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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2003 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Peninsula Community Foundation

By: James E. Austin, Jane Wei-Skillern and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
After leading the Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF) through a period of tremendous growth, its president, Sterling Speirn, is facing the prospect of a decline in the foundation's asset base for the first time in the foundation's history. In addition, the fact that... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Product Positioning; Planning; Alliances; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

Confronting greater media scrutiny and an ever-increasing number of shareholder resolutions focusing on executive pay, Corporate America continues to support current pay practices as a product of "the market." Not too long ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It with Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Princeton University Press, 2011). Deepak Malhotra : Chosen by students in both 2011 and 2012 to give the Harvard Business School "Best of EC Year" speech to... View Details
  • 2012
  • Chapter

The Relational Roles of Brands

By: Jill Avery
In contemporary culture, brands play important relational roles, linking consumers to others and serving as relational partners. This chapter provides an understanding of the relational roles of brands to illuminate why and how consumers connect with brands and how... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand Management; Brand Equity; Brand Building; Customer Relationship Management; CRM; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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  • March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement

Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Rights; Working Conditions; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Cambodia; United States
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  • July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
  • Supplement

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland
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  • March 1996 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

Dewar's (C): Exploring New Media Opportunities

By: Alvin J. Silk and Lisa Klein Pearo
Dewar's is considering employing new media options. The company had committed resources to a new CD-ROM magazine, Launch, in 1994, as its first experiment with new media. During 1994, a number of additional opportunities have been presented to both Leo Burnett and S&S... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Cost Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Corporate Strategy
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  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

wondered if the regulatory events might affect Goodyear's ability to maintain its world leadership in the tire industry. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707494 J.R.D. Tata Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Research Summaries

Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

propositions that most people consider prudent " Duncan Watts himself found it "surprisingly hard to pin down. Roughly speaking, it is the loosely organized set of facts, observations, experiences,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

and mortar big box stores instead. Amazon, unburdened by such real estate, was easily able to mobilize Internet capabilities in order to capture a dominant share of a notoriously inefficient book retailing industry. It didn’t stop there.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

Verge Software (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • August 2003 (Revised September 2003)
  • Case

Tower Software

Tower Software (TS) is a publicly traded corporation engaged in multiple facets of the computer software business. Its flagship product, TS SERVE, is a successful proprietary network operating system. TS also develops and sells applications software for word... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Product Launch; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of vicarious utility because View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 1990 (Revised December 1993)
  • Case

Australian Paper Manufacturers (A)

By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
Describes a company which has broken an unwritten cordial agreement amongst the three Australian paper manufacturers to split the domestic market three ways by market segment. The company invades another's "territory" with advanced technology, quality, and,... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Production; Information Technology; Ethics; Situation or Environment; Product Development; Segmentation; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Australia
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  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

to ask questions and make comments. In reality, however, the speakers often do the opposite—dominating the time and not allowing for much discussion at all. "As professors we do this too," admits Gino. "It's very difficult when you think you have the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino