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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Abstract A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Cotting House | About

students, MBA fellowships, and faculty development each year. Cotting belonged to the fourth generation of a venerable New England family that figured prominently in the early development of Boston as a city and business center. Through... View Details
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Celebration Dean Srikant Datar: Welcome Address Video Recording + More Info – Less Info Hear an update on the Dean’s key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. Faculty Presentations Can Evidence-Based Information Shift... View Details
  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

corporate misconduct, pointing to cultural factors that might eventually result in scandal earlier than they would otherwise attract attention. In a business environment where ethics are paramount, the findings may offer managers and compliance departments a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • Web

the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

more beautiful and artistic a card or plaque is . . . the longer it will be kept in sight and talked about.” 12 Trade Catalogs National Markets 5 “In Printer’s Ink the Secret,” New York Times , 14 October... View Details
  • June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
  • Technical Note

Note on the Future of Commerce

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and Nathaniel Schwalb
In 2019, the retail and consumer product industries were undergoing a significant transformation. Over the past 50 years, what was once a highly fragmented industry began to consolidate, digitize, and increase convenience while lowering costs. The winning enterprises... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Transformation; Global Range; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Leading Change; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

From Retail to Real Estate

traded national chain and generations-long family enterprise—until it was acquired by Walmart for $1.6 billion in 2009. As reported in the Bloomberg story, “Harvard Grad Solves His Family’s $1.6 Billion Liquidity Problem,” Ibañez was... View Details
  • December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Olam International

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore
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  • Web

Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

is the time to capitalize on the growing momentum in women’s health innovation and investment to meet new and existing gaps in care. A renaissance in women’s health As early movers in the women’s health space - Stasia as a co-founder of... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

this task, he frequently got in trouble with extended family members for choosing formal schooling over the family trade and lost sight in his left eye due to a fight on the issue. Armed with the lessons from such stories, I learned to be... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

party and governmental elite and among a new class of entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, Chinese mercantilism is also widening the income gap in Western trading partners. For example, Wal-Mart, the largest and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives as well as from a detailed analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman Publication:Journal of Marketing Research 48 (October 2011) Abstract Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 1994
  • Book

The Making of Global Enterprises

By: G. Jones
This volume presents new insights on the history of international business. Two main themes are addressed: how and when has global business developed over the last century? and what has been its impact on host economies? The volume includes a pioneering study by Mira... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business Subsidiaries; Economy; Trade; Globalized Firms and Management; Information Technology
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  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Experimentation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—The fundamental uncertainty of new technologies at their earliest stages implies that it is virtually impossible to know the true potential of a venture without learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Brice Cutrer Jones

general who was a wine buff. In 1970, after nine years as a fighter pilot, he traded his cockpit for a seat at HBS, where he gained the credentials and expertise to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. Initially rebuffed by financiers on... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • Profile

Dilan Gomih

Working three-and-a-half years in foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch gave Dilan Gomih a special kind of confidence. “It's a high-pressure, risky environment; every mistake has consequences," she says. “If you can make it on the View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Entertainment/Media
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and drawing on the latest research in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has developed a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer