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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
well as tying up capital from buying and paying for materials and merchandise well in advance of when they are used. The quality of incoming items supplied by low-price suppliers may not be guaranteed to conform to buyer specifications,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help View Details
- January 1987 (Revised May 1989)
- Case
Merck-Banyu
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Merck acquired control of Banyu in 1983. This was the first acquisition by outsiders of a major publicly traded Japanese company. This case is focused on valuing strategic investments in an environment of global competition. The case is complex because of the... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Investment; Globalization; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Public Ownership; Competition; Valuation; Japan
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Merck-Banyu." Harvard Business School Case 287-061, January 1987. (Revised May 1989.)
- October 2010 (Revised August 2012)
- Supplement
Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (B)
By: Deishin Lee, Baris Ata and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production. The (A) case focuses on the operational characteristics of waste management and waste to energy, and the characteristics of the... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Wastes and Waste Processing; Management; Operations; Social Issues; Problems and Challenges; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Quality; Industry Structures; Energy Industry
Lee, Deishin, Baris Ata, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak. "Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-034, October 2010. (Revised August 2012.)
- January 2010 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
The Random House Response to the Kindle
By: Bharat N. Anand and Peter Olson
In early 2010, e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case provides an overview of the industry, describes the broader trends regarding e-readers, and asks: how should major publishers like... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Trends; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Industry Structures; Corporate Strategy; Hardware; Publishing Industry
Anand, Bharat N., and Peter Olson. "The Random House Response to the Kindle." Harvard Business School Case 710-444, January 2010. (Revised February 2011.)
- January 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Joint Juice
Focuses on Joint Juice, a start-up in the new-age beverage category. The company has a patented formula for producing a glucosamine beverage, the only one on the market. (Glucosamine is a nutritional supplement believed to help rejuvenate joints and treat arthritis.)... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry
Roberts, Michael J., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Joint Juice." Harvard Business School Case 803-146, January 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Software; Information Technology Industry; China
Khanna, Tarun. "Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993." Harvard Business School Case 795-115, February 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- Article
The Growing Strategic Importance of End-of-Life Product Management
Requiring manufacturers to manage the their products when they become waste is an innovative form of regulation, one that has been adopted by countries in Asia, Europe, and North America on a variety of products that range from vehicles to appliances to batteries.... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
Toffel, Michael W. "The Growing Strategic Importance of End-of-Life Product Management." California Management Review 45, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 102–129.
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s Global Sourcing and Manufacturing division were focusing on three key supply chain challenges: sourcing from suppliers that meet compliance standards, challenging and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under which myopic policies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise entrepreneurial returns, thereby increasing net returns and attracting entrepreneurs. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
through an auction, it does not set prices. See, e.g., Larry Page's May 2008 remarks to C|NET: "AdWords is an auction. We're not setting prices. Auctions are determined by supply and demand." 1 I disagree. Google controls a... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
during the coming year. Q: Is faculty development one of the challenges you see for the School? A: Faculty development is crucial, but the challenge includes attracting and retaining faculty as well. On the incoming side, the tightening View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
affect labor supply and welfare. Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire by Thomas J. DeLong The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society, and market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
shed doubt on future construction, while the fracking of shale deposits to extract natural gas promised a much lower-cost supply of abundant energy. Nevertheless, decommissioning nuclear power stations promised steady and growing work.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Business School Case ###-### Can an online discussion forum supply insight into the evolution of brand meaning? In 2003 Porsche launched a sport utility vehicle, dividing Porsche purists from newcomers to the brand. Vocal members of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most valuable customers, those with the longest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
where the A + B bundle is valuable only when purchased together. Good A is supplied by a monopolist (e.g., Microsoft), and there is competition in the B goods from vertically differentiated suppliers (e.g., Intel and AMD). In this simple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace