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- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
and acting. He concluded that tactical and strategic victory hinges on cycling through this loop faster than the enemy (or by disrupting the enemy's ability to connect those activities efficiently). The first two elements—observing and... View Details
- February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
Doing Business in New Delhi, India
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Radhika Kak. "Doing Business in New Delhi, India." Harvard Business School Case 323-083, February 2023. (Revised February 2025.)
- March 2014
- Article
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence." Journal of Monetary Economics 62 (March 2014): 76–93.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education by Michel Anteby (University of Chicago Press) How does HBS try to ensure that its faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Associate Professor Anteby finds that silence plays a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
the piano bench, and he’s proudest of having persuaded several famous performers to come to the chapel: Christopher Hogwood played the extremely soft-volumed clavichord surrounded by the audience in circles of chairs; Michael Chance, a countertenor, sang Franz... View Details
- August 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Siebel Systems: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 2
By: John A. Deighton and Das Narayandas
How does a $2 million software sale happen? This case traces efforts by Siebel Systems to sell lead management software to discount broker Quick & Reilly. The buying process is mapped out over four years. Covers in detail the last six months--from Siebel's initial... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Leadership; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Competition; Applications and Software; Technology Industry
Deighton, John A., and Das Narayandas. "Siebel Systems: Anatomy of a Sale, Part 2." Harvard Business School Case 503-022, August 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Diversifying the Nigerian Economy
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
of emails from our membership in my first six months here. I still ride regularly, and it’s great that I don’t have to make an excuse for it. It’s understood why the head of USA Cycling would ride his bike. View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
once again. Some 2,800 graduates and guests from five MBA classes took to the campus as though they’d never left, enjoying a busy schedule of social events and academic presentations by HBS and Harvard University faculty. As it happens, View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
—End-users have no mechanism enabling effective procurement through uniform templates, which can be contextually linked to government authorized schedules. This often causes a nonsensical lengthening of the purchasing cycle whereby most... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
surgical team, the overall care cycle is crucial. Unless the patient's problem is accurately diagnosed, the patient is properly prepared, and recovery and rehabilitation are managed well, patient results will suffer. Indeed, the impact of... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
out of the cycle of poverty. At least 11 of his students have gone on to become doctors, according to family records, including his very first student: Dr. Malarkodi opted to became an internal medicine specialist rather than a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
years is the reported average tenure for turnaround artists), profits may be better but the company is strategically weaker. And their turnaround has not involved investment in leaders for the future. As a result, there are no CEOs within. Until that View Details
- March 2005 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Cisco Systems: Managing the Go-to-Market Evolution
With the collapse of the dot-com market and related shrinkage in the high-tech industry, Cisco took a dip in its sales and profits in 2001. Coming back from the recession, Cisco had to manage and evolve its go-to-market strategy and design in keeping with its new... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Design; Business Cycles; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Business Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Cisco Systems: Managing the Go-to-Market Evolution." Harvard Business School Case 505-006, March 2005. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
the cycle and beginning it anew. Total revenue for fiscal 2008 increased by $46 million to $451 million, up 11.4 percent from the previous year. Executive Education and HBP revenues rose by a combined $26 million to $245 million, and... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
investment must be conversant in investing... Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Sherri Geng, Harlem Children's Zone Sherri Geng 08 May 2018 The goal of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) is to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty i...... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
cycles. The Bank's existing project/policy cycle provides a structure for improving participation in Bank operations. Many of the constraints noted above can be addressed as follows: All stages of the project/policy View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Thrive! helps communities of color Roughly 84 percent of children born into poverty will live in poverty for the rest of their lives. Thrive! is a software-as-a-service that helps local governments break the cycles of poverty in... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
cycle can mean the difference between a small business growing or just staying flat. And, the good news is that we’re seeing innovative ideas in both policy and products on this front—ideas that actually help small businesses manage their... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills