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- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
supermarkets over independent shops and the fact that processed tomatoes were considered a commodity, fierce competition for miniscule profits was the norm. So Francesco decided to close Mutti's side businesses in cheese and cattle and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
and empirical implications that focus on the interface between technological shifts and identity change at multiple levels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-048.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
military or civilian officials are transferred to another assignment or leave the government. New officials take over and shift the focus to other activities, and the old problems begin to resurface. Were there a more attractive... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing costs affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
novel proposals. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184791 IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Henkel, Joachim, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
been stationed on the East Coast, rather than its Portland headquarters, and the choice was deliberate. Between her presence and experience, as well as her particular brand of service leadership, McKenna is already shifting the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
current and aspiring leader to reach their full, authentic potential. Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World By George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Harper Collins Leadership Are purpose and View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
response in receiver actions after learning that they were profitably deceived. Despite the change in receiver behavior, stated beliefs about sender strategies remain insufficiently skeptical, which suggests that while direct and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
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orientation Analytical thinking Comfort with ambiguity Applied expertise Measurement-focused What makes it challenging to work in Baker Library? Constant evolution in the information industry and scholarly publishing A shift to a more... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
take me from '87 to essentially 1990. That process and how that plays out. Warwick: One of the assumptions I made was I wanted to change management and increase profitability and that the family would somehow stay in, which was an... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
entrepreneurs sensed that they, too, were standing on the edge of history, bending authority to their will and reaping fabulous profits along the way. Some of them succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Pioneers such as Thomas Edison and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- Profile
Michael Maples
an early investor in Twitter, Weebly, Bazaarvoice, Twitch, Chegg, Demandforce and a raft of others, Maples has been on a long and profitable roll. Part of his success came from his personal experience as an entrepreneur. Having co-founded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change? Using a cost-based theoretical framework of bundling due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
to see corporate tax reform proceed in a revenue-neutral way, with reduced rates and a shift to territoriality funded by changing the treatment of pass-throughs and by aligning the characterization of View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a puzzle surrounding the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman cowrote an article... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
world. With Thomas H. Lee, MD, Bohmer authored the opinion piece "The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations," which appeared in the August 5, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Bohmer recently... View Details