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- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
under globally recognized brand names, including the private labels of mass merchants such as Walmart, Costco, and Target. Most of those profits accrued to the brands, rather than the Chinese suppliers. E-commerce and the gradual... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
even in the absence of property rights, SOEs may significantly improve performance, and document 42 Indian state-owned laboratories over 1993-2006—starting from a base of negligible U.S. patents—being granted more patents than all domestic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
Ostensibly, Shah was trying to refocus employees. New research from Harvard Business School Professor Joseph B. Fuller offers a different take. When workers feel tension between their work and private lives, they’re likely to quit or be... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
some implications for the future growth of the industry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804176 Blue River Capital Harvard Business School Case 708-448 Examines the strategy and experience of Indian View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
the road.” “That’s what I remember from growing up, this constant conflict and fight over hours,” recounts Stavros, a partner at private equity firm KKR, in a new series of Harvard Business School case studies that detail his radical... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory policies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
& Course MaterialsFinancial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity Harvard Business School Note 809-111 Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country's government and its relevant agencies to forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA '93), a colleague of Rivkin's at View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
bonds to relatively wealthy investors—became integrated in a quite novel way in the course of the 1960s. The rise of the so-called 'Eurobond' market was a major breakthrough in the history of European integration, but it was a largely spontaneous result of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
imagine growth platforms. Build partnerships. No organization can go it alone. The COVID-19 pandemic reminds leaders of how organizational success depends on the resiliency of their ecosystems—a public sector able to provide basic infrastructure and a View Details
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
services that they truly need by giving them an unbundled menu of options. 6. Monitor Trade Terms. Beware of powerful distributors paying you more slowly than they turn the inventory they buy from you. In an inflationary environment,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
their strategy for where they are going and how they will get there, they need to surround themselves with people who have their fingers on the pulse of the organization. Their advisers must closely monitor shifts in the competitive... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
entities. The company primarily serves government intelligence agencies, but has some private sector clients and is considering taking on more. The CEO, Christopher Ahlberg, is wrestling with several key decisions about where to take the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
reaching people on site and outside. For example, use of internal speakers and TV monitors to make announcements. A shooter on site, for example, triggers facility lockdown and police response but also rapid announcement that everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
low-skilled commercial roles. For some, this meant “going from a position of considerable autonomy and professional status to a situation in which they had to read a script from a headset, sell products over the phone, and ask permission to use the toilet,” the case... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
if you're not up to speed. So, being ready to quickly adjust to new rules is key. In the US, it's more about the private sector setting the pace. If your company can get ahead and help define the privacy rules, that puts you at a huge... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
behavior: (1) monitoring the work effectively (giving timely feedback and reacting to problems in the work with understanding and help); (2) providing socioemotional support (showing support for a team member's actions or decisions;... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace