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- 19 Apr 2019
- News
Tiger’s Back, and That’s Good News for Other Troubled Brands
Apple Computer 1992 - Showcased Among The Case Centre's 40th Anniversary Top 40 Bestselling Cases
Getting to the core of Apple: In 1991 the computer industry had just experienced its worst year in history. Although Apple had continued to outperform its competitors, the intense competition was putting acute pressure on its margins. This case examines Apple's... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise Architecture and Evaluating Enterprise IT Flexibility
- Research Summary
The Architecture of the Integrated Organization
By: Ranjay Gulati
In this research I explore how organizations balance pressures for efficiency with the need to be responsive at the same time. Operating in turbulent global markets it is increasingly important for firms to embrace both global efficiency and also local responsiveness.... View Details
- 2021
- Article
Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: Measurement and Growth Issues in the Digital Era
By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
Keywords: Industry Evolution; Advertising; Spending; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Media; Advertising Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J., and Ernst R. Berndt. "Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: Measurement and Growth Issues in the Digital Era." Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 15, no. 1 (2021): 1–85.
- December 2014
- Case
Louis Dreyfus Commodities
By: David E. Bell
Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC or Dreyfus) is the D of the ABCD grain-trading giants. The case describes how their business works and details the strategy by which management turned the company around in recent years. The case presents a number of issues facing the... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Commodity Trading; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Financial Markets; Business Strategy; Product Marketing
Bell, David E. "Louis Dreyfus Commodities." Harvard Business School Case 515-065, December 2014.
- 21 Sep 2009
- News
Harvard Business School Launches Programs For Real Estate Executives
- 09 Jul 2020
- News
5 Tips for Communicating with Employees During a Crisis
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
For Today’s Travel Businesses, Is It TripAdvisor or Bust?
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
The Secret to Making Anxiety Work in Your Favor
- 01 Apr 2021
- HBS Seminar
Luis Cabral, NYU Stern
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
The Great Resignation is no joke: Twenty-five percent of Americans changed jobs in 2021, and 53 percent say they’re going to change jobs. We’ve never seen numbers like this: historically low... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets of interrelated decisions. First, the MNE has to decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Winter 2023
- Article
Moral Firms?
Building a new political economy requires transforming our markets, our institutions, and our policy and regulatory regimes. In this essay, I argue that it also requires transforming the purpose of the firm: from a singular focus on maximizing financial returns to the... View Details
Henderson, Rebecca. "Moral Firms?" Daedalus 152, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 198–211.
- Winter 2016
- Article
Improving Store Liquidation
By: Nathan Craig and Ananth Raman
This paper introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on liquidation, not only as a... View Details
Craig, Nathan, and Ananth Raman. "Improving Store Liquidation." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 89–103.
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship
Using financial account data linking small businesses to their owner households, we examine how business owners’ consumption responded to changes in business revenues during the COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
key lessons learned? What changes do we need to make to our organization, procedures, and support resources? Assessing Your Crisis Response Plans Use the following table to assess your organization's plans to respond to a crisis and to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek—Lighting Liberia
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 313-032. After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced... View Details
Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Social Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek—Lighting Liberia." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note 316034, 2016.