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  • 2019
  • Article

Go-Shops Revisited

By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
A go-shop process turns the traditional M&A deal process on its head: rather than a pre-signing market canvass followed by a post-signing “no shop” period, a go-shop deal involves a limited pre-signing market check, followed by a post-signing “go shop” process to find... View Details
Keywords: Go-shop Process; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Deal; Performance Effectiveness; Technological Innovation
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  • January – February 2011
  • Article

'Bricks and Clicks': The Impact of Product Returns on the Strategies of Multichannel Retailers

By: Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona and Miklos Sarvary
The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to operate an online arm in addition to their physical stores. The online channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also... View Details
Keywords: Price; Profit; Marketing Channels; Consumer Behavior; Online Technology; Retail Industry
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Economic Sectors; Economy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; India
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    The Discipline of Business Experimentation

    The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As... View Details
    • 24 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

    facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
    • Web

    Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

    Garber’s message to the Harvard community earlier this week reflected on the disorienting tension the University recently has faced, recognized Claudine Gay’s service and leadership, and urged us to rededicate ourselves to free inquiry... View Details
    • 09 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 9, 2010

    presents the results of a study that investigated the use of the underdog effect in marketing. The idea of triumphing over disadvantages by impassioned determination is said to be a powerfully positive image, which can lead consumers to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

    research was conducted; and what the findings mean for business leaders, raters, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: How important are trustworthy credit ratings in the financial system? Could you give us some background? Bo Becker: Credit... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
    • Web

    Dillon House | About

    finance, government, diplomacy, economics, and art. A 1931 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1931 until 1936, when he became a director, and... View Details
    • November 2019
    • Case

    Scaling at Chief

    By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley and Katherine Chen
    Chief is a New York-based peer network that provides mentorship, support, networking opportunities, and a sense of community to women executives. Co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan launched the company in January 2019, and just two months later, Chief has... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Expansion; Growth Management; Customer Satisfaction; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    • 30 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    The Health Care Initiative at HBS

    coffee chats with CEOs, and treks to New York and San Francisco to meet with cutting edge companies. The club is one of the largest at HBS, and in my perhaps biased opinion, one of the most well-organized... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2006
    • News

    Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

    Myopia” has sold more than 850,000 reprints, making it one of the best-selling HBR articles of all time. In 1983, Levitt penned another classic with the HBR article “The Globalization of Markets.” Besides popularizing the word “globalization,” he asserted that View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 05 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: January 5

    pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the level of geographic aggregation.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 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
    • 30 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 30, 2007

    worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Program

    Public Education Leadership Project

    with other administrators and educators from across the country, your team of eight leaders from your district will refine your management model, develop new improvement strategies, and learn how to serve your students more effectively.... View Details
    • 31 Jul 2023
    • News

    Striving for Imperfection

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
    Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 28 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

    Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration faced the task of convincing a skeptical public of the safety of new vaccines when the agency began authorizing them for emergency View Details
    Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
    • Teaching

    Overview

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    Course Requirements

    Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

    Career Focus

    For... View Details
    • 02 Mar 2016
    • News

    David Moss is Rewriting History

    her presentations filled with motion and funny sound effects, and the students reflect that enthusiasm back to her. The case is complex in its details—focusing on the legislative and judicial machinations over New View Details
    Keywords: April White