President - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

overstretch ARK's organizational capacity and risk failing to maintain the highest quality of delivery? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309036 Allston: Brand vs. Architecture Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

management of the two funds. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208036 The CW: Launching a Television Network Harvard Business School Case 507-050 In May 2006, Dawn Ostroff, president of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

Hans-Willi Schroiff, vice president of market research and business intelligence for the German company Henkel, described why detergent has made a valuable case study for new and edgy marketing. (They cautioned that they are not ready to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital unit investing in companies in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

happiness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-029 Obamacare One vote in June, 2012, decided the fate of President Barack Obama's crowning first-term achievement:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

immortal, it would only be because it never rested. Henry Ford's career bears some interesting similarities to Watson's. Ford built his first automobile, the quadricycle, in 1896. Many people at the time thought the automobile was a mere plaything for the rich.... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

University of Utah not given Myriad an exclusive license to a discovery the university made in its own labs, there may have been no need for a conflict whatsoever. But among other things, the dispute resonates deeply with a call to action made by Eric Lander, View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Sucher: Dust off that COVID playbook After the June 27 debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, 64 percent of 1,024 US workers surveyed reported suffering—or seeing others... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

stop for a drink, eager to reward business initiative. What's missing in Europe are the incentives and the network.— Enrico Bastianelli,ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals Expanding on that theme, Ted Llana, vice president of Global Commercial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

latest, fastest microprocessor. Politicians, like marketers, understand the importance of the venturesome consumer. President Obama's campaign slogan, "Change we can believe in," captures perfectly the spirit of the venturesome... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

the government should not be in the business of helping some small businesses and not others. The editorial writers reinforced their view of SBA by pointing to President Obama’s proposed reorganization of federal economic agencies in... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

media," said Keith Clinkscales (HBS MBA '90). As an undergraduate at Florida A&M, Clinkscales said he was exposed to the power of the urban entertainment culture and wanted to start a business that captured that energy. After serving as View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

be overlooked if not forgiven. Clinton will doubtless try to pin Trump down on policy and expose his lack of detailed knowledge. Trump will try to stick to broad brush strokes, avoid policy specifics and leave enough white space for voters to paint in the details of a... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

raises interesting questions about how leaders are chosen. It appears the employees have engineered the return of company President Arthur T. Demoulas by nearly putting their organization out of business. It was a remarkable move,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

internal side, he said, and both of those are necessary for happiness. Platinum Standards And Sticking To Them As the third speaker, Scott W. Ventrella offered his own story to encourage members of the audience to look inside for answers. Ventrella, a Connecticut-based... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

Serkes Valora Technologies Inc. "We find the needle in the haystack," said CEO and President Sandra Serkes. Her company has a patent-pending computer server, the Linkify Information Connectivity Server, that works to ease the... View Details