Filter Results:
(1,117)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,117)
- News (171)
- Research (831)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (417)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,117)
- News (171)
- Research (831)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (417)
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
made-in-Japan products and concepts to Godiva’s other markets. How could Chouchan keep the momentum and sustain Godiva Japan’s top-line and bottom-line growth going forward? Would he be able to keep the balance between aspirational and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Hong Kong to Wuxi, China to attend the first ever meeting of China Resources Microelectronic's (CRM) newly established Office of Strategy Management. The team had high hopes for this meeting as CRM was not only one of CRC's most strategically important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
agreements. Set in early 2007, nearly two years after significant modifications in these systems and procedures. Stryker has compiled a remarkable track record of consistently high growth in profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
worker ownership. Worker Ownership and Profit Sharing Steward, Purpose, and Trust Ownership Private Equity Family Ownership Shareholder Ownership Early-Stage Ventures Resources How does ownership shape access to and allocation of the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive effect on its rival's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
boots. Creating variations of these core products, along with expansion into apparel, had sustained Timberland's business for more than 30 years. Timberland's growth in the past six years was due to increased international sales and new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social capital. Profit from the Core: View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study the compatibility decisions of two competing platforms that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
competition can impede the reputational mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
goal. When you consider that your job-perhaps even your industry-may disappear, you have no choice but to take control. Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
problems. And even though the problems have gotten worse, few companies have stepped up to address them. We had studied a number of firms that had successfully developed profitable businesses that had mitigating effects. But far too few.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
exploit Chinese offshore deposits. In 2010 he is trying to decide how to drive further growth in a company that has grown 556 times in less than 30 years, with profits grown 2,600 times. He believes that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
during financial crises because they are more dependent on bank capital to fund their growth and operations. They feel the swings up and down more acutely due to their reliance on the free flow of bank credit, according to a 1994 study by... View Details
- Web
Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
Bienvenido | Bem-vindo! Latin America has experienced remarkable economic growth in recent decades. Many of its key economies have been transformed, and numerous companies have become global industry leaders. Despite this significant... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
can be low growth and declining margins. The key challenge in aligning marketing activities with corporate strategy is to develop a set of metrics to be used by top executives and the board that measure the impact of marketing activities... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
expands Patagonia’s business in the rapidly growing and increasingly profitable used-clothing market, which can cut the carbon, waste, and water footprint of a purchase by 82 percent. “Imagine if used Patagonia products become the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
million company." He immediately began to shake things up. While Mutti did well in the retail arena with its tomato paste, the market was small and getting smaller since fewer Italians were cooking from scratch. Other tomato processing companies weren't faring well.... View Details