at the company’s core. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers. The publicly traded company has won numerous honors, including Fast Company’s World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care; MIT... View Details
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Lamoiyan Corporation of the Philippines: Challenging Multinational Giants (TN)
By: Peter J. Coughlan, Jordan I. Siegel and John R. Wells
Teaching note to 704405. View Details
- February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
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E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin
Describes Williams-Sonoma's development of a third channel of business on the Internet. Describes the strategies for managing changes in the organizational, operational, and technological structure of the company. The new e-commerce division confronts challenges posed... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Internet and the Web; Trade; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; California
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Galvin. "E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma." Harvard Business School Case 300-086, February 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
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Resources for Harvard Economics Students
other criteria. Compare a company to its competitors along multiple dimensions. WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service) Provides access to financial databases through a uniform, web-based interface. Databases include Compustat, CRSP, OptionMetrics, View Details
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Foreign direct investment: statistics
available online in World Bank DataBank. World Investment Report From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. For FDI in OECD countries broken down by industry, you can use the OECD's... View Details
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Negotiation and Diplomacy - Course Catalog
challenging problems? This course explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can effectively address seemingly “intractable” international conflicts and overcome barriers to agreement in civil wars, interstate conflicts, environmental challenges, as well as in View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
economic growth and competitiveness—including reforming the corporate tax code, easing immigration for high-skilled immigrants, investing in infrastructure, and aggressively addressing abuses in the international trading system—divisive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Stephanie Tilenius
and Master’s, she received a prestigious Presidential Management Intern Program position that put her to work on trade relations with Japan. “I quickly realized,” says Stephanie, “that there was no way we were going to drive real reform... View Details
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Sekou Calliste
In preparation for his return to the Caribbean, Sekou is taking his summer internship at Deutsche Bank's sales and trading group in London. "I've done investment banking and research," he says. "I'm rounding out my... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
co-directors, the course intentionally enrolls equal numbers of HBS, HKS, and HLS students, and explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can effectively overcome barriers to agreement in civil and interstate conflicts, as well as in View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
the trades of funds, rather than the holdings. Using this method, a fund that holds similar stocks to a successful fund, but buys them one quarter later, would not get credit for being similar to the successful fund. Q: What was the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
ownership to the private sector and become regulators—a position that will, in fact, give them more power to shape the competitive environment of industries not only in their own country but throughout the continent, as the European Union develops." Growth Of... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- December 1999 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Avon Products China (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jennifer Gui
In April 1998, when the Chinese central government bans all forms of direct selling in China in April 1998, executives at Avon China must decide how to respond. The first direct sales company to enter China after its opening to outsiders, Avon sparked widespread... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Sales; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Market Participation; China
Paine, Lynn S., and Jennifer Gui. "Avon Products China (A)." Harvard Business School Case 300-053, December 1999. (Revised April 2001.)
- June 1993 (Revised September 1993)
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Retail in Mexico 1993
By: David B. Yoffie and Charles McHugh LaFollette
In the wake of NAFTA, U.S. retail firms begin to see Mexico as an attractive market for international expansion. This case examines the structure of Mexico's volume retail (grocery, discount, warehouse club, hypermarket) industry, the joint ventures between U.S. and... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Joint Ventures; Industry Structures; Trade; Retail Industry; United States; Mexico
Yoffie, David B., and Charles McHugh LaFollette. "Retail in Mexico 1993." Harvard Business School Case 793-144, June 1993. (Revised September 1993.)
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Paul Scharfman
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of ethnic consumers in the United... View Details
Fair Competition
I began researching the topic of fair competition in graduate school, where I became fascinated with Louis Brandeis’s advocacy for so-called fair trade laws. These laws looked a lot like price-fixing to me, but Brandeis and others... View Details
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Stephen Johnston
me to do something similar. Meanwhile, time is ticking. I'd love to speak ten languages by the time I'm 35, and learn the national dance of each country on my way. The next task will be to find a place where trade offs between time,... View Details