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- March 1987 (Revised April 1987)
- Background Note
Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins
Explains the differences between commodities and specialties and defines four different types of specialty products. The analysis is customer oriented. Special attention is given to the distinctions between functions (product- ) and relationship (vendor-oriented)... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities
Shapiro, Benson P. "Specialties vs. Commodities: The Battle for Profit Margins." Harvard Business School Background Note 587-120, March 1987. (Revised April 1987.)
- Web
Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
are part of, and function as teams rather than free agents. Focus on the full cycle of care. Integrate care with both upstream and downstream entities to ensure good patient... View Details
- Web
Operational Effectiveness vs. Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
standing still. Operational Effectiveness: Too Much of a Good Thing? Total quality management. Benchmarking. Time-based competition. Reengineering. Change management. The quest for productivity, quality, and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 02–03 Dec 2022
- HBS Alumni Events
D^3 Catalyst: No Code Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Do you want to delve into Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, but you feel overwhelmed and intimidated? Do you want to leverage the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence without writing any code? Do you want to leverage Machine Learning and... View Details
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Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
defining the appropriate portfolio of businesses - creating a distinctive strategy for each business, and an effective planning process Creating an effective relationship with the board - understanding the evolving role of the board View Details
- December 2015
- Article
Emotion and the Art of Negotiation: How to Use Your Feelings to Your Advantage
Negotiations can be fraught with emotion, but it's only recently that researchers have examined how particular feelings influence what happens during deal making. Here the author shares some key findings and advice. Anxiety leads to poor outcomes. You will be less... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood. "Emotion and the Art of Negotiation: How to Use Your Feelings to Your Advantage." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 12 (December 2015): 56–64.
- 2019
- Chapter
From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and Asia, c. 1850–1960, edited by Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, 161–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Final presentations and final farewells
our internships and to provide honest feedback and suggestions. Sephora, and luxury goods in general are not areas where we will see the demand... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
It takes more courage, and by the way, everyone can't do it.—Ed Kania Firms do need to focus more than ever on industries they are good at, said Kevin Jacques, senior associate of Sevin Rosen Funds.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Contrarian and Proud of It
“That concern creates opportunity.” Rogers particularly likes stocks with high dividends and low price-earnings ratios. A patient investor, he typically holds on to stocks for three to six years. Lately, he has branched out to add growth... View Details
- 21 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
used for. So I decided to throw a summit on Necker Island and got a bunch of people together so they could communicate in person. And I divided up a bunch of really cool developers View Details
- 2013
- Article
Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Do multinational corporations (MNCs) have a responsibility to address unjust conditions—not simply by refraining from contributing to injustice, but also by actively working to bring about a just state of affairs? This paper examines whether this question can be... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Corporations; Global Justice; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Responsibility; Human Needs; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Multinational Corporations, Global Justice and Corporate Responsibility: A Question of Purpose." Notizie di Politeia 29, no. 111 (2013).
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
We investigate the role played by institutional development in the prevalence and value of family firms, while controlling for the potential effect of cultural norms. China provides a good research lab since it combines great heterogeneity in institutional development... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Data and Data Sets; Law; Management; Organizational Culture; Research; Value; China
Amit, Raphael, Yuan Ding, Belen Villalonga, and Hua Zhang. "The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-103, May 2010.
- Article
The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs
By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
The debate in economic policymaking about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long centered on manufacturing versus services. The predominant view is that manufacturing drives innovation, wages, and growth, and that services provide less innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Supply Chain; Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions
Delgado, Mercedes, and Karen G. Mills. "The Supply Chain Economy: New Policies to Drive Innovation and Jobs." Economía Industrial, no. 421 (December 2021).
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World, and his views on subjects ranging from whether globalism has been a force for View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
enough" plan that you come up with on Tuesday and you're making it even better by bringing in perspectives that you haven't invited to the table yet. Thursday you tell a good story. View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class... View Details