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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

the Goldsmith Fellowship program to promote student achievement by facilitating greater coordination among cross-sector partners, such as school districts, government agencies, and employers.” Raghav Srinivasan. Raghav brings four years... View Details
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

alongside a global community of peers through our Active, Social, Case-Based learning model. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809163 Arcor: Global Strategy and Local Turbulence (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 710-407 Argentine confectionery manufacturer, Arcor Group, seeks to implement an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

turnout among those who would have registered anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in the elections, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. Overall, these results suggest that easing... View Details
  • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma

By: Dante Roscini and John Masko
In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy
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  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

any of his contemporaries, however, he strove to make an all-encompassing system of sales management. He created a global sales force that constantly sought new customers (and tried to sell replacement merchandise to existing ones) and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

analyzed a year of individual-level data from a North American online grocer to determine how the delay between when a person's order was completed and when it was delivered affected the content of the order. In general, as the delay... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

looking for sustainability.” Rob Kautz provided us with a reminder that sustainability should be a concern of shareholders as well. In his words, “Empirical financial analyses have shown that consistent returns over three years or more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

Employers were so impressed with how smoothly their employees handled remote work during the dramatic lockdowns in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic that many are going permanently remote, ditching expensive office leases and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

integrated into a broad, often global, web of relationships. A fourth catalyst is transparency. Leaders and organizations of all kinds are increasingly operating in glasshouses. The explosion in transparency wrought by a global media,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
  • April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Petrobras in Ecuador (A)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Taxation; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil; Ecuador
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

and Jessica L. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009) An abstract is unavailable. Purchase the article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/10/making-time-off-predictable--required/ar/1   Cases & Course MaterialsCEMEX (A): Building the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

around the world, the authors show that the combination of rapid credit and asset price growth over the prior three years is associated with a 40% probability of entering a financial crisis within the next three years. The evidence... View Details
  • February 2017
  • Case

Clear Channel (A): The Rise, 1972–2003

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
At the end of 2003, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a diversified media group with revenues of $8.9 billion, could claim leadership positions in all three of its main businesses. Clear Channel Broadcasting was the largest radio-station operator in the world, with... View Details
Keywords: Clear Channel; Clear Channel Outdoor; Radio; Outdoor Advertising; Concert Industry; Lowry Mays; Federal Communications Commission; Regulation; Regulations; Regulatory Environment; JCDecaux; Media; Growth Management; Consolidation; Competitive Strategy; Fair Value Accounting; Advertising; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; For-Profit Firms; Entertainment; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Public Equity; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Business History; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Wireless Technology; Valuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Advertising Industry; Music Industry; United States; Texas
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  • 11 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

with Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, examined 35,262 high-tech startups founded globally between 2008 and 2013. They detailed their results in the working paper, Digital Experimentation... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue By: Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard Abstract—Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

eliminated discount coupons, and decorated in a spare style more suited to a hospital than a food retailer. Five years later, Fresh & Easy has not made a dime, and analysts are wondering whether the company should pack up and go home,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

By the early 1980s, several high-income countries—including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—had universal health insurance covering 100 percent of the population. Meanwhile, 40 years later, the United... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health