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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
put himself in a position to make a smart move when the time was right. When the Patriots first went on the market in the late 1980s, Kraft was wrapped up in other businesses and apparently didn't have the wherewithal to put a deal together. The team was purchased by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
working mother had an unusual start. Gruver, a vice president at Bain Consulting, found out she was pregnant just when her husband was being relocated to Chicago from Boston. She didn't want to stop working, so flew back and forth for a... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Into this environment, President Macri was elected and he made energy reform one of the key pillars of his administration. Furthermore, he invited the private sector back into Argentina to immediately alleviate its power generation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
market reform with Sam Hanson and Adi Sunderam.] Many are frustrated with the slow pace of regulatory reform, including President Obama, who recently urged regulators to move things along. Indeed, the pace has been slow. Agencies are... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
and who could do the job. And then keeping them. And delegation became my new mantra." Lisa Bowen, who eventually became the president of Tweezerman, remembers her boss from the early days: "At first he was a micromanager. Tried... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often overlooked. Nevertheless, several recent... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
EU Commission President Juncker sees “the wind [ ] back in Europe's sails.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55046 Harvard Business School Case 518-034 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
propose a way to alter our health insurance benefits universe for insured employees and the self-insured by combining the best of Republican and Democratic ideas about health insurance. More choice, affordability, and personal control A union between View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 912-003 Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being promoted to executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
they require earlier in the purchase process online. As they do so, their physical interactions with EMC salespeople are decreasing, while their digital interactions are increasing. Given the changing business environment, BJ Jenkins, senior vice View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
re-adjust Gucci's portfolio, especially as YSL continued to lose money. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709459 HP: The Computer Is Personal Again Harvard Business School Case 509-010 In September 2008, Todd Bradley,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
staff, and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical research game, with approximately $1.4 billion in annual funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). But in February 2010, Drew... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
(A) Harvard Business School Case 407-106 Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cite should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
David Blumenthal, professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Michael Newman, a senior research manager at Harris Interactive; Kinga Zapert, vice president for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
ten thousand employees, and operations throughout the world, and it evolved into an. increasingly deep partnership. By 1998, Starbucks had boomed into a global company with sales of almost $1 billion and was CARE's largest corporate donor. CARE View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
James E. Heppelmann Abstract—The evolution of products into intelligent, connected devices is revolutionizing business. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
public was further damaged recently by revelations in the Panama Papers about his stockbroker father’s offshore activities, has presided over two of them. The Scottish independence referendum in 2014 nearly resulted in Scotland’s leaving... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
rally support around maintenance." Summit participants had reason to feel optimistic that a long-term infrastructure plan might be hammered out. On the same day that the summit began, February 26, President Obama called on lawmakers... View Details