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The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

    We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details
    • 2013
    • Case

    Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd.

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang and Hong Zhang
    Since 2008, FOTILE has actively introduced philosophies of the traditional Chinese culture—such as benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith—into its management, which it believes to compensate for deficiencies in Western management concepts and creates a new... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Strategy; China
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    • 22 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information

    Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Technology
    • February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
    • Case

    Open Market, Inc.: The E-Commerce Wars

    By: James I. Cash Jr., Janis Lee Gogan, Michael Haselkorn and Mani Subramani
    Continues the story of Open Market, Inc., a company founded in 1994 to support electronic commerce on the Internet. Despite a very successful initial public offering, the firm had reached a growth plateau, and the management team was considering several strategic... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • 13 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

    very broadest terms, everyone expected biotech to "work" just like all other high-technology industries, and thus we deployed a lot of the same thinking, models, financial arrangements, and strategies that worked elsewhere, but... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
    • 24 Apr 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

    transforming both enterprises and creating a formidable competitor for Medtronic. I didn’t have the courage to accept short-term risk to create long-term gain. It took Medtronic two decades of expensive research and development programs... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
    • 11 Jan 2021
    • News

    Is A/B Testing Effective?

    • May 2002 (Revised October 2002)
    • Case

    Telewest Communications plc

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Laure Mougeot Stroock
    Created in 1992, Telewest has become the second largest broadband communication provider in the United Kingdom, offering telephone, cable television, and cable Internet services, as well as television and online content to the U.K. entertainment market. The first to... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    and be a model for future businesses. Raya Partners: Profitability and Purpose TXU (A): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History Key concepts: Corporate strategy This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the... View Details
    • 23 Feb 2017
    • News

    Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, 'Black List' Mastermind

    • 07 Jul 2019
    • HBS Case

    Walmart's Workforce of the Future

    detailing the scope of Walmart’s operations and current strategies in the case “Walmart’s Workforce of the Future.” Published in April, it offers an overview of the considerable investments the retail giant is making in its e-commerce... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • 06 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

    ventures being started in every corner of the globe. These ventures can raise money locally or globally. They can disperse talent in many countries. Take a company like Skype. When I visited Skype several years ago, it had 125 employees from 23 countries. The View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Nov 2023
    • Book

    Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

    and others do not, or for why some crony relationships facilitate growth and others create crisis or stagnation. What strategies do authoritarian political elites adopt to manage the business class? What kinds of View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2009 (Revised October 2012)
    • Case

    Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT'

    By: Willy Shih
    Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that leverages the desires of municipalities in China to build clusters of high technology companies. By partnering with those cities to build new semiconductor fabs that SMIC would... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Semiconductor Industry; China
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    • October 2005
    • Case

    Tad Piper and Piper Jaffray

    By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
    In 2005, Tad Piper reflects on the successful spin-off from US Bancorp of Piper Jaffray, the investment bank founded by his grandfather. Profiles the development of Piper Jaffray from a Midwestern brokerage house to a national, diversified financial services firm. In... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis Management; Leadership Style; Management Style; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    Tech in the Job Search: ChatGPT for Job-Seekers

    Join CPD and a former LinkedIn insider for an enlightening webinar and learn to harness the potential of AI tools like ChatGPT to revolutionize your job search experience. View Details
    • 04 Jan 2018
    • News

    How to Monetize Happiness

    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

    else will have to catch up. Investing in privacy early on is key, not just for protecting your company, but also as a strategy to gain a competitive advantage. Layne: One thing you do suggest companies do is get a chief privacy officer or... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

    benefiting patients and communities. She said, “My future professional aim is to develop experience and expertise at the intersection of medicine, policy, and management.” Mimi Sax. Mimi comes to HBS from the Bill & Melinda Gates... View Details