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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology becomes increasingly important. "The increased use of technology offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth edition of View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth edition of Corporate Information Systems Management: The Issues Facing Senior Executives. These economies have greatly encouraged the consolidations that are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Accepting this position would be a move back into mainstream media but also a career shift from line positions to a corporate staff role. The case profiles Fili-Krushel's media experiences, and her use of interpersonal influence and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
headquarters in Boston. Rather than hope that train fares and property tax payments eventually make their way into a public good, New Balance built the station themselves so they could watch the use of every penny—even as the general... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Danone. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/613003-PDF-ENG The Big 3 Roar Back William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 412-072 The "Big 3"-Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler-were all headquartered in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
had learned as a corporation how to do things that all corporations must do if they are to succeed. Two of these deserve special note. First, Intel had learned how to grow. Second, it had learned how to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
space—a loft, shared with a home-and-clothing shop—is the headquarters of Charley's Fund, a nonprofit that Tracy Seckler and her husband, Benjy, founded in 2004 after their son, then three years old, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
economy. Over the last decade, we have seen the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) involvement in corporate governance grow significantly as a shareholder and through political and legal interventions.While it is not correct at all to assume... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
in global supply chains have engaged in activism that led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether these organizational structures raise labor standards.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
lunchtime, we’re back in Boulder. Sausage, steak, and veggie burgers sizzle on a grill in the parking area behind GoLite’s corporate headquarters in a nondescript business park. Employees sip beer and chat... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference table at the car manufacturer’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
is that the best capture media, or sorbent, hasn’t been invented yet. This system should be able to handle most of the things that we throw at it in its 30-year-or-so lifetime. How far along are you in this project? We have a prototype up and running in our View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
for our ten-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) to Mexico, Santa Ana del Valle, located in one of Mexico’s poorest states, is the unassuming launchpad for a trip that will end with tours of several multibillion-dollar corporations and... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
provides details on both headquarter and country head perspective on BMW's channel strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509023 Chi Mei Optoelectronics Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
813-184 Kaiser Permanente: Innovating to Transform Healthcare This case enables discussion of organizational and industry transformation. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813184-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-001 Formlabs: Selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers or customers with atypical demographic characteristics relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne