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10 Oct 2024
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details

28 May 2019
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What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)

cross-sell each other’s games. It’s something the industry accomplished by working together.” “Maybe 20 percent of my time is devoted to different aspects of Mega Millions. Just one example: We’re fighting these parasitic lotteries that basically View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

April 2010 (Revised May 2013)
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Mexico: Crisis and Competitiveness

By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H.K. Vietor and Regina Garcia-Cuellar

In 2010, the bicentennial anniversary of Mexico's revolution against Spain, President Felipe Calderon hoped he could orchestrate several crucial reforms that Mexico needed. Mexico had not grown much over the course of the last decade, losing competitiveness to China... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Mexico

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September 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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Yum! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over

By: Frances X. Frei, Amy C. Edmondson, James Weber and Eliot Sherman

Describes the successful turnaround of the restaurant company Yum! Brands after its spin off from PepsiCo and covers how the company's leadership planned and executed on virtually every dimension of the employee experience. The main dilemma centers on what the company... View Details

Keywords: Product; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Expansion; Trade; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry

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01 Mar 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)

up—it was electrifying. After that, I helped him chart stock prices on the only empty wall in our house. I’m pretty sure my parents were disappointed that I took a job in investing, because stock trading is a universal hobby in many Asian... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; stock market; investment; finance; Australia; China; Asia; strategy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)

musicianship, they learn to cooperate, negotiate, and compromise; they learn courage, confidence, intuition, and presence. What excites us is that those skills are transferable to everything—from a classroom to a boardroom, operating room, or View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
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The Power of National Identity

Soviet states and Russia is the result of each state’s unique sense of national identity and historical relationship with Russia. The countries’ distinctive approaches to monetary policy and trade relations have placed them roughly in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2013
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2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment,... View Details

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

scheme.—F. Warren McFarlan He offered the case of the Hong Kong-based global trading company Li & Fung as one example of a company that has virtually dissolved its boundaries and embraced technology as a tool for charging forth into... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2002
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Steel Tax

unlikely to go away. Over the long run, you want firms to change their cost structures and move into different parts of the market.” That, she admitted, “is easy to say and hard to do.” Asked what the likely fallout with trading partners... View Details

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

relationship. In this paper we look at this era as economic historians, trying to set events in a longer-term perspective. In some ways China's economic model in the decade 1998-2007 was similar to the one adopted by West Germany and Japan after World War II. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

total cost of care for this patient segment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-089 Maersk: Betting on Blockchain In March 2018, international shipping giant Maersk is getting ready to debut a View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

trade war continues (TonyO), leadership or lack thereof (Harry White), actions by the current US administration to encourage firms to bring jobs home and promulgate “America first” policies (Todd Z.), reduced dependency on foreign oil,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

need to know more than ever how consumers are redefining value and responding to the recession. Price elasticity curves are changing. Consumers take more time searching for durable goods and negotiate harder at the point of sale. They are more willing to postpone... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

December 2017
Supplement

Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Federica Gabrieli

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: The Rise And Fall Of Globalization; World War; The World; Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Macroeconomics; Trade; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; War

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April 1993 (Revised October 1996)
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ABB Deutschland (C)

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Addresses the results and the lessons from the German restructuring effort by focusing in detail on the relationship with the works council and the actions taken for power plants and power transformers, and the sales organization. Closes with a "second wave" of cost... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Trade; Cost Management; Leadership Style; Management Skills; Time Management; Relationships; Salesforce Management

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

and beverage, semiconductor, and high technology. Passport
Market research reports about various consumer products and industries worldwide from Euromonitor International. Includes economic indicators, demographic data, foreign View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

reports on their stock trades and forces CEOs to return pay based on financial results that were later restated. The new disclosure requirements unexpectedly lead to uncovering the widespread practice of backdating options. 2003 With SEC... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services