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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 21, 2022
- Article
Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?
By: Willy C. Shih
The conflict in Ukraine is only the latest jolt to global supply chains. Disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, climate-related events, and geopolitical tensions were already undermining their rationale. As companies rethink sourcing, they will have to consider... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Distribution; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Asia; Europe
Shih, Willy C. "Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 21, 2022).
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
a different approach in the case of store liquidations," he says. "That's because you can close stores at different times; move inventory between stores; and take different markdowns in different locations. There's also a huge... View Details
- 22 Jul 2013
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Meeting Management Challenges in India
Lakshmi Iyer believes the problem has more to do with intellectual pirates than the cinematic kind. Modern Indian Art: The Birth Of A Market Before 1995, there was little market for twentieth-century Indian fine art. That's when artists, auction houses, critics, View Details
Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Rohit Deshpande
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/bvillalonga/VillalongaAmit_FM_Final.pdf Working Papers Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
advantage on firms and countries and a convenient, inexpensive, and relatively clean source of carbon energy on the world's consumers. As a result, there is a race to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
volunteering if this history is public rather than private. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Caterpillar, Inc. (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
Analyst must identify role of management and actuarial judgment in measuring corporate post employment benefit obligations and assets. View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Caterpillar, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-032, January 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
the Internet," he concluded. "This will favor the cheapest suppliers and keenest buyers and thus hold down prices and inflation while raising productivity."... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
ranked the world's second-largest consumer of energy. This note provides background on China's energy industry and provides details on China's leading state-owned energy companies, production View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
increase sales and shareholder value. Coke and Pepsi both want to increase the amount of carbonated soft drinks that we consume. If Pepsi and Coke go after each other in... View Details
- November 2021
- Supplement
Ant Group (B)
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Feng Zhu and Susie L. Ma
Keywords: Information Technology; Value Creation; Network Effects; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; China
Palepu, Krishna G., Feng Zhu, and Susie L. Ma. "Ant Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 122-040, November 2021.
- June 1995 (Revised July 2006)
- Supplement
Barilla SpA (D): JITD Problem Resolution
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Hammond, Janice H. "Barilla SpA (D): JITD Problem Resolution." Harvard Business School Supplement 695-066, June 1995. (Revised July 2006.)
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
can do x,’” says Cheney. “I had an ‘aha’ moment that there was a lack of a marketplace to connect the supply and demand on that.” A New Recruiting Solution is Born Cheney built out the concept for Prokanga... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
matching the ratio between his cost and the price he charges. For example, if he buys the papers for ten cents and sells them for seventy cents, and his records show that View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Chapter
The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic enrollment with an employer match. This raises a question about how effective... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Compensation and Benefits
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment." In Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise, 311–327. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
produce buyers and proposed this solution. The buyers agreed, but they indicated they would only want to purchase a small fraction of the order that they had originally placed with Gotham Greens since the View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati