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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
economist E.R.A. Seligman supported RPM as a legitimate tactic to protect small businesspeople and enhance non-price competition. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Petrobras in Ecuador (A)
By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Taxation; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil; Ecuador
Musacchio, Aldo, Lena G. Goldberg, and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Petrobras in Ecuador (A)." Harvard Business School Case 309-107, April 2009. (Revised August 2009.)
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
partners. Q: What changes in the expansion tactics of multinationals do you foresee in the next three to five years? A: The increased pressure on existing joint ventures within these networks reflects a greater pressure to rationalize... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
market. Advertising is one way, but consumers may not be paying attention. Price partitioning can then become a key tactical element to re-engage consumer attention at the point-of-purchase. View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
students interested in investing careers. On a tactical level, we plan to achieve this in several ways: Regular events with HBS Black investment alum to facilitate career advancement and mentorship for current students Creating... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
efforts. Beyond the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), these included 90 percent guarantees on SBA-backed loans, a tactic first deployed by Mills during the Great Recession. “Early-stage cash infusions have been critical,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written decades ago, these sabotage View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
and to Tactics Published: November 24, 2009 Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, or technological change, just to mention a few, are profoundly changing the competitive game. Scholars and practitioners agree that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Casey Gerald
businesses both tactically and strategically, the goal is to have an impact by taking the learning from inside the hallowed halls of business schools out to those who could really use the guidance and insight. Getting funding for this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that company could have learned that tactic from Stalin. That’s how Stalin maintained fear in the Soviet Union. He wouldn’t just shoot his opponents; he’d shoot people randomly. The whole point of employer responses to workers’ efforts to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
family — they all have the same last name, different first names. There’s a bit of an “insider” appeal when people understand the connection. It becomes a badge of honor to list the different properties where they’ve stayed. But how do you get guests to stay the first... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
safe but sacrificing the tax partners involved in the shelter sales. Further, the case describes the government's prosecution of former KPMG tax partners and asks students to determine whether prosecutorial tactics during the government's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
profit on these branded infant socks Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co. faces financial distress. In a generally bleak North American textile environment, Nichol ponders the most promising negotiating strategy and tactics to rescue this product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
pricing is viewed as a tactical issue where the questions are "can we sell more units if we cut price 10 percent," and "if we raise price 10 percent, will the customer notice?" This doesn't deal with the core issue.... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
the media if the board didn't intervene. While it was clear who we could turn to for legal advice, and we had our own business sense to apply to the strategic and tactical implications of the situation, we also had to address matters that... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Activism in Sovereign Debt: "Vulture" Tactics or Market Backbone Harvard Business School Case 706-057 The role of distressed debt funds, also known as "vulture funds," in sovereign debt restructuring was a hotly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
executive wanted to take on the opioid crisis. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Jim, your organization, the Georgia Prevention Project, the name of it says it all. Getting people who are addicted to drugs to stop taking them is really difficult. And using scare View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In March 2020, Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal were in the midst of preparing the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup, Juno. Both current MBA students at Harvard Business School, the duo founded Juno in 2018 to leverage student bargaining power... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Kathleen L. McGinn, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Case 921-032, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
more questions about the outcome. Alibaba, for example, set out a few years ago to test whether coupons nudged shoppers to buy items they had left in their digital carts. Executives found that these incentives didn’t boost sales, but rather than find out what View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost