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  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

that Ponsse maintained its important characteristics as it expanded its global sales and service network? Information on the global forest industry is included. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507002  ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Stolarz-Fantino argue that specific design features of our research mean that it cannot have policy implications and that researchers “need to consider profit maximization in menu design or studies are likely to suggest ill-informed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

don't hire armed guards to prevent the occasional nonbusiness use of copy machines, nor do you keep your company's cash in a filing cabinet. You protect each corporate resource in proportion to its value. The same principle applies to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

having to shift around old inventory, and finance would be able to free up capital that had been tied up in inventory. Mattel Canada used collective conversations so effectively that it transformed its division from Mattel's least View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

their companies' CRM initiatives had failed to deliver profitable growth and had damaged long-term customer relationships. Tempting as it may be to point the finger at your CRM technology, that won't help you reverse these worrisome... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel, that have been identified as "green giants," and traces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

Publication:,em>Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011) Abstract The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2020
  • News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

recently about the role they can play in changing society. But I know this is a topic you've been engaged in for a long time. What first sparked your interest in it? Lisa Lewin: I think it was probably my family. My father was a corporate... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to commercial clients made the difference. As Centennial One grew through... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article ©... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

small businesses, historically engines of opportunity for millions of Americans, are the most pessimistic of all businesses in their view of the United States’ trajectory. Isn’t the U.S. economy on an upward trajectory as it recovers from the Great Recession? View Details
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Five Bright Ideas

students "get it." Bistany decries four "myths" in education: The smaller the class size, the better (when what matters is the right structure for teaching and assessing a concept effectively); The profit motive will undermine educational... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

groups, but not large blocks. If a large corporate wishes to pursue such a goal, it is more prudent to execute it with a small team.” In a related comment, Ashok Jainn stated, “Age is no bar Super stretch goals, when they’re not handed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

(i.e., the profit obtained during liquidations stated as a percentage of the cost value of liquidated assets) by 2 to 7 percentage points in the cases we examined. The paper also identifies ways in which current practice in store... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Strategic Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Robert Goodwin

understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services