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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
trying to find parking.” “About 30 percent of the traffic in most urban areas is caused by people just driving around trying to find parking.” — Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995), founder of INRIX transportation information firm Trending... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
organizations that really ends up with no trend line” “For decades, we’ve been in this cycle where an organization hires a consulting firm to help design and execute a restructuring, and then, as soon as they’re done, they start that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
technical expertise, said Kapoor. A sense of timing and a good marketing instinct are two qualities at a premium in today's market. "It's not about specialization," said Reiss. "It's about quickly figuring out new trends... View Details
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
salves to help relieve them. Brands were looking to reassert traditional American values like inclusion and the celebration of differences in the face of more negative recent trends like anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment. That... View Details
- Web
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
distinguish trends from fads, what drives their selection of menu items and how they manage their supply chain. Crisis Management. We’ll consider the critical issue of food safety and the crisis management implications when a foodborne... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
sales and cost trends that helped them weave an end-to-end picture of their business’s financial health? This future is appealing because it responds to the fundamental need of small business owners to be able to see and more clearly... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
services—lending in particular—in full force. This trend will be transformative. With the ability to aggregate and organize data and analyze it rigorously, lenders can have more predictive algorithms about who is creditworthy, and small... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
important to you, but I also know the future is very important to you. What do you see for The Mountaineers in the future? Vogl: One of the trends that we're seeing and climbing now is the rise in popularity of indoor climbing at climbing... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
well-known, newspapers are dying in the age of the Internet. As newspapers cut back on staff, one of the first things to go is the foreign bureau, which is expensive to maintain and whose reporting is deemed not as interesting to readers, nor as profitable, as coverage... View Details
- June 1993 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard O. Mason and Melinda Conrad
Provides an overview of the company's recent organizational changes followed by a discussion of the company's new sales promotion software, "Promotion Planner." The president of Frito-Lay's central division must decide how he should proceed with the rollout of this new... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Trends; Innovation Strategy; Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Richard O. Mason, and Melinda Conrad. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-025, June 1993. (Revised December 1995.)
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
blinded adjudicators, and counted for each case (overall and according to these categories). Trends in the number of precursor events were analyzed by hospital and by defining 10 equal-sized groups across time, as were View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
impact investing was doing in other parts of the world, and we thought that it would be a very good trend to bring back investing to Africa, given what else was going on. “At the moment, our Impact Fund is focusing on rural development.... View Details
- 2012
- Book
Banks as Multinationals
By: G. Jones
This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia survey the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Banks and Banking; Business Strategy; Geographic Location; Trends; Theory
Jones, G., ed. Banks as Multinationals. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- Student-Profile
Mengjie "Magie" Cheng
this trend can be predicted in the sharing economy. As a result, she applied to a wide range of programs, including the quantitative marketing track at HBS, as well as programs in organizational behavior, information systems, and... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
for life sciences innovation Understand macro trends driving innovation in the life sciences, including the impact of emerging bioconvergence topics at the intersection of the life sciences, data and computing Define roadmaps for life... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both stock prices and non-financial business... View Details
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
the chemical industry in the U.S.; Unrest in Chile, Looting at Walmart International; and Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News. The fourth module ("The Future of Globalization") uses the macroeconomic and political economy tools and insights built in the previous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
into the fabric of economic life. It’s really interesting to look back and see in the collections that a number of trends that we consider so modern concerning women in the workplace are not creations of the late 20th century.” View Details
- Web
Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
are not historically wealthy high-income democracies, and where many of the textbook assumptions regarding how markets function—such as the enforcement of contracts, anti-trust laws, universally low or absent tariffs, governments acting as referees rather than... View Details