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- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
new, Kerr says. Phoenicians served as the middlemen for trade across the Mediterranean region, for instance, and Europeans built nation-spanning operations as they explored and colonized, exploiting valuable resources along the way.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
crisis is just as crucial as the response.” Over 60 percent of tech outages result in at least $100,000 in total losses, and 15 percent cost upward of $1 million, according to the Uptime Institute, a technology trade group. In severe... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 118-061 The Whistleblower at International Game Technology Robert Mayhem, a senior manager at International Game Technology, had filed a whistleblower report with the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
brain data to play a key role in future research on consumer choice. (In a recent HBS industry background note on neuromarketing, she discusses the techniques that have helped researchers decode secrets such as why people love... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
own activities many functions that were formerly the province of marketing," says Professor Alvin J. Silk, unit cochair. "Marketing is indeed experiencing a watershed," adds Silk's colleague and the unit's other cochair, Professor John A. Quelch. He View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
transpires, she argued, not due to the govern- ment's desire to control, but the market's own need for stability. Spar's research on this topic includes the maritime trading boom of the 17th century and the development of the telegraph,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
to the United States. Thanks to the Harfs’ efforts, DKMS has facilitated some 26,000 transplants and now has over 2.8 million registered bone marrow donors. Seth Klarman, MBA 1982 President, The Baupost Group, LLC At his desk on the View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
shared transaction costs among its multiple sides. Using a variety of illustrations, the framework is then used to formulate general principles driving MSP design and expansion strategies: choosing the relevant platform "sides," deciding which fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110048-PDF-ENG The U.S. Life Insurance Industry Robert C. Pozen and McCall MerchantHarvard Business School Note 310-091 This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
Dates: Arrive, Tuesday, January 6; Depart Friday, January 16, 2026 Course Fee: $3,500 (see note on financial aid) Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation. Financial aid is available in the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several different enforcement measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
behavior and explore how they make a negotiator particularly vulnerable to ethical fading, resulting in subsequent unethical behavior. We discuss several opportunities for future research in the negotiation discipline and other disciplines that draw on motivated social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show that the extent to which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a good laboratory for studying... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
countries, but by firms realizing a higher spread (i.e., a greater difference in operating performance and borrowing cost) when more domestic credit is available. Also, we find that firms partially substitute trade credit for financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne