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- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
example of a non-high-tech company we study is H.E. Butt Grocery Company. This is a large, very successful privately held chain in southern Texas that has used technology to combat some of the threats of its competitors, including... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
never thought about water threats when enjoying Island #92 with his late grandfather, the Reverend Paul Cullens (Harvard College AB 1922, Harvard Divinity School, MA, 1925) and his father, the late William F. Murdoch (HBS MBA 1956). “I... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
success was larger for those that were culturally closer to native whites (i.e., Western and Northern Europeans). These patterns are consistent with a framework in which perceptions of racial threat among native whites lower the barriers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
time to establish, making the threat of price wars from competing retailers less credible. Uncertainties, Ambiguities, And Doubt The many advantages of loyalty programs have been well debated in the massive literature available on the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Ferguson's Formula By: Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson Abstract—When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: it hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years and faced a very real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
for this to happen. Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care system at... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United Africa Company in West... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
added: “I learned just how much “The Global South” sees a carbon price as a threat rather than an opportunity.” In fact, Jacobs said during the event, “We have failed to get the world to internalize the cost of carbon pollution. We... View Details
- Web
How Proxy Advisers Get Companies Talking to Shareholders | Working Knowledge
treatment,” driving up share prices by 2 to 3 percent for firms that fall below the 70 percent say-on-pay voting threshold. This suggests that investors anticipate and even welcome the threat of ISS monitoring and accountability, even if... View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
Mills says. “If small businesses can stay solvent, then we have a greater chance for a recovery after the virus threat subsides,” she says. The grim reality is sinking in. About 77 percent of small business owners say they’re “very... View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
may differ from that in the United States. About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer Based in the Boston area. [Image: Morsa Images] Related Reading The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
as a way to grow the industry. 3. Succession: Family agricultural businesses often face threats in the transition between generations, given the waning appeal of agriculture to younger generations. Thankfully for Koppert Cress, Baan has... View Details
- Web
How to onboard recently graduated MBAs - Recruiting
perspectives that can make onboarding more successful: In-person relationships are important In a post-pandemic world, a vast majority of jobs have become hybrid, if not entirely remote. This can pose a threat to office culture and a... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
battle must be fought on three fronts: preventing the spread among the general population, relieving hospitals running at full capacity wherever possible, and ensuring the availability of life-saving medicine in the face of threats to... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases but also posing a profound danger... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
tragedy of the commons at the global scale. Namely, Okada believed the accumulation of debris in near-Earth orbital space posed a serious threat to a vast array of critical satellites and, thereby, both the modern information economy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
government intervention persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2217627 Cases & Course MaterialsOcean Mist Farms Bell, David E., Jose B. Alvarez,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Policy - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing regulation of CO2 as a View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World War II and the 1970's there was little foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro