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- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2017
- Working Paper
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24035, November 2017.
- January 2015
- Case
Burberry in 2014
By: Anita Elberse
In February 2014, Burberry's chief executive officer Angela Ahrendts is preparing to hand the reins of the English luxury fashion company to chief creative officer Christopher Bailey. Under their partnership, in place since 2006, Burberry's revenues have tripled to... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Luxury; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Manufacturing Industry; Fashion Industry; Great Britain
Elberse, Anita. "Burberry in 2014." Harvard Business School Case 515-054, January 2015.
- April 1999 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
R&B Falcon
R&B Falcon is the world's leading offshore drilling contractor. Amid surging exploration budgets and increasing deepwater drilling activity, the company makes huge investments in several new state-of-the art $300 million ultra-deep-water drilling rigs. As day rates and... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Change Management; Industry Growth; Mining; Product Marketing; Mining Industry
Corts, Kenneth S. "R&B Falcon." Harvard Business School Case 799-110, April 1999. (Revised August 1999.)
- January 1988 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)
By: David A. Garvin
Describes a comprehensive manufacturing strategy designed to reduce substantially the cycle time of orders (i.e. the time between the placement of an order by a customer and its delivery to the customer). To launch the strategy Digital has adopted manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Information; Time Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Garvin, David A. "Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)." Harvard Business School Case 688-059, January 1988. (Revised January 1997.)
- September 1984 (Revised February 1989)
- Case
Benetton (A)
By: James L. Heskett
The world's largest manufacturer of woolen outerwear garments seeks to extend its retailing network to the United States from its base in Europe. A number of issues concerning marketing, manufacturing, and logistics strategy are raised by the proposed move along with... View Details
Keywords: Logistics; Brands and Branding; Networks; Production; Marketing Strategy; Globalization; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Europe
Heskett, James L. "Benetton (A)." Harvard Business School Case 685-014, September 1984. (Revised February 1989.)
- 31 May 2023
- News
How to Take Better Breaks at Work
- May 2006 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Dan Heath
Jeremy Moon, CEO of Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding U.S. and European markets vs. broadening his attack to include China. If he enters China, should he continue his... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Global Strategy; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; China; United States; Europe
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Dan Heath. "Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision." Harvard Business School Case 806-195, May 2006. (Revised June 2006.)
- May 2004
- Background Note
56K Modem Battle
By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois
Yoffie, David B., and Deborah Freier. "56K Modem Battle." Harvard Business School Background Note 704-501, May 2004.
Norman O. Houston
Houston presided over Golden State's period of massive growth - expanding to several states, diversifying the company's product lines, and acquiring smaller competitors. Houston was considered a pioneer of black enterprise, having... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
The gender punishment gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers at the firm or local branch level. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in occupation (type of job, firm, market, or financial View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
With its usual flair and wit, this year’s HBS Show pitted the January and September cohorts against each other — think Jets, think Sharks — in a late March production of Up Side Story. The main characters, Tony and Maria, came from... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
significant advances in technology and productivity, was the pottery firm founded by Josiah Wedgwood in 1760—"the first example I can find," said Koehn, "of a company using a brand as a strategic tool to interest consumers in goods, distinguish their... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- Web
Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response The Collection The Medium The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the popular “fast fashion” model to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
which ran April 17–20 in Burden Auditorium. Since its first production in 1974, the event has showcased the dramatic, musical, and theatrical talent of HBS students. This year's performance was no exception. Titled Infernal Rate of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Looking to the Next Decade of Change: A Recap of the 10th Annual Retail & Luxury Goods Conference
On the evening of Saturday, February 22, 2014 and all day Sunday, February 23, 2014, the Retail & Luxury Goods Club hosted a record number of nearly 400 students and professionals from Harvard and the surrounding community for its tenth annual Retail and Luxury... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
A few years ago, Kenya Hunt, HBS MBA 2019, was working full-time on an offshore oil rig – two weeks on, two weeks off – when she realized that “by eight months in, I knew this wasn’t for me.” Her role really did not fit her particular engineering skill set, and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
The first year at Harvard business School gives you a breadth of courses to sink your teeth into. One of the real benefits of studying such a range of materials in the first year, is how easily I was able to apply my learnings while interning at Zalando, the leading... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management role at General Mills –... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail