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  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

not saying people can't do it, but if something is going to be scalable to the millions of workers who will be entering the system in the coming years, that idea doesn't work as a core strategy." Participants in the system can view... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-413 Issues in Non-Profit Governance Non-profit governance at its core is very different from for-profit governance. Certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to weigh carefully are moving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

including superiors, the board, and respected internal opinion leaders; 2) motivates others for change; 3) protects and nurtures the vital role of creative mavericks; 4) signals respect for and actively reinforces crucial core values; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

literature and a community of scholars, has a narrow and a broad definition. The narrower definition includes researchers such as myself who do primary archival research on the history of business, who belong to the societies, and who publish in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

core of the case is explored in the context of motion pleading and preliminary relief, and litigation strategy is presented as part of a company’s overall business strategy. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

Business School Case 212-010 Adaptive Engineering, LLC The owner and CEO of Adaptive Engineering was facing an important decision: should he focus on rebuilding its core professional services business, which had generated significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

groups and above a threshold with respect to system size. We find that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

an equally skilled person in another location at a lower wage. Other countries have been improving their game with good skills compared to us and have better infrastructure in some cases than we do. We believe the US retains its core... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

region's burgeoning energy sector by attracting green-minded companies to the urban core and position Charlotte as a highly progressive business center. The idea was to make Charlotte the "new energy hub of America" and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

whether focusing on its core brands, which currently represent 90% of sales, is a better approach. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512009-PDF-ENG The Expansion of Ping An Robert C. Pozen and Nina J. YangHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

tightly controls its search engine technology that is the core of its advertising profits. In a similar way, Facebook uses open source code to run its site and has recently opened up the design of its data centers, but closely guards its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

First, in the case of the core and largest sector, Advertising Agencies, firm-level concentration as measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) increased slightly but remained relatively low from 1977-2002. All of the HHI estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-112 Health Systems in the Developing World This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

play interference in OnStar's early years, it never would have succeeded, Huber maintains. Today, he shares that experience with MBA students to illustrate a key lesson: If you try to do something profoundly disruptive within a large company, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

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