Small States In World Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

After spending three years working in consulting before coming to HBS, I knew I wanted to use my summer to expand beyond the world of Board of Directors advisory and multi-national company strategic planning... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

Web

HBS - The year in Review

teaching methodology, but also for the creation of Harvard Business Publishing’s flagship publication, Harvard Business Review (HBR). For the past century, HBR has been required reading in executive suites around the View Details

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

energy markets, but it is otherwise not an important market for most firms in the world, and certainly not for many American firms. It’s just because Russia is such a geopolitical player that it seems like... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

01 Mar 2004
News

Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers

job-hunting targets. If you are searching only in Los Angeles, for example, think of other geographic areas. If you are looking only in large public corporations, consider View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
Case

Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Susan Seligson

After hitting an all-time low in 2008, Domino’s Pizza underwent a vigorous rebranding, product development, and embraced innovative technologies to become the world’s leading international fast-food retailer. Domino’s considered itself as much a tech company as it was... View Details

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02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

founder and former CEO of Software Publishing, suggested that the ActivePhoto team members violate the rule when they needed to explore more than one market — but he cautioned them to experiment in no more... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

that they allow and support free information flow over the Internet with some restrictions. They contend that the United States doesn't feel any discomfort hacking into the Internet traffic of U.S. citizens who are suspected terrorists... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

23 Feb 2011
News

A Capitalist in China

MarketWatch commentary (February 1, 2011). “So by looking back at what worked for investors in the United States between the world wars, I believe I can peer into a time... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

summit of every challenge they took on, a small market share was not in their plans, and they continued to push hard. In 2006, outdoor giant... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Midwesterner raised on a dairy farm, and Roy Whitcomb Riley, a Black Southerner, settled in Los Angeles shortly before their son’s birth, in 1981, after traveling the world for... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2022
News

Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

their must-read recommendations for your consideration. That’s easy: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain. Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) told me about this book while... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

climate change, with its attendant rise in extreme (and extremely disruptive) weather—has whetted the commercial sector’s appetite for worldwide data and analytics. “That combination of things means that the View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

December 2013 (Revised January 2015)
Case

Barbara Krakow Gallery

By: Jose Alvarez and Nyssa Liebermann

The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope... View Details