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    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Deglobalization and Entrepreneurial Investment: The Natural Experiment of Brexit

    By: Elisa Alvarez-Garrido and Juan Alcácer
    We seek to gain insight into the consequences of deglobalization on entrepreneurial investment by analyzing an instance of economic disintegration: the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. Brexit is not only a unique empirical opportunity, a natural... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; International Relations; Trade; Disruption; Globalized Economies and Regions; United Kingdom
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    • June 2003
    • Case

    IBM and Linux (A)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Siobhan O'Mahony and James Quinn
    In the fall of 1998, Dan Frye, member of IBM's emerging technologies and business team, is trying to decide whether to forge a strategic alliance with the Linux Development Community (LDC). Just two years earlier, IBM had its first exposure to an "open source" software... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Open Source Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Cooperation; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
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    • 1997
    • Book

    The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value

    By: J. Heskett, W. E. Sasser Jr. and L. Schlesinger
    Keywords: Profit; Service Industry
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    • 01 Jan 2020
    • News

    Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

    • June 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Komatsu and Smart Construction

    By: David J. Collis
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-042. The case describes the introduction by Komatsu, the Japanese earth moving equipment manufacturer, of a new business model—Smart Construction. This replaces the one-time sale of a capital good with a software platform that... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption; Construction Industry
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    • November 2013
    • Case

    Coca-Cola: Liquid and Linked

    By: John Gourville and Noah Fisher
    Coca-Cola is considering which of several global marketing/promotional efforts to bring to the United States. Each has proven successful in other parts of the world, but for varying reasons. All represent efforts outside of the industry's normal advertising-based... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Promotions; Advertising; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Campaigns; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • February 2020
    • Case

    Highfields Capital and McDonald's

    By: Mark Egan and Robin Greenwood
    McDonald’s reported its fifth consecutive quarter of declining same-store sales growth in early 2015. Despite McDonald’s recent poor performance, Jonathon S. Jacobson, the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Boston-based Highfields Capital Management, had initiated... View Details
    Keywords: McDonald's; Stocks; Performance Improvement; Operations; Finance; Restructuring; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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    • 04 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

    In order to get its financial and management woes under control, the health care industry might want to peek at the playbooks of retail giants like Walmart, Google, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • September 2013 (Revised December 2015)
    • Case

    PepsiCo, Profits, and Food: The Belt Tightens

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
    The case describes the issues facing Indra Nooyi after five years of PepsiCo's new and controversial nutrition strategy. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Ethics; Leadership; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • October 1995 (Revised April 1997)
    • Case

    Apparel Exports and the Indian Economy

    By: Ananth Raman
    Indian apparel exports are enjoying considerable success in the international markets. However, the future is uncertain owing to impending technological, regulatory, and market changes. This case explores the long lead times for sourcing apparel from India and provides... View Details
    Keywords: Working Capital; Supply Chain Management; Supply and Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; India
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    • 2012
    • Book

    Restoring Trust in Organizations and Leaders: Enduring Challenges and Emerging Answers

    By: Roderick Kramer and Todd Lowell Pittinsky
    Recent events around the world, especially in the financial sector and with respect to government performance, have severely undermined people’s trust in both private organizations and public institutions. In no small measure, these substantial and enduring declines in... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Leadership; Public Opinion; Social Psychology; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • May 1975 (Revised October 1985)
    • Case

    Marks and Spencer Ltd.

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    This business policy and retailing strategy case focuses on the unique corporate strategy and philosophy of a leading English retailer. Emphasizes expansion plans. View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Policy; Management; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Retail Industry
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    • March 2006
    • Module Note

    Exchange Rates and Global Markets

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
    Describes the first module of the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. This introductory module focuses on the concepts and skills that students need throughout a course on international finance: a familiarity with exchange rates and associated... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Pricing; Currency Exchange Rate; Globalized Markets and Industries; International Finance; Teaching; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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    • 29 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

    Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
    • October 2000 (Revised January 2002)
    • Case

    Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (B)

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Harmeling
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Values and Beliefs; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Diversity; Financial Services Industry
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    • 29 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    Industry By: Park, K. Francis, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We examine how heterogeneity in customers’ multi-homing tendencies affects a platform’s response to new entrants in its market. We... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    organized, and managed, as well as the nature of domestic rivalry. The presence or absence of supplier industries and other related industries... View Details
    • 22 Apr 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    • 29 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

    An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services