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26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

kind that comes from years spent sitting in a plastic-and-bamboo shelter with no end in sight. Each day is the same, giving these migrants too much time to ruminate about the horrific violence they survived, family they lost, and where... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth century by individual immigrants or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2024
Case

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

China has been lowering other countries' export tariffs to help Chinese importers find the goods they need from non-American suppliers. Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

a narrow segment of higher-end families in selected communities in the Boston area. After four years of perfecting its business model, Streamline only recently expanded to the Washington, D.C., market. Its... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

"It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. In fact, baby... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

very sophisticated economy with some of the most educated and most successful business people in the world," Kirby continues. "But they will only be leaders if the Chinese government steps back." He is the T. M. Chang Professor of China... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

associated with adult outcomes at home. Sons raised by an employed mother spend more time caring for family members than men whose mothers stayed home full time, and daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or decamped to a family retreat. And... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 4

http://hbr.org/product/MRC-s-House-of-Cards-/an/515003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-006 Rick's Dilemma In 2014, Rick is serving as a trustee for a large family trust whose principle asset is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

state colleges and universities for families with incomes below $125,000. "A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing" Such a plan has obvious appeal. It would reduce... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

can be a competitor, but it can also be a collaborator” If anything, says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales S. Teixeira, that number understates the prevalence of media multitasking. "That 40 percent figure is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise in a family already made... View Details

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, a visiting scholar at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

dalliances of leaders, a kiss is never just a kiss. “A board’s oversight over culture and respect in the workplace has become much more important than it was prior to #MeToo.” A series of Harvard Business School case studies unfurls the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

morale. None of this need have happened if Starbucks had stayed private and grown at a more controlled pace. To continue to be a premium-priced brand while trading as a public company is very challenging. Tiffany faces a similar problem. That's why many luxury brands... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very... View Details