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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
C. Roland Christensen was one of the founders of the field of business strategy and the world’s leading authority on case method teaching. Legacy Harvard Business School Professor C. Roland (Chris)... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career Army officer, he lived in many... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
business and economics as a whole. Eyes On The Ball In order to determine the effect of racial discrimination on baseball games, Parsons and colleagues Johan Sulaeman of Southern Methodist University, Michael View Details
- August 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea?
By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Pippa Tubman Armerding
The setting for this case is the Sian Flowers, a company headquartered in Kitengela, Kenya that exports roses to predominantly Europe. Because cut flowers have a limited shelf life and consumers want them to retain their appearance for as long as possible, Sian or its... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chains; Sustainability; Sustainable Agriculture; Sustainability Reporting; Carbon Emissions; Supply Chain Management; Quality; Ship Transportation; Cost Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Kenya; Netherlands; Europe
Shih, Willy C., Michael W. Toffel, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea?" Harvard Business School Case 623-008, August 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
more, that wouldn’t work,” he says. “But if I am in fact using some of that time to do other things to make the world better, then that’s a pretty good trade-off.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
overcome the limits placed upon it by the Party. Or, as the authors call it, "Party, Inc." It's not spoiling anything to say that the book answers its own question with, if not an outright no, then at least a highly qualified maybe. Click... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that no one else does” That's exactly what Cohen has been doing for the last three years in the MBA field course Stock Pitching, which he co-teaches with Christopher J. Malloy, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management.... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Shutterstock/Min C. Chiu] What do you think it takes to succeed as a remote team? Share your insights in the comments below. Book... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds,... View Details
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Timothy C. Draper | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy... View Details
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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
television. In a recent working paper, How TV Ads Trigger Online Shopping, Teixeira explores this concept, analyzing how advertisers can turn this trend to their advantage. Along with fellow researchers Jura Liaukonyte of Cornell University and Kenneth View Details
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
recognition system was essentially dismantled in 1956 with a consent decree signed by the trade associations involved in administering the system. But nothing much changed. As Silk, Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, and James View Details
- July 2023
- Supplement
Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea? – PowerPoint Supplement
By: Willy C. Shih and Michael W. Toffel
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
HBS professor Michael A. Roberto and Senior Researcher Lynne C. Levesque decided to look deeper into why some initiatives fail and others succeed. How do some change initiatives take hold and almost become... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace