New Trading - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

lately, Sweden doesn’t seem as traditionally Swedish. The far-right Sweden Democrat party finished second in September’s election, touting an anti-immigrant campaign. The party’s parliamentary votes will influence the nation’s policies in the View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Business History - Faculty & Research

consumers based on new green brand identities. Spring 2014 Article Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

economic growth and competitiveness—including reforming the corporate tax code, easing immigration for high-skilled immigrants, investing in infrastructure, and aggressively addressing abuses in the international trading system—divisive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

Prior to the acquisition, Twitter as a company was much weaker than most people realize. They’ve struggled with profitability for many years, and they’ve been quite slow at innovating on new features and growth opportunities. By doing... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

Most of us would like to impress the people we work with. But new research from Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alexandra Feldberg finds that, for women managers, this aspiration can undermine performance. Feldberg discovered... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Exchange rates: current & historical

Expand GFDatabase menu (default) Select a country or region, e.g., United States. From the Filter by Series Category menu, select Exchange Rate. Click Search. For trade weighted indices for Australia, Great... View Details

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

Summing Up The global corporation and globalization in general are poised to achieve new and different heights, if responses to this month's column are to be believed. As Greg Bownik put it, "for globalization to peak businesses... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal Trade Commission argued that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide, of which Baker... View Details

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

experience to the American mass market. Wall Street bought into the vision of Starbucks as the "third place" after home and work. New store openings and new product launches fueled the stock price.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

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Skydeck - Alumni

Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) and Matthew Prince (MBA 2009) built a tech giant Reframing Modern Art Denise Murrell (MBA 1980) traded finance for fine arts—and cast a critical new eye on iconic paintings Lessons... View Details

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

phase; it simply doesn't represent a sustainable solution for consumers. Yet employers are the natural gatekeepers for retirement plans, he believes. For example, when focus groups were presented with a new retirement product, individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

store.” Instead, the sales associates—nicknamed “blue shirts” after Best Buy’s trademark royal-blue collared shirts—brought the injured T. rex to a service counter and performed “surgery” on the toy as they surreptitiously traded it out... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

August 2019
Case

Kazakhstan Railways: From the Middle of Nowhere to a Center of Trade?

By: Willy Shih and Esel Çekin

This case describes the evolution of Kazakhstan's rail connectivity strategy post-collapse of the Soviet Union and its now central role in China's Belt and Road Initiative. This meant shifting from a north-south orientation towards an east-west one, as well as the... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Logistics; Trade; Economic Growth; Geopolitical Units; Geography; Rail Transportation; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; China

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10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

Colleges and universities are learning what companies have known for a long time—when scandal breaks, business can take a significant hit. New research from Harvard Business School concludes that high-profile scandals on college... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

Research Summary

The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

preliminary findings suggest that the profound economic metamorphoses taking place in Latin America's emerging economies have imposed dramatic changes on the competitive environment, compelling firms to develop new strategies and... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

suggest that the approach might be used more widely in teaching technology management, particularly with "digital natives," who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment competing for their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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