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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
incidents of hospitalization,” says Kaplan. So why aren’t more physicians in hospitals and clinics talking with patients as part of the therapy? The incentives for doing so are missing. Kaplan sets up the following example. Say you, the doctor, charge $100 for an... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
health, morality, and fairness, it is high time, she says, to consider how to bring order to this chaotic arena. Is this really a “market,” and if so, how big is it? We don’t like to think of children as economic objects, and yet over the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the economic downturn and a collapse... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
minorities. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/apfelbaum%20norton%20sommers.pdf Leveraging Tribal Sovereignty for Economic Opportunity: A Strategic Negotiations Perspective Authors:Gavin Clarkson and James K. Sebenius... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Women's History Month | Baker Library
May/June 1984 issue unpacks how women play a vital role in economic development, but face barriers like discrimination, limited education, and restricted financial access. However, when given the proper resources—such as microloans and... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the institutional environment, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
the mouse." Book: http://www.IMovedYourCheese.com Commentary: A View from the East: Trade, Investment, and Economic Reform Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:In Cuban Economic and Social Development:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard Stadium. Rob Sundy describes himself... View Details
- August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai
In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Food; Agribusiness; Expansion; Diversification; Growth Management; Consumer Behavior; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Government and Politics; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Transformation; Volatility; Business Cycles; Goods and Commodities; Supply Chain; Product; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China; Asia
Reinhardt, Forest L., Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred, and Nancy Hua Dai. "New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business." Harvard Business School Case 720-009, August 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
generated during the boom, and since that time, they've continued to lose share. The second problem is related to the underlying economics of one of the core components in the Macintosh—the operating system. The last generation of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510032-PDF-ENG Carbon Trading Simulation: Black Cement Inc. Peter A. ColesHarvard Business School Supplement 911-053 This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
think the economy is going to get weaker, we tend to buy companies that do better than others. In a weak economy, when we see potential for a big rebound, we tend to buy cyclicals because those companies tend to do the best in the early stages of an View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
reverts faster in countries with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
company in 1992. The long-standing SABIS method, a cycle of Teach, Class Practice, Individual Practice, and Check, involves the teacher presenting one point at a time, with students mastering it via repeated examples of use, various... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
the nature of competition. Furthermore, relative to platforms that cannot charge such fees, platforms that charge positive (negative) access fees to consumers have weaker (stronger) incentives to divert search August 2013 Quarterly Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
real bicycle that would fold — something to use for serious cycling that was sturdier than available folding models. He designed and built a prototype in his spare time (while fully employed as an architect) and discovered that others... View Details