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26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

consumers' willingness to pay more. And companies including Walmart and Home Depot have said they would eventually pass higher trade costs to customers. While Trump has stood by his tariff strategy—calling the taxes a “beautiful... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't materialized. The corporate silo is alive... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

(For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a serious deterrent to attracting businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are forced to View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

17 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

on financial controls, not on risks to consumers and brand reputations. That's not good enough" Even marketers who pay special attention to safety are reluctant to tout their superiority. You never see comparison advertising from an... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

08 May 2019
Blog Post

In the Business of Flexibility

pure credibility. She has a career built on this. Authenticity is really important in the social impact world because so many companies are just now trying to capitalize on the space as it becomes ‘hot’.” As Managing Director of Social... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

last ten years as executive director of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in San Francisco. A pioneer in developing VC-like ways of measuring "social return on investment" (SROI), REDF invests substantially in a small... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

14 Jan 2021
News

Better Than Cash

financial history. Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) is on a mission to change that. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,” says Goodwin-Groen, managing... View Details

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment models, which View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

the case in the province of British Columbia in Canada." Lydia asked, "Wouldn't a more positive answer be to attract, hire, & pay equitably & fairly, the many senior qualified women available for leadership roles?"... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

academics for an exploration of new economy themes ranging from getting back to sustainable business models to the emerging wireless landscape. “Over the past year, we have seen a flight to quality in the technology market, where MBA students are View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Mar 2020
News

Signal Boost

being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

goals of profit and nonprofit mission do sometimes collide. When the goals complement each other, however, they bring real, unexpected, and refreshing advantages. For example, profits can bring in more than money. As non-profit director... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

challenges as it seeks to continue its growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-010 The Allergan Board Under Fire (A) In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

and AIDS exert such power to wreck communities and companies that they should almost be viewed as a metaphor for "disruptive technology" along the lines of the model proposed by HBS Professor Clayton Christensen in his book, The Innovator's Dilemma, said Buff... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1999
News

McArthur Hall Dedication

of the six-story, 96,000-square-foot brick building to pay tribute to McArthur, his wife, Natty, and their family, who arrived in a procession led by a bagpiper from the Boston Police Department. "This is a special day for Harvard... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives contend, consumers should pay... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

How DC is Taxing the Country

performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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