Global Business Cycle - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford used influencers to launch the Fiesta car. What struck us right... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

05 Jun 2015
News

Soccer-FIFA crisis worse than anything in Olympics scandal

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful... View Details

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

leaders took global elections by storm. Populist movements raised the fundamental question of the role of business in the development of the conditions for the genesis of these movements, especially in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Chip Bergh

Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

most attractive terms? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809031 Note on the Global Wind Industry Harvard Business School Note 709-005 This note provides... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 1981
Supplement

Corning Glass Works International, Part I, Interviews with Division Managers, Video

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Michael Y. Yoshino

Presents tapes of interviews with Forrest Behm (previously president of Corning International), Bill Hudson (ex-country manager, international business manager, world board chairman, and current product division manager), and Van Campbell (corporate treasurer).... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

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21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

future, 50 percent of all tasks currently done by humans could be done by machine learning and artificial intelligence,” says Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Overall, that could translate into a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of "competitiveness."... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

24 Nov 2014
News

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

07 Nov 2014
News

From divestment to engagement

June 2011
Case

Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market

By: Luis Viceira, Elena Corsi and Ruth Dittrich

An advisory company has to decide how to sell their client's hedge fund holdings in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with... View Details

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Funds; Marketing Strategy; Financial Crisis; Sales; Leadership Development; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Globalized Economies and Regions; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; Europe

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21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

the General Management Program at HBS. In advising global firms, Thomke has seen that in many cases, a company’s biggest obstacle to success doesn’t necessarily come from competitors, the economy, or other outside forces, but can actually... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jun 2014
News

Q. and A.: William C. Kirby on ‘Can China Lead?’

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

market and gain acceptance that might otherwise prove elusive. Although stealth positioning doesn't typically disrupt categories, it can give products a fresh run at the life cycle and keep them from languishing—or dying outright—in the... View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

11 May 2015
News

How Emerging Markets Can Finally Arrive

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019, according to MarketWatch, from $4.77 billion in 2014. “When it comes... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

in the globalization of the Harvard Business School, and Christensen was a member of IMEDE's board of advisors for three decades. He was also a visiting professor there during the 1963-64 academic year. The... View Details

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

Flows in the Global Economy Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—We review the rapid development of digital labor markets that... View Details