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- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
economist and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence H. Summers, University of Michigan Professor Gerald Davis, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at HBS. In her presentation, Kanter... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
Kids Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 811-042 In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles "Tex" Thornton, a U.S. Air... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Why JPMorgan Chase Is Investing Millions in Detroit
- July 24, 2013
- Article
Detroit Has Filed For Bankruptcy. Now What? The Long View
By: Eric D. Werker and Benjamin Kennedy
Werker, Eric D., and Benjamin Kennedy. "Detroit Has Filed For Bankruptcy. Now What? The Long View." Forbes.com (July 24, 2013).
- April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)
By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
Farronato, Chiara, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb, and Julia Kelley. "StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 621-107, April 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
led to cuts in basic public services, declines in population, and significant urban blight. The State of Michigan appointed an emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to lead the city though the restructuring process. In March 2014, Orr and his... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University of View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from... View Details
- February 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Amway Japan Limited
In April 1997, the president of Amway Japan (AJL, Tokyo, Japan), pondered how to reverse the first performance decline the company has experienced since entering the Japanese direct selling market in 1979. Established as the tenth overseas subsidiary of Amway Corp. of... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Business Subsidiaries; Distribution Channels; Customer Satisfaction; Consumer Products Industry; Michigan; Tokyo
Arnold, David J., John A. Quelch, Yoshinori Fujikawa, and Patrick Reinmoller. "Amway Japan Limited." Harvard Business School Case 598-029, February 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
principles that encourage innovating for sustainability throughout the company? A further challenge facing the company is that it was rapidly globalizing with a large portion of its workforce outside its Midland, Michigan headquarters,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
is the need to consider how social spending changes as industries consolidate and mergers change the locations of major corporate headquarters. Q: What are your next research steps in this line of work? A: Building on this paper, Gerald Davis from View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Entrepreneurs must overcome many barriers to get discoveries to market, but academic researchers face an additional one they might not realize: themselves. Academics tend to develop a myopic focus on the unique expertise they spend their lives developing, but that... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Tesla-SolarCity No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-027 University of Michigan Men's Basketball: A Series of Fortunate Events? No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the financial analysts, and the commercialization of academic knowledge. Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment Authors:Matt Marx, Deborah Strumsky, and Lee Fleming Abstract Several scholars... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
obtain a master's degree from the Michigan Technological University. Thirty-two years later, a young Indian in Bangalore, Saumil Majmudar, started a small company. Those two events are connected by a trail of knowledge accumulation and... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Faulkner Robert and Susan Shell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming Abstract Chapter excerpt: "Most American occupations of foreign countries have been of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
batteries. No American battery company comes close to CATL. Under intense political pressure, the project has been delayed and scaled back. A Michigan plant was set to create 2,500 jobs. Ford was to retain 100 percent ownership in a... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls