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- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
that women could lead in war and must enjoy equal rights. In helping to cement the territorial defeat of ISIS, whose savagery toward women astounded the world, these women played a central role in neutralizing the threat the group posed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
threat of such legal action. Forecasters' reliance on science and statistics as methods for accessing the future aligns their story with conventional narratives of modernity. The German sociologist Max Weber, for instance, argued that a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
theatrical for some people. But odd as it may seem, their concerns were not very different from the concerns we heard when we talked to business leaders around the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
regulatory costs for new entrants. However, given the threat from worldwide CO2 emissions and the demanding cost thresholds necessary to beat coal in China and India, the panel's recommendations are not being pursued with nearly enough... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
of many managers facing similar threats. In the case of Firestone, Sull writes, it just dug itself into an even deeper hole. Its reaction did not make the company better able to fend off the threat of radial technology; quite the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
vertical portals have a profound effect on traditional distribution networks, but because many vertical portals will have production capabilities, they may also pose a threat to specialty producers that choose to downplay the significance... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
supply chains, installing ERP (enterprise resource planning systems, as exemplified by SAP), and worrying about Y2K. The threat posed to our economy by Japan and Germany had eased, the stock market was going crazy, and everybody was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2019 Address | About
than it has in the past. Around the globe, people are wrestling with growing inequality, increasing divisiveness, and the rising threat of systemic challenges such as climate change. They are living with the terrifying insecurity that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to intransigence and denial. Once-incipient threats are now full-blown, and combined with newly emerging dangers, options and solutions have narrowed. For the contemporary reader, there is between the lines of Energy Future a haunting... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
of: how do these groups work, what deals do they look at, and ultimately do they make a difference for the companies they fund? Q: Is crowdfunding a threat to more traditional notions of venture capital? A: There have been a lot of... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
improved Web surfing, and RFID applications, such as the ability to hold your phone up against a product and download information about it. Asked by an audience member about the threat viruses pose to cell phone networks, panelists agreed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
leaders in a rapidly changing world in which natural resources are increasingly scarce and the threat of climate change is ever more urgent. If you’re a social entrepreneur inspired by these stories of innovation, and also have the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
urbanization, and business disruption represent both a major opportunity and a threat in the global economy. Although individuals and organizations are aware that the world is changing exponentially, most are ill-equipped to face this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
examples of government actions that, however well intentioned, blocked firms for many years from taking actions that would have benefited them and society as a whole. Even if the antitrust threat dissipates, there is a broader lesson... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
one of the three most important issues facing managers and directors in 2006. He commented that, "Activist shareholders, led by hedge funds which today have aggregate assets of more than one trillion dollars and armed with the threat... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
expanded its offering to cover a broad spectrum of Internet and mobile security products. In 2012 the company launched its own Internet search engine called So.com. By August 2013, So.com captured 18% PC market share and had posed a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111084-PDF-ENG Hindustan Unilever's 'Pureit' Water Purifier V. Kasturi Rangan and Mona SrivastavaHarvard Business School Case 511-067 The case asks students to formulate a strategy to respond to various competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Business School Case 808-025 Explores the opportunities and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace