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  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2016
  • News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

Italy, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. He advised public administration institutions, regional governments, and multinational institutions. In 1998, Duch also became the founding chairman of the Competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

and Tommy Pan Fang of Rice University—looked at communication patterns among more than 12,000 employees working for a large multinational corporation across all major time zones. The team studied their Skype messages, emails, phone calls,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

is the largest ice cream producer in Russia in 2002, but is facing strong competition from Nestle despite its success over other multinational competitors. Contains detailed exhibits, allowing deeper analyses. A rewritten version of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2016
  • Case

IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
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  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

look beyond just relocating supply toward harnessing process innovations and revisiting some of the trade-offs between product variety and flexibility. Harvard Business Review Webinar Student Perspective on Entrepreneurial Journey Having... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

entrepreneurs have to make tough choices all the time. Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Women & Enterprise, advised, "Don't go with your gut without doing analysis." In contrast, Roxanne Quimby, founder, president, and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

pushing the envelope on offering products for an emerging market, the need to go in and set up a business or acquire your own company in order to have exposure to this area is lessened. What many firms or asset managers who want exposure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

of investment greatly matters. Accordingly, prior studies find that cash holdings enable firms to increase product market share at the expense of their rivals. Recently, however, U.S. multinational firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

your developers are following secure coding and testing practices. Those who aren't may be costing your company large sums of money. One multinational database supplier estimates that releasing a major patch (a fix for a problem in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

challenges associated with developing, overseeing, or interacting with a platform business Explore strategies for transitioning a product or service into a platform Build offensive and defensive plans to effectively develop or compete... View Details
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food and nonfood lines, but differ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

in those areas. However, those incremental sales were offset by lower margins and return on equity, negating the benefits of those higher sales. "This evidence suggests that multinationals that tolerate corruption are able to grow their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding