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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

(ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the decisions... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Location Choices Under Strategic Interactions

Keywords: by Juan Alcacer
  • 08 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran
  • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North America
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  • 2010
  • Book

A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

By: Amar Bhide
Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in... View Details
Keywords: Recession; Banking; Banks; Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Controlling Versus Enabling

    Many firms can choose between an employment mode, in which the firm controls service provision by employing professionals, sales representatives or other types of agents, and an agency (or platform) mode, in which these agents take control... View Details

    • Program

    Value Creation Through Effective Boards

    accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who... View Details
    • February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
    • Case

    E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

    By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick
    Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry
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    • 13 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 13

    executives who were at Olympus while the scandal occurred. Purchase this supplement:http://hbr.org/search/413075-PDF-ENG Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off Suraj Srinivasan, Aldo Sesia, and Amy KaserHarvard Business School Case 112-055 The case studies the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Mark L. Egan
    When considering how households make investment decisions, Professor Egan became intrigued by the question, “What makes a bank ‘special’ when compared to other lending institutions?” Focusing on empirical industrial organization with applications to finance and... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes

    By: Jeremy Yang, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon and Sinan Aral
    Decision makers often want to target interventions so as to maximize an outcome that is observed only in the long term. This typically requires delaying decisions until the outcome is observed or relying on simple short-term proxies for the long-term outcome. Here we... View Details
    Keywords: Targeted Marketing; Optimization; Churn Management; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Policy; Learning; Outcome or Result
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    • 19 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

    making decisions often decide to trust their anecdotal experience rather than AI’s interpretation of the data. The trouble is, sometimes decision makers think they understand the inner workings of an AI... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 05 May 2022
    • News

    Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

    • 12 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

    operations, constant communication is important. And with e-mail and the like, such communication is instantaneous. "IT pushes those guys to the top," Wulf says. Firm Diversification Meanwhile, an increase in the number of C-level functional product managers... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    One December evening in 2011, while preparing a lesson plan, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes picked up the phone for his weekly conversation with Bernie Madoff. Soltes, who was doing an in-depth investigation on white-collar crime, had been interviewing... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 14 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

    other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • August 2007
    • Column

    Pitch Your Offer—and Close the Deal

    By: Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman
    The article offers several strategies on how to be a good negotiator and decision maker for business developments. The strategies that are presented were an extract from the book Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Negotiation; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy
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    • 23 Nov 2021
    • Book

    What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

    produce desired behaviors. That slows down decision making and execution. Employees (and, as we will see) customers are loyal only to a point. This is a culture designed to support one strategy. It may be a strategy built around a highly... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 03 Nov 2008
    • HBS Case

    Economics of the Ethanol Business

    Reinhardt, with Senior Researcher James Weber and Agribusiness Program Director Mary Shelman (HBS MBA '87), examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy
    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A) Courseware

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
    In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North America
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