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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

leading government officials to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth. Business is caught in a vicious circle. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2008 (Revised December 2011)
  • Case

Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
Setting up the goal to become one of the top 20 enterprises in the world dairy industry by 2010, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group had ambitious plans. As one of China's biggest national dairy companies, its main challenge was competing as a local company against... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Competition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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  • July 2017 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Sampark Foundation: Transforming Primary Education in India

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Shweta Bagai
Founders Vineet and Anupama Nayar had rapidly scaled their foundation to reach 3 million primary school children (grades 1 to 3) in two states with math and English programs. Their goal was to reach 10 million children by 2025 and completely spend down the $100 million... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Management; K-12 Education; Frugal Innovation; Government Partnership; Impact; Developing Countries; Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Outcome or Result; India
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  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—Do multinational corporations (MNCs) have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2015
  • News

Boston 2024's New Olympic Strategy: Harvard Biz Prof Wonders If Regionalization Will Hurt or Help?

  • Web

Courses - Entrepreneurship

estate developers to inventors. TEM will give students the opportunity to hone their skills in identifying and testing business opportunities, decomposing complex business problems, determining what... View Details
  • December 2015
  • Article

Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?

By: Raffaella Sadun
Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Competition; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

Nelson Peltz in 2012. He wanted to split Kraft’s global business by spinning off its North American grocery products unit, which Rosenfeld wound up leading as an international... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status | About

Certificate of Completion for self-paced programs Certificate of Participation for real-time, interactive programs Credential of Readiness, a three-course program that offers the possibility of earning undergraduate credit Alumni Status :... View Details
  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Productivity Gains from Multinational Activity

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen
The impact of multinational activity on host-country productivity has been a major topic of economic research. A positive impact can be attributed to knowledge spillovers from foreign multinational to domestic firms or a less stressed, alternative explanation—firm... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Supply and Industry; Knowledge; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 27 Jul 2021
  • Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 16 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

controlled for industry and stage in the business cycle.” Bob Vanourek, citing results of a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, said that long-term oriented firms in its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

Teaching Note | Faculty Research As global alliances evolve and regulatory barriers mount, LATAM Airlines must reassess the strategic logic of partnerships. In 2019, Delta Air Lines proposed a $1.9 billion... View Details
  • November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
  • Supplement

Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (B)

By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer
In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details
Keywords: History; Adaptation; Policy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Macroeconomics; Restructuring; Global Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • 06 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

Harvard Business School's Baker Library is hosting a historical exhibit that examines the advertising industry in a bygone era, when marketers still had to depend on printed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • April 2003
  • Tutorial

ABC Pen Factory Tutorial

By: Robert S. Kaplan
To preview this online product, Authorized Faculty can call our customer service department at 1-800-545-7685 or 617-783-7600. Illustrates, via a guided audio tour accompanied by dynamically changing spreadsheets, the role for activity-based cost systems. The numerical... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants
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  • December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

The Shouldice Hospital Today

By: James Heskett and Roger Hallowell
The leadership and staff of Shouldice Hospital in Toronto, Canada have, for 75 years, sought to do one thing better than any other hospital in the world, repair inguinal hernias. For some years, a possible second hospital in another market has been under consideration.... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Health Industry; Toronto; Canada; United States
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  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

rating agencies. We use the rise of a third ratings agency to examine competition and reputation. Consistent with Klein and Leffler (1981), competition leads to lower quality in the ratings market: the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace