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- August 1993 (Revised April 1994)
- Case
Flanders of Springfield
Flanders is a catalog merchandiser. Various decisions on catalog distribution policy, ordering and inventory policy, and catalog format design are considered. This was a final examination, and serves as a review for a number of topics in the course. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Policy; Distribution; Product Design; Supply Chain; Mathematical Methods; Consumer Products Industry
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Flanders of Springfield." Harvard Business School Case 894-005, August 1993. (Revised April 1994.)
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to adopt more business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
make you feel less safe by making you conscious of just how much you are giving away? A new working paper finds that it’s more likely to be the latter. “Even if a privacy View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
distraction: We fiddle around the edges thinking we're making a real difference (and getting accolades), while the planet inexorably warms. The reality is that even if one company eliminates its carbon footprint entirely—as Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
improve. But we have a political system that's increasingly about today's news. This mismatch has probably gotten worse in the last 10 or 20 years. The politics of economic policy is never easy, but we used to be better at overcoming... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
The challenges of monetary policy are not understood or documented Even amongst economists you have debates about what makes sense. Here, if Ben Bernanke raised interest rates, nobody would argue about what... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
public-private partnership model that increases US economic growth and helps create access and opportunity for all Americans. Related reading: Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending. The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
But even if such adjustments were psychologically possible, an abrupt change could be dismissed as inauthentic. Hispanics, Muslims and women already know what the Trump brand thinks of them and might see any corrections in tone or policy... View Details
- July 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
General Motors U.S. Pension Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira and Helen Tung
In June 2003, General Motors Corp. (GM) successfully marketed the largest corporate debt offering in U.S. history, worth $17.6 billion. The offering included $13.6 billion worth of debt denominated in dollars, euros, and pounds and $4 billion dollars denominated in... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Bonds; Investment Return; Policy; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; United States
Viceira, Luis M., and Helen Tung. "General Motors U.S. Pension Funds." Harvard Business School Case 206-001, July 2005. (Revised December 2005.)
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
can be painfully slow and difficult—and the decade-long surge of refugees and asylum seekers has left staff members scrambling to make timely placements, Paulson says. The war in Ukraine, coupled with ongoing conflicts and instability in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
promote social equality. He pondered whether public policy could make a difference or whether the market and societal currents, responsible for these trends, were too strong for him and his government to try... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services. Health plans will eliminate their restrictive networks, allowing members to choose in a competitive (and regional or even national) marketplace the providers that offer the best value for their condition. Plans will help patients View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
things as you wish," Lerner says. Thus, the paper concludes, the only way to make structured pricing work is to enact a federal policy that mandates it—despite inevitable protestations from big firms... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
fence” that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan mentions—without provoking conflict or strangling economic development—requires walking a tightrope that the government is ill-equipped to do. Business expertise, especially in advanced technologies, is crucial to... View Details