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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
labels (vs. text warning labels, calorie labels, and no labels), provided insight into psychological mechanisms driving effectiveness, and assessed consumer sentiment. Study 1 indicated that graphic warning labels reduced the share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these channels and explain regional heterogeneity in the effects of RER changes in terms of differences in export intensity, import... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
fraud increased significantly, particularly in regions where the FBI focused its counterterrorism efforts, according to a study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Trung Nguyen. The study is among the first to link the FBI’s... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
infrastructure to take advantage of the new technology. Rich areas pulled away more from less-rich areas, making regional inequality worse. As we sometimes say succinctly, the internet enabled midwestern farmers to easily reach Manhattan... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
unusual to find stores from the same chain selling a product for different prices in different regions or online. Cavallo attributes this to the transparency afforded by the internet and customers’ concerns about fairness. “The web allows... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Upper Burma in 1886 brought the rest of that country under British control. Also during the late nineteenth century large regions of tropical Africa were incorporated in the European, especially British and French, colonial empires during... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
future others will share their view than to believe that future others will have an opposing view (e.g., opposition to President Trump). Six studies demonstrated this belief in a favorable future (BFF) for political views, scientific... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711026-PDF-ENG Energy Security in Europe (B): The Southern Corridor Rawi Abdelal and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Supplement 711-033 Nabucco natural gas pipeline, initiated by a group of European energy companies,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
distancing with our colleagues from our work teams.” On the other hand, Melanie Roberts reminds us that, “Charles Handy refers to culture as the soup we all swim about in, and that soup is thin when the ‘here’ is not a location and people are working asynchronously and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
US. This would allow them to open plants overseas to help in lowering manufacturing costs, yet still keep their iconic image.” Fahd suggested that the Company “look into building every continent’s bikes within the same region while... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
that internal support or shared services groups provide, such straight-across cost or numeric comparisons become meaningless. Today's successful support unit earns its keep by being a trusted partner to the business units it serves. So,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
businesses. From 2005 to 2009, the company focused on becoming a leading regional developer with a multiproduct offering. That strategy was successful, riding the wave of spectacular growth in the Chinese real estate sector from 1998 to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
and the tasks so interwoven. "Measuring one organization's contribution to earthquake relief may be possible, but it is less important than collective results," Ebrahim says. On the other hand, nonprofits that are the only actors working in a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Prosperity In 2014, Khuram Mir, CEO of HN Agri Serve, an innovative apple orchard company in the Kashmir region of Northern India, wonders about the best growth strategy for his company. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
odds of surviving a heart attack—almost eliminated the regional performance differences of hospitals. "Why are Black and white patients who live in the same ZIP code, who are both covered by Medicare and can go anywhere, being treated at... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
flat world, what differences have mattered, do matter, and will continue to matter for companies? Pankaj Ghemawat: The subtitle is meant to emphasize that we continue to live in a semiglobalized world, one where differences between countries and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
what he called "procedural asides" to demonstrate how the case might be taught in a classroom), the Embraer case also illuminated ways that companies might craft a strategy to balance two spheres of influence: market and non-market forces. Issues Unique To... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
surpluses/deficit on a sustained basis if normal adjustments through exchange rate movements work sluggish. This is a possibility that has become very real over the last few years. Export-oriented countries might get trapped in beggar-thy-neighbor policies to capture... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
$100 million loss. As soon as 11 days after the disaster, he started reopening Lawson stores in the affected region to help regain normalcy and take steps toward rebuilding the economy. "Because I had communicated Lawson’s purpose as a... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Then there's the recent debacle involving a big beverage company. The vice president of sales for one of the company's largest regions dramatically underpredicted demand for an upcoming major holiday. His motivation was simple—he wanted... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen