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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
stem-cell R&D will almost certainly fade,” explains HBS professor Debora Spar, “because determined would-be buyers and sellers will eventually constitute a market of their own, either by circumventing the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
job. But Newman voiced some serious concerns about competition from industry giants such as Heinz, Campbell's, and Kraft, along with the skyrocketing price of shelf space in grocery chains. Responding to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
organizations. Final approval of the deal was based on ARD's receiving $3 million in subscriptions, with at least half of that coming from institutions. ARD engineered other... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
Sloan School of Management, Harvard Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
necessary to save his brother’s life, but intent on laying some sort of foundation for success. The first step was an undergrad degree at Cornell, close to his family’s upstate New York home, and then View Details
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
midfield dictates the pace of play, gives its forwards and defenders more time to set up their plays, and breaks up attacks by the opposing team's front line. In business, it's not fashionable to concentrate View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries
By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng
Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Price; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; China
Abrami, Regina, and Yu Zheng. "The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-042, October 2010.
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Levels of Government - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
where many countries fail and pay the price in terms of lower competitiveness and prosperity Geographic & Governmental Influences on Productivity State Example View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
since 2009. Those efforts, however, have been slowed by strong opposition from EMC, one of the state’s largest tech companies. That led Johnson to consider an innovative approach to changing noncompetes.... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
and white, I then, if I think it advisable, undertake to educate him on the different registers, and see that he gets one best adapted to his work. High prices, of course, is... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
sales or gross margin could turn a profitable store base into one that is best left to wither. “Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider assortments than any... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholars have long recognized that the states’ authority to charter corporations bolstered their antitrust powers in ways that were not available to the federal government. But they have also argued that the growth of large-scale enterprises operating in national and... View Details
Keywords: Voting Trusts; Antitrust; Business and Shareholder Relations; Lawsuits and Litigation; History; United States
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Laura Phillips Sawyer. "Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-109, May 2019.