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- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
a shadow over the entire industry. The alleged problems include managers of fund families who allocate investments among individual funds in which they may have a management or ownership stake. This allows some investors (particularly hedge funds) to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John A. Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract We assess the effects of opening physical retail stores on direct-to-consumer channel sales. Our data come from a leading U.S. retailer which opened four View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
alienated from the organization and may leave. The lack of policies to support employees' personal lives in this new model, such as high-quality on-site day care, also has negative consequences. Remote workers who may have been willing to... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
of Business Administration at HBS. “In the process, they jump-start investing in areas that might be important for the environment.” They examine the phenomenon in a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Financing the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
proponent of product life cycle theory, the late Raymond Vernon, disavowed it on the grounds that developing countries no longer remained focused on old, low-tech products. Traditional trading companies may have declined along with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
Companies often use rigorous R&D processes to guide new product development, but are much less scientific when it comes to creating services. Not Bank of America, which has turned Atlanta-area branches into consumer laboratories.... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and launching the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), a project driven by the missionary idealism of the time. Lodge solicited support from... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
For many multinational firms doing business in unfamiliar countries, it made sense to create joint ventures with local firms. After all, that local knowledge of customs, suppliers, and markets could save the newcomer months—maybe even years—of riding a painful learning... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
traded the rights to Rudy Gay along with another Rockets fan favorite, Stromile Swift, to the Memphis Grizzlies for Shane Battier. Jeers of frustration rang from the Rockets fans. How could the Rockets trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
paper explores the effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
competition, which puts pressure on policymakers to improve institutions; information, which provides necessary knowledge to citizens that can help them push for improved governance; trade in institutions, which allows effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
impact of stronger intellectual property rights was reaching a boiling point as the World Trade Organization included the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in its charter. Opponents of stronger IPR were... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
serves as a rationale for global brands to charge premiums. Global brands "are expensive, but the price is reasonable when you think of the quality," pointed out a Thai participant. Consumers also believe that transnational companies compete by trying to... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
fixture from one sheet of metal and his peers respect his craftsmanship, then he has nothing to be ashamed of; quite the contrary. Moreover, a gradual shift towards computer-aided design made these craftsmen less relevant to the design and manufacture of View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
The programs reduce some pollution, or get rid of some waste, but they require a new allocation of money every year.” And when times get tight, that allocation is often first on the chopping block. In short, “Those top-down point... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
sales each year? Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently wrote a case on Apple Pay and the company’s ambitions of convincing consumers to trade in their real wallets in... View Details