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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the country. Q: And yet, the government is not opposed to so... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
biased. But the "pricing" section of the website advises that new hosts set rates with market demand in mind. For example, Airbnb tells new hosts they "may want to charge lower than average rates to attract travelers comparing your place... View Details
- May 20, 2016
- Comment
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
By: John A. Quelch
When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; World Health Organization; World Bank; Pandemics; Emergency Preparedness; Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Communication Strategy; Nonverbal Communication; Framework; Governance; Government and Politics; Health; Management; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare or Wellbeing; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Travel Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; South America; West Indies
Quelch, John A. "World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 20, 2016).
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and Spotify, and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
most during your research for this book? A: What was most interesting when I traveled to Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine and talked to these people in the government and in these political parties was to find out what exactly they took... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
receive lower prices in return but also because, in some cases,firms provide better service. A: There are many examples of how firms exploit consumer personal information to improve online services. Retailers and travel agencies, for... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
emotions, intuition, and training. Cases & Course MaterialsWhat Happened at Citigroup? Harvard Business School Case 310-004 What went wrong at Citigroup? In 1998, the Travelers Group and Citicorp merged to create Citigroup Inc.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
cancel company events that would have required customers or employees to travel to Indiana. And Apple CEO Tim Cook authored an op-ed in The Washington Post to oppose the legislation. The public outcry against the RFRA seemed to make an... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
confined by Geneva. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had this romantic vision of the Great West that drove him to travel and see so much of the country. He lived in Maine, he taught French at Harvard, he visited New York City, Philadelphia,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
and health care. For example, all aspects of travel (e.g. airports, flights, hotels, car hire, rebooking, monitoring payments, etc.) can be integrated into a single stream of activity that not only centers on individual support, but that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data to travel in packets over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208071 Fortis Healthcare (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-030 Should the Indian hospital chain enter the medical travel market or should it focus on expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
property owners and managers who supply them. The case traces HomeAway's founding and acquisition-led growth, its 2011 IPO, and the core elements of its subscription-based business model. By 2014, incumbent travel giants like TripAdvisor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
also been a strong advocate for the wider spread of the concept. Martin Bruncko, a 2003 graduate of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and the chief economic adviser to Finance Minister Mikloš, has traveled extensively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
marveled at humankind's resourcefulness and success: The chorus notes that without gills, man has devised ways to travel on the sea. He has invented speech, and plows for the earth. With these accomplishments he secures good things such... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
here we investigate the effects of time. We show that when social influence is intermittent it provides the benefits of constant social influence without the costs. Human subjects solved the canonical traveling salesperson problem in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
time to increase customer satisfaction. New research suggests there's a better approach: showing customers a representation of the effort, whether literal or not, being expended on their behalf while they wait. (The prototypical example is the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace