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- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
KindredHarvard Business School Case 511-015 For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
when its market capitalization increased 4,500 percent from about $4 billion to about $197 billion. The sense of, as they say at Intel, of bleeding blue. Q: An Intel way. A: Yes. Oh, very much so, there was...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
Corporations have traditionally considered taxes a painful but necessary cost of doing business. But this view has changed, says Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai. With the advent View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
integration have barely occurred, and globalization's future is fragile. Cross-border mergers are running up against protectionism, and local economic stagnation may lead to a reversal of globalization that may persist for decades. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
robot installed per 1,000 humans, some 370,000 fewer people migrated to a region inside the US. Between 1993 and 2015, the number of robots in the US rose by almost 190,000. That implies a drop in people...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
gasoline rather than Mobil if they disagreed with the Mobil CEO’s views on a social issue that’s not directly related to the business? When do the costs of CEO activism outweigh the benefits? And when can...
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- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
trust and credibility than a giant agribusiness company coming in and saying we want to help you.” Financing. That could come from the anchor corporation as part of its CSR budget, as well as from impact investors who seek social benefits...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that...
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- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
accountability of financial reporting practice in the broader capital market system, he explains. "We can use some of the insights of these...
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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
calendar became a bottleneck, and organizational decision making virtually ground to a halt. For a while, the CEO was oblivious to the high cost of his intrusive approach. As an outsider new to the company,...
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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
but you really need to reimagine what the right customer experience is and what the right cost base is to make this capital efficient for shareholders. Best Buy is a good example. Best Buy has taken most...
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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
relative to their costs in evaluating a product. So the production method should not be relevant. Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Six studies show how the production method of versioning may be...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
often challenged with pushing company leaders out of the "trade-off" mentality. "For years there was this institutional logic that says if you do the right thing, your competitiveness will be hurt and it will come at a...
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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
terms of increased business" for its environmental stance. A second possibility, more plausible according to Reinhardt, is that BP hoped that improved government relations, thanks to its policy, would offset the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare...
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