Porter's Five Forces - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Harvard University. For more information, please visit the program's website or reach out to the program director, Jane Unrue. Negotiating with Vladimir Putin: Video Advice from Five Former U.S. Secretaries of State HBS professor James K.... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Twitter’s profitability and the way the company was managed? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-019 MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha The case opens in 2017 with two of the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

So on climate change, for example, how do you create a market where people get credit for avoiding deforestation, which contributes to greenhouse gases? Is the emphasis on understanding and altering market forces something new for the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

strategies, shortcomings, and achievements play out in the future? How do we imagine this great and resurgent nation with its embedded conflicts and challenges will look in 2034? We examine successively the forces that have made China as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

trust. Lavish executive compensation not only drains the corporate treasury and dilutes the shareholders' earnings, but, perhaps even more importantly, it can lead the recipients to believe that they really are worth five hundred times... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Austin, explores the motivations behind such partnering.What motivates organizations to collaborate? It is important to understand the motivating forces behind the decisions of businesses and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to enter... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

launch the strategy revolution. The Corporate Apocalypse and Greater Taylorism After America’s postwar boom and preeminence, factors arose that made strategy consulting both inevitable and irreplaceable. Every historical period feels itself beset with View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case study that looks at the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

readmission to HBS, was accepted, and graduated as a Baker Scholar. I’ve told my five children to apply themselves when faced with negative events—my experience is an example to encourage anyone. Robert Capria (MBA 1969) What if Harry... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

he disappears for five days. Well, first of all, I've taught a lot. I wrote a book called Seven Lessons for Leading a Crisis. If you're a leader and you're in crisis, you go out right away. Instantly. Howard Schultz did this along with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

example would be laptop computers that vary in configuration, with one having a CD-ROM and another having a wireless modem. Entrees in a restaurant would be another example. In these cases, choosing one alternative provides you with some features, but View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

communication, networking, and policy advocacy. As COO, Brooks is the steadying force who keeps the ship on course, by overseeing strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as evaluating programs to determine what is working... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

by a deep East-West cleavage born from the refugee crisis. Against this backdrop, a Germany that is not all that it seems has become Europe’s de-facto ruler but is unfit to lead, while Trump’s America cannot be counted on as before, View Details

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the "bottom-up" View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

well, making Seven Bucks Productions a force to be reckoned with in the world of entertainment. Are Johnson and Garcia right to bet on a new digital channel, which is scheduled to make its debut on YouTube in the next month, and do they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

intuition for the basic economic forces in this decentralized market through a series of examples that sequentially build on each other layering on the particular fees and collateral requirements commonly levied in short-selling... View Details