Gains From Multinational Production - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

deeply hit by pandemic and seismic culture shifts, it’s important to recognize that many of the Japanese companies in the Tohoku region continue to operate today, despite facing serious financial setbacks from the disaster. How did these... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

expert to her team, and started hiring staff from nail salons and department-store cosmetics counters. "It feels really good to have something you worked so hard for come to reality," she almost bubbled. Still to come were the... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

will work together. Even if you don't develop a close personal bond, doing so will help you create a productive working relationship. Matching Your Requests For Support To Your Situation The type of support you need View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

foreign income from taxation. The intuition for this is that tax rules should leave "who owns what" undistorted. If countries impose worldwide taxation, then the highest-productivity buyers may be handicapped by their tax... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

installment plan available to the average person. Between 1840 and 1890, four products—furniture, pianos, farm equipment, and sewing machines—spread credit financing through the world. In their different ways, these particular products... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

forced to consider global competition as a factor in planning. In addition, the wartime disruption of foreign multinationals enabled U.S. companies to profit from the postwar boom without effective... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

07 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

items they presumably liked better, rather than reflexively buying the discount items presented to them first. “If you make the bargain bin the centerpiece of the store, they get focused on the bargain bin, and there are only a handful of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

change careers after HBS, and CPD works to help each student define their own unique career vision. The CPD team includes over 50 career coaches who specialize in different industries, geographies or life stages. CPD partners with over 1,500 organizations View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/ Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

meanwhile, managed a startling recovery from its five-year slump. The company’s third-quarter sales increased by more than 5 percent over last year, and in August online revenue showed especially high growth of a whopping 41 percent—the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

particular field your venture intends to address, you may need a cofounder with domain specific expertise. Having domain expertise will not only inform the product strategy, but will also help the venture View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in the Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

promising technology—and its first designs didn't work. She and her management colleagues were unknowns, and the product failures subtracted from their slight credibility. And at the time, she said,... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

provided more substantial coverage than what I previously had from school versus on the job. Emily Stebbins External Vendor Data Relationship Manager, Index & Data Solutions at BlackRock Jumpstart your career by View Details

Jul 2012
Article

A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

The U.S. corporate tax code is broken. High rates and perverse incentives drive capital away from the corporate sector and toward other uses and countries. This is bad news for U.S. workers, because corporations aren't making investments... View Details

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the companies involved in moving goods... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Intelligence Analyst at Ministry of Justice New Zealand. I'm leading a few modelling and reporting projects across the Ministry using the knowledge I gained from the course. Hi n Nguy n Th Business... View Details

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