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- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
reportedly linked to job-related misery. In a landmark ruling in 2019—the first of its kind—a French court found that a number of executives at France Télécom had fostered an environment of institutional harassment in the ruthless means... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen Abstract— We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
these stores had women store managers. Grocery stores offer fertile ground for research overall: The US grocery industry employed more than 4 million workers in 2019, and the retail trades employed more than 15 percent of the country’s... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
inside The future of the restaurant industry is especially of concern to us. We collectively share 35 years of restaurant and food industry experience, navigating our way through as waitstaff and bartenders, as managers and senior leaders of restaurant groups and the... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
offerings of dot-coms. Industry leaders have compromised their existing competitive advantages by entering market segments to which they bring little that is distinctive. Merrill Lynch's move to imitate the low-cost on-line offerings of its View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
global history as a thriving research field, one in which economic issues play a central role. Flows of capital, labor, and science linked developments across oceans; trade bound national economies to one... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
sources and gather new perspectives." Bennett and Lemoine recommend reaching out “to partners, customers, researchers, trade groups, and perhaps even competitors” in times of uncertainty, in order to understand the impact of this... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the EU sugar policies. This case analyzes what this decision will mean to world food policies, especially those of the EU and the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
knowingly: Money can’t buy you a happy ride. But looking at the statistics more closely reveals a more nuanced reality. The vehicles traded in are often baseline models of those prestige brands, favored more by aspirational buyers than... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
percent between 1990 and 2000. (We confirmed our findings in the five years following the study period.) Both companies' performance was directly linked to whether or not they adhered to the 4+2 formula. In the strategy practice, for... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
and services that supported sales managers, including trade journals and popular magazines about salesmen and sales management. The creation of methods of sales management also opened up new branches of academic inquiry, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
A favorite topic of historians and palindrome fans alike, the Panama Canal has perpetually changed the international trade business. In their new book, The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
strategy. It argues that the focus of debate now needs to be on the actual policies that can increase competitiveness rather than exports per se. 2. Policies to improve export competitiveness: Critical issues The notion that exports and View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
film, such as whether to open a movie in a large number of theaters, whether to use television advertising to promote the film, and whether to avoid a competitive, high-season opening weekend may impact its market success as well. However, most of these key factors are... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
nurturing an influential internal champion on the other side who would truly benefit from added quality and service. The supplier might induce such an advocate to persuade the agent on her behalf, directly or via links to senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Internet search, Starbucks and coffee, YouTube and video sharing,” McDonald says. “In some cases, the names of these companies are so inextricably linked to the actual product category itself that it becomes like a verb. We ‘Google’ it.”... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
States will reassert itself. Likewise, the trade links among British Commonwealth countries will be revitalized. Look for the UK to also accelerate its expanding business links... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch