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  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

channels. Vobejda said that when a retailer launches an Internet channel, "it is seen as a competitor by the store merchants." She said that making store staffers understand that the Internet can send traffic to their stores is a hard sell, but it's a View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • Profile

Hayling Price

skills developed at HKS with the finance, strategy, and other core business skills taught at HBS. Together, they give me a 360-degree view on how we, as a society, can tackle our most intractable social challenges." HBS has become... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services
  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Accel Partners' European Launch

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
In spring 2001, with the venture market crashing all around, the London office of Accel Partners, a major west coast venture capital firm, needs to make a decision about investing in an Irish software company. As the first investment of the new European operation, the... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Global Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Expansion; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; London; United States
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  • September 1990 (Revised November 1991)
  • Supplement

Procter & Gamble Japan (C)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino
Updates the (A) case. The issues facing P&G were two-fold. 1) General manager, Japan--how to keep both the business and organization growing; 2) President, international--what role should the Japanese operation play in the P&G worldwide business? View Details
Keywords: Business Offices; Business Growth and Maturation; Globalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizations; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Japan
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  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1992 (Revised March 1993)
  • Case

Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
The CFO of Fleetwood Enterprises is considering whether to recommend a large share repurchase to the board of directors. Fleetwood's core businesses, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles, are very sensitive to business cycles and oil prices. Following Iraq's... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital Structure; Stock Shares; Price; Crisis Management; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Iraq; Kuwait
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Is AI OK?

and attention, generosity and fairness. She cofounded pymetrics to capitalize on those existing tools. Polli and her partners developed a collection of gamified assessments and used them to evaluate top performers in various roles, like... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
  • Web

Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Medium: Industrial Photography and the Machine Age Any great art which might be developed in... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Growing Home

broadcasting station. Ibaraki prefecture had only one broadcasting station, including TV and radio, so that studio had a monopoly on the airwaves. So we bought a station from Asahi Shimbun newspaper company and turned it around, making it both an internet media View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • Web

Consumer Information | MBA

universities to publicly disclose various aspects of their policies and procedures. General HBS Policies Financial Assistance Information MBA Key Dates & Calendar Annual Cost of Attendance Leaves of Absence & Withdrawals Satisfactory... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

mistrustful of exotic foods." He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional kitchen could address that. From these fundamental observations, he soon View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Answering the Call

with both a coated and an uncoated product.” How Much You Asking for that Pile-Driver Pad? Case: Cumberland Metal Industries: Engineered Products Division — 1980 Written: 1980 Copies Sold: 197,677 Cumberland, a disguised company, has... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

was very thoughtful about these questions, and described his concerns about the next 10 to 20 years if we don’t manage the workforce transformation in a productive way,” says Kerr. “I don’t see technology as vastly reducing the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

is a diversified financial services holding company with more than 2,500 offices around the world, 14,000 associates, and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. James has always had an independent spirit. In college he and Mary View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 03 Oct 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

think most of management is willing to take the long view." These last comments provided a good lead-in to the question posed by Jay Somasundaram: "What types of leadership do we want most?" Where do we find such leaders? How do we View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • September 2009 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (A)

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. Eccles
Eden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the U.K. Contracting freelance consultants on a per-project basis keeps overheads lean so that Eden McCallum's fees are a fraction of the big firms' rates. Their flexible, low-cost model has... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Consulting Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

careers that are less financially rewarding. We need to find ways to help them focus on their ambitions rather than on the repayment of heavy debt. For all these reasons, it is crucial that we develop more... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. The company's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also stresses product quality, the value of the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

of reader e-mails, Jim Heskett wonders whether the term "servant leadership" is an oxymoron? Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 31 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

Wharton School as well as Columbia Business School’s Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman to develop the model that identifies routine users and their value. Not all rides are routines To track how targeting routines may work, the authors... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation