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Ranjay Gulati
Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013 - 24 Oct 2013
- Conference Presentation
Key Drivers for Inner City Growth
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) annual ecomonic summit. The 2013 theme: Transforming Urban Ecologies, What Works for Cities View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Key Drivers for Inner City Growth." Paper presented at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Cleveland, OH, October 23–24, 2013.
- July 2010
- Case
Metabical: Positioning and Communications Strategy for a New Weight Loss Drug
By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham
Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP) expects final approval for its revolutionary weight loss drug, Metabical. Metabical will be the only weight loss drug with FDA approval that is also clinically proven to be effective for moderately overweight people. Barbara... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Communications; Product Launch; Consumer Behavior; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Quelch, John A., and Heather Beckham. "Metabical: Positioning and Communications Strategy for a New Weight Loss Drug." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-240, July 2010.
Joseph B. Lassiter
Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details
- Research Summary
State-Business Relations
By: Meg Rithmire
In Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023) and related papers, I examine the political foundations and economic effects of different patterns of state-business relations in authoritarian regimes with a... View Details
- 09 Apr 2013
- Video
Reset - Episode 2 - Moving Forward
- March 1992
- Case
Applied Materials
Describes three subsequent generations of product development effort at an equipment firm supplying the semiconductor industry. The firm is partway into the third generation development and must decide whether and how to accelerate product development to respond to... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Industry Structures; Industrial Products Industry; Semiconductor Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Applied Materials." Harvard Business School Case 692-078, March 1992.
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
economic and social value. The goal of the corporation is to add value to employees, customers, suppliers and other partners, and community/society. These CEOs and the companies they lead make decisions with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Clubs
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- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Why recent stock market gains might not benefit the economy
- March 1993 (Revised June 1993)
- Supplement
McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (B)
Describes McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.'s investment decision and strategic plans in 1990, following the situation in the (A) case. Outlines the competitive situation in other types of mobile communications in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1991. View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Communication Technology; Competition; Mobile Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., Chris Shumway, and Sharon L. Rossi. "McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 793-050, March 1993. (Revised June 1993.)
- September 1993 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
China (A): The Great Awakening
By: Debora L. Spar
As the third largest economy after the United States and Japan, China's startling economic growth has spurred increasing interest in the economic, social, and political factors that catapulted the country to sudden prominence. This case starts with an overview of the... View Details
Spar, Debora L. "China (A): The Great Awakening." Harvard Business School Case 794-019, September 1993. (Revised September 1997.)
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- August 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
Imedia Corporation: The Pricing Decision
Efi Arazi, the president of a start-up called Imedia, must determine an appropriate pricing strategy for an innovation that will change the basis of competition in the cable TV industry. View Details
Kosnik, Thomas J., and Doron Kempel. "Imedia Corporation: The Pricing Decision." Harvard Business School Case 598-005, August 1997. (Revised September 1997.)
- 2019
- Chapter
A Claim to Own Productive Property
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "A Claim to Own Productive Property." Chap. 10 in Economic Liberties and Human Rights. 1st ed., edited by Jahel Queralt and Bas van der Vossen, 200–218. Political Philosophy for the Real World. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
distinct competitive disadvantage for nonprofits." A small number of attempts are under way to begin to alleviate some of these problems, Grossman notes, including some eight... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 2018
- Introduction
Introduction: History and Political Economy
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Introduction: History and Political Economy." Introduction to New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 11–32. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.