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- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Given the nature of some unusually thoughtful responses, there was no consensus on the question of whether Walmart has reached its full potential. Comments raised even more interesting questions surrounding the dynamic of relationships... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
constrained agency through which a particular network action is taken can affect actors' ensuing structural positions and the nature of the constraints they subsequently face. Our conceptualization of constrained agency identifies new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
options. Brand manager Margaret Foley is facing an increasingly complex media environment in which her traditional media plan, focused on television, print, and radio advertising, has become less effective due to declining audiences,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of real estate investment trusts (REITs), heretofore a little-used option.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
from regulators rose by 15 percent. He also found that the nature of many violations was more severe in towns without newspapers. “If you can do whatever you want and no one is looking, you’re more likely or more willing to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
The Internet is changing the nature of competition in virtually every industry. And according to HBS professor David Yoffie, competing in the Internet age is more than just a matter of having to do everything faster. In their book,... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
processes and well-treated people can be a natural fit rather than some kind of painful tradeoff." Not For The Shortsighted Ton acknowledges that the model could be difficult to implement for companies focused more on meeting Wall... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
largely in the hands of those who lead our service organizations. It’s natural that we would look to leaders in the service sector for the same cutting-edge practices that we used to find being implemented in the past in our large... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48776 Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-003, August 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The fourth such global meeting was just held in early December in Busan, South Korea. “We need to encourage risk-taking by organizations, provided that it's accompanied with rigorous data collection." —Alnoor Ebrahim In this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging possible unintentionality may encourage settlement due to the typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk preferences and the underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
and the definitions of what you should be doing—tend to be masculine or male. And with those triggers present, if there's ambiguity about who should be claiming resources, well, the environment tells you who should be claiming more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
are often natural and subconscious individual behaviors, making it easier for a person to make the right choice. The 2008 book Nudge, written by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, piqued their interest. (The book also inspired the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
nature of cases is changing as well, with more cases focusing on international and global issues, as compared to single-country cases that are easier for a faculty member to do on his or her own. (See More on this Article for case... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- July 2013
- Case
Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product... View Details
Keywords: System Complexity; Industrial Enzymes; Ethanol; Collulosic Ethanol; Fermentation; Genomics; Genetic Engineering; Value Chain; Assembling Value Chain; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Production; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark; United States
Shih, Willy, and Sen Chai. "Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 614-001, July 2013.