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- 02 Sep 2021
- News
The Balance of Power Between Employees and Employers
- November 1995
- Case
The Benetton Group
By: James L. Heskett
The management of the Benetton Group includes senior executives advocating two different strategies: 1) expanding manufacturing to develop economies in order to grow Benetton's sales in those markets, and/or, 2)find ways to provide additional support to retailers, some... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Strategy; Global Strategy; Sales; Growth and Development; Distribution; Distribution Channels
Heskett, James L. "The Benetton Group." Harvard Business School Case 396-177, November 1995.
- 04 Nov 2012
- News
A Capitalist's Dilemma, Whoever Wins on Tuesday
- 05 May 2021
- News
Crisis Could Be the Mother of Reinvention for Business Schools
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem Solving
The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this potential, we initiated a crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Models; Crowdsourcing; Generative Ai; Creative Problem-solving; Organizational Search; AI-in-the-loop; Prompt Engineering; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention
Boussioux, Léonard, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic, and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem Solving." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-005, July 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- January 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Background Note
Note on Corporate Strategy
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Introduces students to the study of corporate strategy. Focuses on questions of scope and ownership. Examines both horizontal and vertical integration. Underscores the point that economies of scope, or the existence of relationship-specific investments, are... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Contracts; Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Note on Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-449, January 2005. (Revised February 2006.)
- 09 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Video: Thinking Secondhand First
CEO and co-founder of thredUP, James Reinhart (MBA/MPA-ID 2009) is disrupting the retail industry out of the mission to keep clothing out of landfills. Reinhart thought of his secondhand clothing business while at HBS and has since built a colossal logistics and supply... View Details
- Video
Aroon Purie
Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India Today, explains the opening of the Indian economy and suggests that the major drivers of economic growth have not been government policies but rather due to a series of revolutions in the IT industry, the auto... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- News
Doing Well While Doing Good
- 2018
- Chapter
The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance
By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details
Collis, David J., Bharat Anand, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance." Chap. 15 in Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 2011
- Chapter
An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
By: Diego A. Comin
Why was the 1990s a lost decade for Japan? How is it possible that the Japanese economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Japan
Comin, Diego A. "An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s." In Japan's Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Koichi Hamada, Anil Kashyap, and David Weinstein. MIT Press, 2011.
- March 2021 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70
By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) turned seventy-years-old and became the longest active authoritarian regime in recent history. By then, China was the world’s second largest economy by GDP (after the United States), and a high-technology industrial... View Details
Keywords: Party-state; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Society; International Relations; China
Rithmire, Meg, and Courtney Han. "Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70." Harvard Business School Case 721-040, March 2021. (Revised December 2023.)
- November 2001 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Intel Corporation: 1997-2000
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Michael G. Rukstad
Describes Intel's diversification strategy initiated in 1998 by CEO Craig Barrett. Initially, Barrett's strategy worked well, as market value reached $510 billion in September 2000. Just three months later, however, investor pessimism over a slowing economy and recent... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Investment; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Valuation; Technology Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Michael G. Rukstad. "Intel Corporation: 1997-2000." Harvard Business School Case 702-420, November 2001. (Revised February 2010.)
- 15 Oct 2012
- News
What business should do to restore competitiveness
- 29 Apr 2020
- News
What Makes an Office Building “Healthy”
- 07 May 2014
- News
Three ways to reignite U.S. job creation
- 24 Sep 2013
- News