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- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Badaracco, Jr., the School's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, sums it up this way: "I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
an organization with few tangible assets under ownership and very few employees could have a higher market value than the large tech hardware and software company that employs him. Putting the question of... View Details
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707451 CircleLending, Inc. 2006 Harvard Business School Case 206-137 CircleLending, an innovative start-up, offered individuals the ability to set up and manage informal loans made between relatives and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
puzzling. We conducted an ethnographic investigation to examine the nature of events that compelled managers to engage in redundant communication. Our study of the communication patterns of project managers in six companies across three... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of marketing and sales activities in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
on the circumstances and prospects of a company. In fact, companies often turn to outsiders because they have failed to recruit, train, and develop the sort of talent that might take over leadership of the organization. To avoid this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of Individual Performance and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
company to serve an affinity constituency was often the only choice for success in business. Q: How has that situation changed today? Do paths to power mirror trends and values in society at large? A: There... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
It's sad to say, but many companies developing the next generation of customer interface technologies spend more time interacting with computers than with customers. As a result, the systems are often incompatible with consumers' shopping... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
in 1990, describes the history of Walmart and asks what competitive strategies Kmart might adopt in response to Walmart's success. It discusses the strategy and organization of both companies in terms of HR practices, store location,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
managers a way to illustrate the cause-effect relationship between company goals and the overall business strategy. Using an internal value chain model, we discuss how the balanced scorecard can support and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
"rationality" of the decision, when rationality is defined as maximizing the consumer's expected utility. The consumer's decision of whether or not to buy a product is a highly appropriate dependent variable for consumer research targeted toward View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
willingness to pay. Lal: They've created new sources of value for their customers that did not exist before. Q: And PetSmart. What's made them so successful? Lal: PetSmart saw the online threat early and built a strategy to insulate... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110030-PDF-ENG Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships Benjamin C. Esty and Albert SheenHarvard Business School Case 211-014 Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne