Publications

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)

officer, blending military and private industry best practices. And I’m using my business skills to establish a Navy Strategic Planning service model—a kind of startup... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

June 1998 (Revised December 2006)
Case

Clear Communications Ltd. vs. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (A)

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Martin Calles

Features the challenges facing an entrant in the New Zealand telecommunications market during the period 1989-1994. Clear Communications Ltd. (CCL), a joint venture owned by Bell Canada, MCI, New Zealand Television Corp., and Todd Companies, begins offering long... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Monopoly; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Strategy; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Law; Telecommunications Industry; New Zealand

30 Nov 2021
News

Glue for the High-Skill Gig Economy

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

February 2008
Case

Campbell Soup Company: Selling Channel Innovation to Customers

Campbell Soup, like most food manufacturers, faced grocery chain and wholesale demand for its goods driven by Campbell's own promotional pricing structure rather than retail consumer demand. Former policies to encourage overstock created huge swings in production and... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

November 2013
Case

IdentiGEN

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble

Ciaran Meghen and Ronan Loftus, co-founders of IdentiGEN (an Irish company that had created a unique service called DNA TraceBack to help customers identify and trace meat products), were discussing the company's future. The recent crisis over beef products being... View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; United States; Republic of Ireland

07 Feb 2008
News

Harvard Business School Faculty Members Win Smith Breeden Prize for Distinguised Paper in Finance

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

still a junior faculty member, focused on making tenure and writing a second book. That’s the year she got a call from the law firm Leigh Day, which was looking to sue the British government for reparations... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

December 2007 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Queensland Sugar Limited

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman

Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers have elected to continue collective marketing through QSL. However, several millers... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain; Network Effects; Supply and Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

nation’s infrastructure. They boost entrepreneurship by supplying seed capital for budding entrepreneurs, providing a range of support activities, and assisting in the... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

Web

Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

dramatic events in the international economy, such as recurrent banking and financial crises in several countries. Much of this explanation focuses on the role of confidence,... View Details

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

while Jewish people are the most targeted religious group. According to an article in the Washington Post, hate crimes are grossly underreported, and 90 percent of the country’s approximately sixteen... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

16 Mar 2018
News

Fundbox Wants to Be Paypal for Small Businesses.

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

Reprinted with permission from CommonWealth Magazine, which first published this article. These are times that none of us have seen before. Amid the radical uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, fear has... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
Background Note

The Pandemic's Impact on the U.S. Food System

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

This note is intended not as a comprehensive account but as a starting point for discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. food system. Written in late 2020, the note describes, in part through the voices of industry leaders, how the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Leadership; Change Management; Safety; Health; Health Pandemics; Disruption; Adaptation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Consumer Behavior; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States