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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
forthcoming book Digital Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, John Deighton and coauthor Patrick Barwise of the London Business School identify three qualities that distinguish the Web from other mass... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
you'll find that very few actually wind up in the industrial sector, which had been the focus of the long-standing Business Policy course. When Kim Clark became Dean, he stressed that entrepreneurship—the pursuit of opportunity beyond the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
federal government reacted with the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires all projects licensed by the government to file an environmental impact statement. The Clean Air Act, a powerful law against air... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Gazprom (B): Energy and Strategy in a New Era Harvard Business School Case Supplement 709-009 President Putin publicly stated that Gazprom, the largest natural gas producer in the world, was a powerful political lever of the Russian state... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a reason to buy. State and local... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
rapidly-evolving space sector, he argues, society will have the opportunity to determine the proper roles for government and the private sector nearly from scratch. “The idea of leveraging the private sector and its efficiencies to help achieve public sector goals is a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Working PapersInstitutional Pressures and Environmental Strategies Authors: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper suggests how institutional theory can explain enduring differences in organizational strategies. We propose that differences in how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco discovers a problem with the View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
across the sands of the Sahara, it is formally located in Tunisia, or Algeria, or Libya, depending on to whom you talk or which way the winds are blowing. It is an ancient place, Partenia, a remnant of a world that hardly anyone can even... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
EU Commission President Juncker sees “the wind [ ] back in Europe's sails.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55046 Harvard Business School Case 518-034 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
have been touched by the powerful winds of change. Widespread recessions are not new, of course. The United States, like most other industrial countries, has been buffeted by business cycles in different... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
online financial services operation that will make today's local commercial bank a historical relic. The importance of operational efficiency is particularly apparent in the area of trading, where seconds count and system crashes are disastrous. "When Schwab goes down... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
these questions seem easy to answer. A CEO is the epitome of leadership. He or she exercises ultimate power and is responsible for making the most critical choices facing an organization. However, these questions get far more complicated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace