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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
Serkes Valora Technologies Inc. "We find the needle in the haystack," said CEO and President Sandra Serkes. Her company has a patent-pending computer server, the Linkify Information Connectivity Server, that works to ease the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
circumstances," said Howson. "In China, regulators and shareholders are one and the same, but they're slowly separating. There's still some confusion of roles as to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
jobs and work-life balance, and perceptions of team collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness. What, if anything, is wrong with this picture? (In spite of differences in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
workout. Would Euro zone agencies and lawmakers, acting on behalf of lending banks, have to take drastic action to force Greece's government to impose new laws and collect the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 28, 2023
- Article
Will We Blame Self-Driving Cars? A New Study Finds That People Are Likely to Hold Autonomous Vehicles Liable for Accidents Even When They’re Not at Fault
De Freitas, Julian. "Will We Blame Self-Driving Cars? A New Study Finds That People Are Likely to Hold Autonomous Vehicles Liable for Accidents Even When They’re Not at Fault." Wall Street Journal (January 28, 2023), C5.
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a... View Details
- June 2013
- Supplement
Multiasistencia: Redefining the Relationship with its Service Professionals. Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Multiasistencia, a major Spanish BPO of insurance repairs, is changing the relational contract with its service profesionals from a referral model to a guaranteed workload one. View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not be as necessary as it is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
opportunity to differentiate the company and its products. It can also elicit positive reactions from government officials and regulators on important business issues. Q: It's... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Whether you’re in retailing or... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
percent of the time isn’t good enough.” By some calculations, human drivers are 99.999819 percent crash-free. “Before there are going to be genuinely autonomous systems that the public accepts and that View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
follow from that." The Root Of All Scandals In 2008, greedy bankers became high-profile value claimers and nearly took the entire world into a depression, Hall says. They were slapped with tighter financial View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear? (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 808118. View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
contributions knowing they are likely to get bailed out. For regulators and politicians, the challenge is to structure contracts that deter reckless behavior prior to default View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
for the longer term. Are they going to foster the rule of law and give domestic and foreign entrepreneurs more confidence to invest? Are they going to allow private companies... View Details
- March 1999 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Honda-Rover (D): The Changing Tide of the BMW-Rover Alliance
By: Ashish Nanda, James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; United Kingdom
Nanda, Ashish, James K. Sebenius, and Ron Fortgang. "Honda-Rover (D): The Changing Tide of the BMW-Rover Alliance." Harvard Business School Case 899-226, March 1999. (Revised November 2001.)
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
what extent does platform leadership help or hinder the development of such ideas? Do our anti-trust laws adequately address the issue of platform leaders and their behaviors? Platform leadership requires... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
standards of the Internet and willing to transfer databases to a "rival supplier" in the event of an unsatisfactory relationship (Joshua Doherty), and those maintaining a highly focused in-house... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
value for customers, and extraordinary returns to investors. Neither had extensive schooling in business administration. John Bogle earned a liberal arts degree from Princeton. Herb Kelleher received his from Wesleyan, with majors in... View Details