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08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

is true. When Di Tella benchmarked these results against a sample of residents from the Buenos Aires metropolitan area with generally higher income and education levels, their responses tallied closely to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Article

Going Global: Lessons from Late Movers

By: C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal

Keywords: Global Range; Learning

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November 1997
Teaching Note

G.A. Kleissler Co., Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Teaching; Information

November 1997
Teaching Note

Disctech, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Teaching; Information

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

it had pledged to its early childhood education program, Group Up Great, in 2003. The case serves as an update to the "PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (A)" case, which outlined the design and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

January 2022
Case

Walmart Goes Global (A)

By: Juan Alcácer

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Failure; Retail Industry; Germany; China; Argentina; South Korea; Canada; Japan; Brazil; Africa; United Kingdom; United States; Mexico

March 2017
Teaching Note

AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market

By: Rory McDonald

Teaching Note for HBS No. 615-013. View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Strategy; New Markets; Grocery; Operations Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Emerging Markets; Learning; Service Operations; Online Technology; United States

2004
Case

Bristol City Schools (BCS)

By: Richard Elmore, Allen Grossman and Modupe N Akinola

Keywords: Education; Local Range

November 2017 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Wayfair: Fast Furniture?

By: Janice H. Hammond and Anna Shih

Keywords: Supply Chain; Logistics; Distribution; Web; Retail Industry; United States

February 2019 (Revised October 2022)
Case

Scandal at Steinhoff

By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso

Keywords: Volatility; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Corporate Accountability; Failure; International Finance; Restructuring; Business Conglomerates; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; South Africa; Austria; Netherlands

January 10, 2011
Column

Learning from Sustainable Community Experiments

By: Amy Edmondson, Tiona Zuzul and Robert Eccles

Keywords: Learning; Civil Society or Community

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September 2011
Case

Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts

USAP faces extraordinary opportunities to change the way that automobiles are serviced in the US by selling parts at fair prices though online channels. View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Machinery and Machining; Cost Management; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2010
Teaching Note

Stanford Graduate School of Business (TN)

By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin

Teaching Note for [308010]. View Details

Keywords: Education Industry; California

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

especially small- and medium-sized domestic companies. They provide the jobs, the income, and the motivation for individuals to become educated View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

spring 1991
Article

Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott

By: George P. Baker and Karen Wruck

Keywords: Learning; Leveraged Buyouts