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- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
Sugar Limited Harvard Business School Case 508-038 Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single-desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
condition—to patients and society—than it should be.” By some estimates, about 10 percent of costs in the health care system are due to diabetes-related procedures. “If you had a diabetes center giving patients a diabetes boot camp and... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Capital landed on ex-ante rating system for any potential investment that produced a proprietary expected impact. With this tool in place, Root Capital had an integrated picture of impact and financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games By: Davies, Andrew, and Ian Mackenzie Abstract—Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction programme showed that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
and Partners P-TECH, an innovation in public education conceived by IBM in partnership with the New York City K-12 public education system and the city's two-year colleges, had barely been underway when other cities and states wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
Berlin-based nonprofit that supports "national integrity systems" to help curb corruption, Ezekwesili told the HBS audience that it's not enough for African governments to aspire to macro- and microeconomic stability. "We... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
within-firm processes. By doing so, we may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives and their families both abroad and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
characterizes the U.S. model of management as focused on immediate outcomes and results and generally accustomed to having its way. But it has an added feature that enables it to remain powerful even as it is transformed. "When it's advantageous," Quelch... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
was post-communist Estonia that launched the Eastern European wave in 1994. Though Slovakia was not the first country to adopt a flat tax nor is it the biggest economy, Slovakia has raised some important issues regarding tax harmonization within Europe and the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
reward their own drives." Inspired by the writings and insights of Charles Darwin, specifically his 1871 masterwork The Descent of Man, Lawrence's new book, Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, offers managers an View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
from the James Patterson brand. Patterson brings an ad man's sophistication to marketing his work. "I see his success as a sublime integration of operations and marketing," says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
this case is defined as patient outcomes per dollar spent; the goal is to achieve the best possible outcome at the lowest possible cost. In contrast, today's American health care system tends to emphasize billing for individual... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
management systems and practices that might work well in one country but can be disastrous in another. Q: What are some of the most important similarities and differences you found in comparing British and Dutch business history? How do... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
relationship; (b) reviews the literature on antecedents, consequences, and integration of M&A in the context of innovation; and (c) identifies potential directions of further research on this topic that have both theoretical and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has wrought fundamentally threaten... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace