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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
fall of the canal's importance to the United States, the handover of the canal to Panama in 1999, and the way the canal has thrived under Panamanian control. In this e-mail interview, Maurer discusses the factors that make the canal such... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407057 Factors That Influence Cross-Border Equity Investment Harvard Business School Note 107-020 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
practice. Chi square tests were used to assess the correlations in the data. Among the careers that were tracked (n = 195), there was significant heterogeneity in current primary employment. The most common sectors were clinical (27.7%), View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
comes to bear only when there is a mutual need to focus on joint objectives" This process of open communication encourages a great degree of buyer/seller cooperation and coordination, and literally a much broader agreement. More issues are raised and View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
inequities over time. Awareness of the factors that create gender-related advantages and disadvantages can help you mitigate their consequences—and promote a more egalitarian workplace. How Ambiguity Affects Negotiation At Park's firm, a... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are initially inferior in terms of costs, user-friendliness, or... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Barring artificial constraints by government or unusual dislo-cations - such as the first oil embargo that came when we were students at HBS - I'd say existing factors point to a pretty good investment... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"Rather than discussing topics in the rarified air of investment banking, an industry foreign to many of our students, we wanted to be as universal as possible." Not that it is a simple situation emotionally. Stressed out over... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
wondered if there were biological or physiological factors that could help to explain the misconduct that we see so frequently in the real world” A new study reveals two key discoveries about the link between the endocrine system and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The School has been a significant... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
the customer would do in the future. As with other artificial intelligence tools, the drawback to this technology is that the model acts as a sort of black box, so researchers can’t determine the exact factors that trigger predictions.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
balance between the efficiency of a global entity and the speed of local businesses. What would be the best strategy for Bunge to respond to the external changes imposed by high energy prices and increasing demand from emerging economies? How aggressively should Bunge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Backing Harvard’s Work for Children
facing adversity. A partner at Riverstone, an energy industry-focused private investment firm, Tichio is a longtime HBS supporter—most recently serving on the Major Gifts Committee for his 10th Reunion. Besides HBS, he and his wife, Maya,... View Details
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By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration. “No wonder these businesses end up receiving rave reviews and loyal customers.” "If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
book, which grew out of background notes Moss wrote for his MBA students, is a nontechnical, accessible explanation of broad concepts such as "output," "money," and "expectations"—as well as more specific ones ranging from real exchange... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
responsiveness seems to have an even bigger impact on profitability,” Gupta says. Don’t change customers, change algorithms Applying both factors to data from a European television service company, for example, the researchers were able... View Details