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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
going to depreciate tomorrow or next week or even next month. But over time, you expect it to depreciate. So if you're a business manager, you probably want to be fairly well hedged against this possibility, either by making use of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
Merrill Lynch can in part be explained by the pursuit of profits for their own sake. HCHP firms, by contrast, grow by using their distinctive capabilities to move into adjacent markets, products and services, and geographies. Risk: HCHP... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2022
- Book
Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries
sought to use communist ties, real or imagined, to tar and discredit their political opponents. The result was a sort of siloization of the Left. Communists were separated from other types of Marxists, as well as democratic socialists,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2024
- Supplement
DRSi (B)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced... View Details
Abstract: In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; Washington (state, US); United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. " DRSi (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-718, May 2024.
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
5,000 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide. Deshpandé notes that in a world where the majority of yoga teachers were just scraping by Bikram succeeded through strategic use of branding and legal protections. Bikram also gained an edge by... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
data, including the export profile. While the export-oriented growth model (or frameworks such as the Washington consensus) provides a recipe to be used pretty much the same way across different countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
features another common sales incentive--a "president's club" membership for those employees who sell more software than 90 percent of their peers in a given year. The software firm uses a "commission accelerator" program over the course... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment... View Details
- 2021
- Case
Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city $275 per employee per year. The tax money would then be used to combat homelessness in Seattle. In response,... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; City; Welfare; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice." William Davidson Institute Case 3-330-494, 2021.
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
captured the spirit of respondents when she said, “For Harvard Business School to give up on the case method would be a step backward, not forward.” Reminding us that the method was adapted from teaching techniques practiced at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
to launch the first private mission to land on the moon, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will use a lander to study the moon’s magnetic field. “One could imagine a trip like this becoming not... View Details
- May 2024
- Supplement
DRSi (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced architectural plans and drawings. Fuller planned to use her first year of ownership to learn the business and to run it in much the same way as the seller.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; United States; Washington (state, US)
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. " DRSi (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-717, May 2024.
- November 2021 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place
By: Paul M. Healy, Debora L. Spar and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as... View Details
Keywords: Business Ethics; Homelessness; Business And Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Urban Development; Society; Information Technology; Ethics; Technology Industry; Seattle; United States; North America
Healy, Paul M., Debora L. Spar, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place." Harvard Business School Case 122-017, November 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C reveal effects of indirect agency under conditions favoring intuitive judgment, but not reflective judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
mobility and absence of ties to land, to slave society, or loyalty to any particular state, worked to their advantage. No one had written about that before. So my editors and I agreed that this should be a separate book. Q: Albert... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
high. But when meeting customer demand is bad for society at large, then competition has a flip side," says Victor Bennett, an assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, who cowrote the paper with Lamar Pierce of View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding
By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn
This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Business Cycles; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Development; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle; Japan
Groysberg, Boris, and Tom Quinn. "Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding." Harvard Business School Case 424-047, July 2024.
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
providers, healthcare systems, and even countries. Similar value-based breast cancer care frameworks are also being pursued internationally. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50865 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne