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01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

cities that are holistically improving their energy use to reduce their emissions and save money. Often these solutions involve submetering individualized utility measuring of city buildings, which allows for a closer monitoring View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

11 Jul 2017
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The Right Thing to Do

Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

March 2011
Article

Cheaper Patents

By: Tom Nicholas

The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Global Range; Distribution; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Business Processes; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Fluctuation; Motivation and Incentives; Distribution Industry; United States; Great Britain

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08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Consumers are looking for the ability to bundle the products they want in a fashion unique to each individual, and the Web will provide this capability .... We believe that vertical portals will do the best job of providing the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

19 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

in class, about the tension in marketing between how much control you want over the message and then how engaging you’re going to be. Because Mattel let others take control [in marketing partnerships and in... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services

25 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

It's no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

different ends of the career spectrum with a shared belief in their powerlessness" These companies have created new business opportunities by identifying societal problems that align with—or become part of—the firm’s operating... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

Andrea Pimienta, Class of 2021 My family’s life in the U.S. started in 1987, about four years before I was born, when my parents emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. for my father’s new job as the CEO of a... View Details

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

such as the Ritz-Carlton, employees meet at the outset of each shift on company time to discuss potential problems, how they can be addressed, and ways of working smarter. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

Publications 2014 AMACOM Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy By: Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—It used to be that if you studied and worked hard, you could be assured View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

even reduce the spread of infection. Visiting your elderly parents or holding an important meeting in-person may increase your sense of control and confidence, but are you... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. Building on Antràs and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Teaching Note

Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details

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03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

techniques—though Francesco admits in the case that this is an uphill battle. The way Francesco handles quality control inside the plant is especially unique. While most companies package and label their products separately, the bulk... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Abstract—We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

Summing Up The central debate among respondents to this month's column was joined early when the first respondent, Aaron Tice, commented, "Without the execution of business objectives in the pursuit of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

own business—even if that business may have failed." Nanda and Sørensen control for the possibility that former and aspiring entrepreneurs are more likely to cluster together at a company with an entrepreneurial culture,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

August 2018
Case

Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (A)

By: Shelle M. Santana and Esel Çekin

Işıl Akdemir Evlioğlu, executive vice president of marketing at Garanti Payment Systems (GPS), a subsidiary of Garanti Bank, is grappling with three questions. First, should GPS create its own mobile app for credit card customers or leverage the bank’s already... View Details

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May 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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Sovereign Wealth Funds: For Profits or Politics?

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set of investment principles to govern the Funds' activities. SWFs, broadly defined as an investment fund owned by a national or a government, were... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; State Ownership; United States

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