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  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

other mistake companies make with innovative culture is presenting it as something that is going to be really fun." And, sometimes responding is not even the right response. As I write in the book with the example of digital photography, sometimes a new thing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2017
  • HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

depressed, or concerned.” But these standards are merely guidelines, not laws. “These are not really regulations,” Deshpandé says. “They’re suggestions.” That leaves WOW organizers concerned that cream manufacturers can use questionable marketing tactics to View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Q1Q2 3.0 Finance Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) C. Fritz Foley Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating Value Through View Details
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

declared bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. “All stakeholders must work together to make GM's bankruptcy filing a comma rather than a period in the storied history of this American corporate icon." -Daniel Heller Its future appears... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Derek Ferguson

Music, a retailer based in the Midwest. “Its biggest profit drivers were rap and hip-hop,” he remarks. “I remember thinking that there was a real opportunity to cater more directly to that customer base.” To learn more about the business,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

information. We implement an experiment where senders are required to report their private information truthfully but can choose how complex to make their reports. We find that senders use complex disclosure more than half the time. Most of this obfuscation is View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in many industries by large, multinational View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

High Honors

Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

profits continued to be an important source of funds for the British merchant groups, after 1870 they also drew substantially on outside funds to finance expansion into new activities. Partners and directors of the merchant houses did not... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 2007
  • Book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
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  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

Gourville discusses the price-versus-quantity dilemma in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: When prices for raw materials increase, companies need to compensate to keep their profit margin on target. What are the typical responses? John... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March 2022
  • Supplement

Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (B)

By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in January 2022 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are looking over the performance of the newly launched “buy now, play later” feature. The traction looks... View Details
Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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