Publications

14 Jan 2019
Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

established, Charlie concentrated his jobseeking efforts on industries and functions he could fulfill while living with Carolina in New York. "I looked at many roles in smaller industries," he says, before landing his current... View Details

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

management all conserve water—increasingly important steps as droughts become more frequent. Innovation Transitioning away from carbon-intensive energy to power industrial production, designing products with... View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Compaq were at the top, with close to the same revenues, three of these four Japanese companies followed. In software, IBM remained the world's leading revenue producer; then came Microsoft, followed by Hitachi, Fujitsu, and NEC. By 1996 the European View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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Historic Industry & Trade Literature | Baker Library

Historic Industry & Trade Literature Baker Old Class The Baker Old Class collection is Baker Library’s first circulating collection. These materials offer a depth and breadth rarely seen in business literature collections. The extensive... View Details

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

density of working population, such as in urban areas, those selection projections may now be compromised. Another critical factor that will impact the industry is the sheer number of unemployed Americans overall and the cadence of their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
Case

HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?

By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Dalia Rahman

Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Value Creation; Education Industry; Massachusetts

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

debated at a panel discussion called "Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends," moderated by Harvard Business School professor Lynda Applegate. The "strike zone" for his firm is network infrastructure,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

June 2001 (Revised March 2008)
Exercise

Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: General Instructions for All Simulation Participants

Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey

November 2021
Case

Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green

Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details

Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Conflict and Resolution; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

we actually use it. A shipper driven by overnight deliveries may never before have understood the importance of date-sensitive systems as they relate to leasing, for example. More important, we all are discovering that in the Y2K context,... View Details

May 2011 (Revised January 2012)
Teaching Note

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold (TN)

By: Anette Mikes

Teaching Note for 110011. View Details

Keywords: Credit; Risk Management; Governance; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry

Research Summary

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (joint with Andrew Charlton)

By: Laura Alfaro

In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. Establishing the quality of FDI, however, is a difficult concept. Quality, that is the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth, is a combination and... View Details

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Industry Research | Baker Library

Industry Classifications to another system (e.g., NAICS), if desired Search for an industry or browse all industries. After making a selection, click View Results. Click again... View Details

July 2020
Case

Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within

By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards

When Kathy Fish, Procter & Gamble’s Chief Research, Development & Innovation Officer, and a 40-year company veteran, stepped into her role in 2014, she was concerned that the world’s leading consumer packaged goods company had lost its capability to produce a steady... View Details

Keywords: Female Protagonist; Organizational Change; Organizational Behavior; Culture Change; Digital; Innovation; Lean Startup; Experimentation; Metrics; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruption; Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation