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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Costa Rican whose recent research has focused on Brazil and the possible side effects of competition for foreign direct investment. She notes that "people tend to think of Latin America as a single bloc, but each country is quite... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
indistinguishable from one another. Fabs 4 and 5 both came online in 1979, each more efficient and more expensive than their predecessors. From humble beginnings, manufacturing was well on its way to becoming one of Intel’s competitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a professional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
The risk would be giving up their competitive advantage, but Goedertier said, if BlackRock doesn’t do it, a software company would come up with a similar product, so they should capitalize on it now. On the issue of the 64 million share... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a global business environment." Where the Heart Is Along with food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human need. In modern society, stable,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
the Russian economy, Mlotok entered an annual case competition sponsored by McKinsey; of the thousands of applications received, she was one of twenty finalists, and one of two offered a full-time position. Hoping to build on her work... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
students to continue those discussions. Now, when the Aldrich doors open, students make a beeline to Spangler. It’s a place to see and be seen.” Renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, whose New York–based firm won the competition to design... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business by Fortune magazine, discussed the media’s effect on business and the monumental changes in communications technology. “Business now moves at lightning speed as a result of Internet news sites, investor chat rooms, and nonstop... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the end, it's the boards that must resist the pressure to overpay executives. Healy: To put it in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
very substantial product differentiation from their competition or, in the case of the “Truth” anti-tobacco campaign, no competition — just a villain that was an easy target. I don’t know if the agency... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Europe passed laws resembling America's Sherman Act. The European Community in particular instituted stringent regulations designed to break down trade barriers and maximize interfirm competition within and across national boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
you do can be put in three boxes: one, manage the present; two, selectively forget the past; and three, create the future. Box 1 is competition for the present, and Box 2 and Box 3 are competition for the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
discussions will include a number of HBS professors. The Hong Kong conference will also consider China in the larger context of the Asian business environment. HBS professor Michael E. Porter will offer his perspective on the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
the less government involvement there is, the better,” says Oberholzer-Gee. “In fact, a number of the competitive advantages enjoyed by companies have come from the regulations that governments impose on markets.” In the course’s last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
traditional landline side, preaching process innovations to technicians. Define jobs around innovation. Make it a job prerequisite. Consider 3M’s move to become one of the first companies to tell professionals that they could spend 15... View Details