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  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

competition and do not commit to protecting fundamental rights. I find that, sometimes, businesspeople seem attracted to one-party regimes because they seem efficient or lack political conflict. But political conflict is always present in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

no longer hurt American interests—its incidence would fall on Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese manufacturers trying to sell into the highly competitive American market. Q: President Jimmy Carter ceded formal control. Why did our interest... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

concepts: Business and Government Relations, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance Leadership and Corporate Accountability Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A) Key... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower interest rates and lower quality intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no real impact. Finally, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

initiative with an unlikely acronym: YALP, the Young American Leaders Program. Launched in 2015 out of the School’s US Competitiveness Project and convening every June, YALP brings together 10 leaders from each of 14 cities across the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

focus on ESG may be a competitive advantage when bidding on opportunities and a source of risk-mitigation for these projects over the long-run. Wellington Global Impact (218067) by Shawn Cole and Lynn Schenk... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

capitalists bid for the right to invest on those terms by proving that they can add value to BzzAgent, Inc. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807057 Corning: 156 Years of... View Details
  • September 2020
  • Case

Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley
In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Market Design; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Business Model; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Decisions; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Strategy; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

work to China, DSHM would become uncompetitive. However, in outsourcing the work, some skills would necessarily have to be transferred, potentially teaching the future competition and providing them with a platform to attack DSHM's core... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including a failure to understand the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2021
  • News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

a signi cant potential upside compared with solutions obtained via classical RO methods. Working Papers Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

managerial decision making. Six facets of institutional logic-a common purpose, a long-term focus, emotional engagement, partnering with the public, innovation, and self-organization-radically alter leadership and corporate behavior and form the building blocks of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

It's academic. (Not!)

on shaping and influencing the way tomorrow's leaders will change the world. The need for management faculty has never been greater; in recent years, a wave of faculty retirements, combined with a shortage of graduates with advanced business degrees, has created an... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

and address some fundamental questions. He’ll also explain how these and other organizations have discovered that experimentation provides considerable competitive advantages. Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't Professor Feng Zhu... View Details
  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

the way, making it a more difficult struggle for them than for others. In competition with others that have more resources, underdogs feel the odds are against them. The underdog's internal characteristics are largely positive: Underdogs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Faculty Research Online

who bid on everything from chips to consultants, should be wary in bidding wars of the consequences of competitive arousal and of wanting to win at any cost. View Details
Keywords: nonprofit; social impact; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Case Study: Citizen Buffett

INK-STAINED ORACLE: Buffett's Media General bid focused on small-town papers. AP Photo/Nati Harnik by Deborah Blagg In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US... View Details
Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information