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- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
actually doing this? Are they getting the information themselves? The press was actually generating the idea that there was an issue. That doesn't mean that they break into a company overnight and figure it out; but a lot of the evidence seems to show that they're out... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
content supplier into a disruptive platform? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/918413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-058 Investor Relations Practices at Edwards Lifesciences In January 2017, the senior... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600 information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bankruptcy are predictive of lower recovery rates, and that in such cases these creditors sell ahead of less informed suppliers and other creditors. This result is especially pronounced for more opaque distressed firms, when trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g., labor, capital, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
leveraging my experience of building Nike’s inaugural Global Supplier Diversity program, seeking to expand my impact to help other organizations conduct and sustain meaningful business relationships with the diverse communities they... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
value (with principles that also apply to governments and nonprofits). For example, rather than merely paying a higher, “fair-trade” price to coffee farmers for their beans, a shared-value approach would dig deeper and focus on improving growing techniques,... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures.... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
entrepreneurs and business experts can predict their subsequent commercialization. How Should We Pay for Health Care? (536) Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan argue that reimbursement for medical services through bundled payments is the only approach that aligns... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
traditional arms-length sourcing arrangements. At the time of the case, the company is considering a third approach to supplier relations that involves much closer cooperation and partnerships. The goal of this "third way"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
sales promotion. These substitutes compete directly with traditional media for advertisers' marketing dollars. Similarly, mergers between media providers and content suppliers such as news and entertainment programming also influence... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Capital and Sangetsu Corporation Japan’s corporate culture has traditionally prioritized the interests of stakeholders such as employees and suppliers over those of shareholders. After a decades-long economic slump, Japan’s government has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
in the world, wondered how to work more closely with its key suppliers-Swatch Group, Richemont Group, LVMH Group, and Rolex Group-to maintain strong growth in the Greater China region. Specifically, how could Hengdeli manage the relationship with these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
in the United States, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has made on-time payment to small businesses a campaign promise, pledging, among other things, to build on the success of QuickPay to ensure federal contractors pay their View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
for properties in Lagos’s well-to-do neighborhoods, but even there the power grid is so unreliable that tenants need to supply their own generators. Local suppliers were limited, so Dozie and his brother had furniture made to order and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products—and discusses New Balance's operations decisions to support that strategy. These include significant use of domestic manufacturing at a time when nearly all other competitors sourced finished shoes from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
plastic seemed like a godsend: perhaps Gotham Greens could create packaging from plastic that degraded naturally and replenished the soil. As team members learned more about this option, however, they concluded that compostable plastic wasn’t as sustainable as it... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati