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18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

(HBS MBA'87), director of the Agribusiness Program at HBS. A Family Farm Woolf Farming & Processing, established in 1974, is located in the southern part of California's Central Valley, one of the most fertile areas in the country.... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

first time on the HBS campus is struck by its size. When walking to my office, visitors looking for the "main HBS campus" often stop me. They assume the School must be located in only one or two buildings. I explain that most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2018
Case

Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti

After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and... View Details

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19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Sciences is moving to Allston, Mass., across the Charles River from its current location in Cambridge, in 2020. The move will make it a close neighbor of Harvard Business School, and there’s hope the proximity will encourage more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

diagnosis and treatment into distinct units because the skills and processes required for each are quite different. Services and locations will be better aligned, providing greater control and efficiency. Organizations will gather data on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/board-design-and-management-considerations-for-startups/an/814098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-093 Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (A) While the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

concentration without co-locating. The final layer examines why some firms are more inclined to co-locate than others based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and consults on health management issues... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

Bloomingdale's, McDonald's, and Macy's—and that it will work at about 220,000 merchant locations across the United States that have enabled contactless payments. But some analysts believe that's a small number compared with the nine... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

controlling for firm size, performance, accounting quality, location, and political contributions, among other factors. What's more, Heese learned these firms were even less likely to be convicted if they were headquartered in the district of a senior congressperson... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper declines in aggregate output, demand, and credit conditions displayed a greater advantage over local firms. Multinationals... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

and jeopardizing the next quarter's sales. Meanwhile, because the executives in different product groups and locations rarely sat in the same meetings, initiatives in their various areas were not coordinated. SKUs (stockkeeping units, or... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

level of maturity where scaling the business model was the next logical step. With two greenhouses already in Canada, he was looking into other locations in the U.S. Though Lufa Farms' advanced cultivation technologies made the company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s as well as instrument immigrants’ location... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

product development, customer support, and “Eastern Labs”—a new office enclosed by glass walls and located in the middle of Eastern's main lobby. Rivers provides Labs with $4 million annually—1% of gross revenues—to develop new banking... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

(Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 705-441 Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Victors & Spoils, a crowdsourcing advertising agency, to examine internal reactions. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Havas--Change-Faster/an/615702-MMC-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-701 Victors & Spoils: 'Born Open' Victors & Spoils... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

has to decide where to locate the company's new manufacturing line for high horsepower engines. He has three choices to decide from: Seymour, Indiana; Daventry, England; and Pune, India. The Community Education Coalition (CEC) in Columbus... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details