Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (9,328) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (9,328) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 280 of 9,328 Results →
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

at the expense of others. You have the license to be a bank because you're supposed to make the world a better place. Instead, when a group of banks makes very poor decisions, all because individuals were... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma

By: Dante Roscini and John Masko
In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy
Related
  • 19 Jan 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

provide a good physical environment in a nonpublic, quiet area of the organization; and later allow those who carried out the layoffs to decompress and debrief. What Do Companies Lose When They Cut Corporate Giving? Corporate Social View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

by Harvard Business School's Aldo Musacchio in the BGIE Unit, showing that this hypothesis has little empirical support. A careful study of 19th-century French and American law, for example, found little difference between the two countries in the legal system's View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Lisa Cousins

culture, and team dynamics are critical to achieving success as a company and happiness as an individual. I have been fortunate to work with amazing leaders who have encouraged and enabled me View Details
Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

To create synergy, we require more than a concept and a strategy. The enterprise value proposition defines the strategy for value creation through alignment, but it doesn't describe how to achieve it. The... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

Institutional Logics By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
Related
  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

companies, that's too simple because it ignores the cost on the firms you’re supporting,” says Roth, author of the new working paper Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship. Decisions on how best to support social... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose: This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership and relationship marketing perspective. It studies a case of how a partnership between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Partners and Partnerships; Marketing Strategy; Culture; Banks and Banking
Related
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

range and retailers who serve these categories are among the walking dead. Q: The book outlines three strategies for retailers to consider as responses to the online threat.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • August 2020
  • Article

Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led many transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance. Drawing on thousands of audits conducted by a major social auditor, we identify structural... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Governance Compliance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Global Range; Working Conditions
Related
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

investors. We view crises as opportunities. We, the non-politicians, need to accept responsibility for fixing the country and get on with it. matthew C. Weinzierl, Assistant Professor Of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • November 2016 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Improving Access at VA

By: Ryan W. Buell, Robert S. Huckman and Sam Travers
In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Social Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Government Administration; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; United States
Related
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

fact, in recent years, Blum and his team were responsible for more such outsized successes than any other producer, especially in the horror genre. The company’s approach to moviemaking is quite different... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

The Tzu Chi Foundation's China Relief Mission

By: Herman B. Leonard and YiKwan Chu
Tzu Chi is one of the largest charities in Taiwan, and one of the swiftest and most effective relief organizations internationally. Rooted in the value of compassion, the organization has many unusual operating features -- including having no long term plan. This case... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Religion; Natural Disasters; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; China; Taiwan
Related
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012. In response to the announcement, its stock price fell 29% (its stock price had fallen from $77 to $11... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel