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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
electricity from power plant, and steam or hot water from district energy systems. Scope 3: Indirect emissions from a company’s supply and value chains. This includes the emissions associated with producing the materials a company... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand's most enticing qualities. The third age, embodied by the book clubs, is that of interactive marketing, where a company uses individual... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
international equity markets. The average slope coefficient on the ERP is a highly significant 1.05. In contrast, factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power worldwide. Integrating the model with a dynamic information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
says that’s enough to make it through.” Scrutinize every cost. Every dollar matters now. Companies hanging by a thread should try to renegotiate contracts with suppliers and landlords, and refinance debt. Is there a new View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
overseas suppliers. One example is Hasbro, which began sourcing from firms in India, Vietnam, and Mexico in the last five years. Moving existing suppliers out of China. Goertek, a supplier of Google’s Pixel... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in memory chips.... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and design tools,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
approach was not a universal panacea to competing in the global economy." Porter went on to suggest that even the profitable Japan had serious limitations. "Total quality management, lifetime employment, close relationships with View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
software. Ideas, manpower, and money add up to tremendous innovation occurring in the country right now, he said. John Deng, CEO and president of Chinese chipmaker Vimicro, said his company is proof of Chinese innovation. Vimicro holds some 400 patents and is the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
suppliers and reselling them, in the process absorbing all the risk of platform failure. In stage two, the firm shifts risk and control back to some or all of its suppliers, giving them more responsibility for managing inventory, pricing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
underlying social contract. A second union was quickly organized, and it took a far more adversarial approach, demanding higher wages and insisting on job guarantees. Local suppliers saw the company as untrustworthy and refused to do... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
accelerate through the crisis. We are finding that there are three stages of addressing a crisis: Stabilize and defend your core business by engaging employees, customers, suppliers and members of your community to identify and address... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
disadvantage. Third, increasing wages or selecting suppliers with better environmental practices might bring a financial benefit in the long term; however, short-term pressures on the firm might make business leaders averse to making such... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to lose money or power should the status quo be overturned." What kind of money and power stands to be lost, and by whom? How did we get to this homogenized pricing of the present insurance system in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Microsoft, Intel, and Apple in the new book, Strategy Rules. Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do (32,083) While women and men believe they are equally able to attain high-level leadership positions, men want that View Details