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01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

and supported the track programs at Stanford and at Drake University, where Johnson’s father began his coaching career in 1928. Closer to home, the foundation supports several smaller nonprofits that help local youth. “This town nurtured... View Details

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

away protectionist barriers in developing countries. As multinational corporations from North America, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea stormed into the emerging markets, many local companies lost market share or sold off... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

housing program. The initiative, Home for Good, collaborates with local service providers and tribal health organizations to deliver high-quality, culturally tailored care to those experiencing homelessness in the Anchorage community, the... View Details

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

products. Prior to the acquisition, Whole Foods began rolling out a new order-to-shelf (OTS) inventory management system that many observers believed had led to shortages. For years, store team leaders at Whole Foods were empowered to make inventory decisions and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

strategic relationships with many service providers to help exploit new opportunities in online-to-offline (O2O) services and leverage its huge user base in e-commerce and search. However, there was no room for complacency. Competition from the other big View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and growth in host countries, particularly developing countries. It provides a broad overview, with a focus on two elements that have recently become particularly important, (1) the role of complementary View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

policy makers, educators, and private-sector practitioners seek to promote it today. Though the past, present, and future of meritocracy-building in China and India have distinctive local inflections, their attempts to enhance their... View Details

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another class. Options include (but are not limited to): speech at a class event, an HBS MyTake, Toastmaster meeting, fundraising event, presenting an award, wedding toast, local club (Lions Club, Kiwanis, Junior League, etc.), K-12... View Details

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

lab, and a pharmacy. Could they convince rural Indians to leapfrog from local healers to telemedicine? And could they convince investors that their capital intensive, bundled offering was a high-growth, self-sustaining venture?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

platform for local fashion commerce. Oliver Segovia needs to evaluate where AVA should go next and answer some complicated personal questions. The case considers issues related to e-commerce platforms, diaspora-based international... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

demand for land for urban development? How could it ensure the sustainability of local government finances? Was the growing number of land protests the harbinger of major changes in China's political institutions? How would the challenges... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

lead to the chapel’s revitalization, calling on help from a local lawyer, Steve Kaplan, and reaching out to Michael Noonan, a senior planning manager with Hennepin County. He hadn’t spent much time in North Minneapolis, but knew there was... View Details

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

with trumpeter Yasek Manzano Silva (top)—and rum and cigar tastings with a local cigar “sommelier” (bottom). And there was romance in the challenge of Cuba, she says. Her life in San Francisco was easy—moved by Ubers, fed by Seamless,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

travel easily and at relatively low cost, but that (3) as one progresses from high-level to ground-level products and services and from high-level to ground-level know-how, ideas travel less easily. The work associated with them is more View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising

Art of Local Advertising . Boston: A. M. Thayer and Son & Co., 1889. --- Fowler’s Publicity: An Encyclopedia of Advertising and Printing . Boston: Publicity Publishing Company, 1900. --- Fowlers Publicity Encyclopedia . Chicago: Publicity... View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

most. "Don't be afraid to fail," is the advice he doles out most often — be it to kids at the local Boys & Girls Clubs, to the recipients of his fellowships at Columbia and HBS, or to his four sons. A native of Brookline, Massachusetts,... View Details

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details