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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
keep close watch over them. In 2015, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, highlighted the problem. “A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international emergency,” she wrote in a statement.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness', 1890–1938 By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
value claimers, and this all-for-me attitude becomes apparent in a variety of ways. For example, during internal corporate budget disputes, some executives focus only on their own needs without considering the requirements of other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (SANY), SANY Group's major subsidiary, engaged in the construction equipment business and was number six on International Construction's 2012 Yellow Table, a ranking of the world's largest construction equipment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
recounts Dropbox's history from conception through mid-2010, when founder/CEO Drew Houston must make strategic decisions about new product features, how to target enterprise customers, and whether to pursue distribution deals with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
out the whole idea. The other thing about Japanese organization that needs change is the internal processes by which decisions are made. The Japanese company structure is anti-risk. It is much safer to do something that other companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
regulatory requirements, and some existing taxi booking vendors feel threatened by SaferTaxi's efforts to enter the market. As SaferTaxi attempts to satisfy these diverse constituents, international competition looms. What should... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of their people with marketplace opportunity. These CEOs spent a great deal of time crystallizing their values and purpose and how strategy could be defined in a way that integrated strategy with values. In this way the animating beliefs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Partners: Evidence from China Authors:Crystal X. Jiang, Roy Y.J. Chua, Masaaki Kotabe, and Janet Y. Murray Publication:Journal of International Business Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate trust relationships between senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars. Bower and Gilbert recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
international competition. That was a sign that the US was not doing well in businesses that have to compete internationally. The data also showed what many had known—that wages started stagnating well over a decade ago. The participation... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
ambitious, alumni-led space program gets off the ground An Alumni Club for the Cosmos But sending a rocket into space and landing it back on Earth wasn’t just an important internal milestone for Blue Origin or a memorable life experience... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
organizational differences could account for about 16% of international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
arising in clusters, including knowledge, skills, and input-output linkages. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Mastering the Intermediaries: Strategies for Dealing with the Likes of Google, Amazon, and Kayak By: Edelman, Benjamin G.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
all the hurdles other female founders may face in their own journey to the top. It’s about dealing with the way things are, even when you don’t like it, and being yourself, even when it seems like a drawback. Digital Goddess is a story... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
positions in youth soccer, as well as a land trust and a historic preservation commission in her western New Jersey community. "I gather there had been some internal controversy about accepting women, from little comments I heard here and... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
my long experience dealing with Soviet organizations, I knew that the way decisions were implemented and what actually happened depended more on the lowest echelon of the hierarchy than the top." In addition, Vlachoutsicos, in close... View Details