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  • 05 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

butter: the paper book. First it was Books on Tape, followed by books on phones, and then the king of business model killers, Amazon.com's Kindle. “Traditional trade book publishers are scared.” Now the iPad, with its magnificent color... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

relentlessly attacked in the US" while those most affected by the act as implemented express "acquiescence or even mild praise." The paper, SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review, is scheduled to be published later... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

customers by doing less." "I have been studying retail in-store logistics," says Ton, "looking at what goes wrong in those 'last 10 yards' of the supply chain—from the store's loading dock to the customer's hands—and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive and higher quality. A panel moderated View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 08 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

unavoidable, research by HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton suggests that retailers should make labor decisions thoughtfully. "Many retailers see labor more as a cost driver than a sales driver." Her advice: Consider the supply-chain foot... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 04 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

of geographic space in establishing networks." The Vital Network Venture capital shares some of the same qualities as the life sciences industry in terms of the crucial role played by networks, Stuart says. "Networks are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

with case studies on projects in Venezuela, Kuwait, China, and Thailand, among others. For example, Esty and research associate Fuaad A. Qureshi coauthored a case on a $1.4- billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique known as the Mozal project. Ravaged View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

student in the 1980s, I'm sure the whole class would have said to absolutely take the $4 billion." Yet in a visit to the classroom, Yudkoff emphasized his opposing belief that the best way to prosper over the long haul is to do what is best for investors View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 08 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

that it’s easier for most people to make money than it is to give it away,” Stevenson recently told an audience at a Books@Baker event sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Many people don’t like to ask other people for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

by how well the diversity of its leadership reflects the diversity of its customer base and how well that leadership can leverage the skills of teams working around the world," he says, adding that Medtronic's CEO is Omar Ishrak, a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 09 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

used by contract workers to obtain stretchwork. O'Mahony is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School while Bechky is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. "More... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

Tucker notes that these systems have their place, as they provide the opportunity for workers to anonymously report safety violations being made by physicians and other health-care workers. But her research shows that they can also be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

conjectured they would get a much more natural and powerful way of reaching a conclusion by creating a setting where the students actually go through some kind of competitive process to reach the same outcomes they would otherwise be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

How do real-world conditions and shifting personal priorities influence a young MBA's early career path—those first five to ten years that executives remember as being of such critical importance? To find out, Harvard Business School professor David A. Thomas gathered... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • October 2003
  • Case

Financing Biodiversity Conservation by the Global Conservation Fund

By: Mihir A. Desai and Julia Stevens
The Global Conservation Fund is an international nonprofit organization with a $100 million endowment and an exclusive focus on land preservation. The fund and its director must decide which projects to fund over the next year and what financing mechanism to use.... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Protection; Project Evaluation; Environmental Sustainability; Projects; Finance; Decision Making; Financial Instruments; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

rewarding to deal with issues that were so important and formative of this country. The combination of Hamilton and Gallatin's thought still defines the tensions in American political economy as we know it today." Julia Hanna: How... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new venture. That was the message... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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