Sectorization - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

the audience, comparing the recent focus on nonprofit strategy to the rise of interest in for-profit strategy in the 1970s. In Bradach's view, the sector is on the front end of a curve, with nonprofits less afraid to look critically at... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

Abstract—We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large public sector organizations. As our case study we examine CEOs of English public hospitals, which are large, complex organizations with multi-million turnover.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

through their purchasing. Working Papers Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively? By: Edelman, Benjamin Abstract—I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying and bundling to leverage its dominance into new View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

executives to develop relationships with the largest women- and minority-owned businesses in the United States. This was important not only because these business sectors are growing fast but because their leaders are often highly visible... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

this case: http://hbr.org/search/712459-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case ###-### Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

industries over others, including wishing to avoid sectors where there was extensive government interference. Oral history can shed light on hypersensitive topics, such as corruption, which are rarely formally documented. While the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Gary Emmons: Are there industries or... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

them? If we value diversity in leadership ranks, what can be done to provide greater access to the essential crucibles? In general, what can we do in the private or public sectors to create crucibles from which leaders may emerge? What... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

agricultural powerhouse competitive on an international scale. And it has the large, ambitious population needed to drive its development, both as workers and consumers. Akinyanju and Oduntan believe many of the issues constraining Nigeria's poultry View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

sector to add value to government data. In particular, it may prove a boon to small businesses, which can devise creative applications. Organizational agility: As a lean organization with minimal staff, Data.gov made the right move by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

champions that the government hoped to create, SPH was also considering an acquisition in the U.S. or Europe. This case allows students to consider the broad trends sweeping China's pharmaceutical industry and health care sector and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

in Austria, China, and India. Students can explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, the process of introducing new measurement approaches, alignment of activities with strategic goals, and issues in leading change both within a company and across an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 1997 (Revised November 1997)
Teaching Note

Cleveland Turnaround, The: Case and Video TN

By: James E. Austin

Teaching Note for (9-796-151), (9-796-152), (9-796-153), (9-796-154), and (9-797-501). View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Government Administration; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Crisis Management; Corporate Accountability; Economic Sectors; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Development Economics; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships

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19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

education from Classes VI - VIII, a second phase of two years of vocational training, and a third phase of asking the children to pay back any loans with accrued interest. We intend to offer the product through a series of partnerships with microfinance institutions.... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

Vulnerabilities don’t work on a calendar. Cybercriminals show up when they show up.” You Might Also Like: How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

the housing sector to just cool off for a little bit." Gerardo Lietz: The Fed is signaling there may be as many as four rate hikes. When the cost of borrowing goes up, it does tend to put a damper on buyers. Quite honestly, it would be a... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

January 2018
Case

Ak Gıda: IPO or Strategic Sale

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Eren Kuzucu

In 2015, Yıldiz Holding, one of the world’s largest producer of confections, biscuits and crackers, was at the end of its divestiture process from Ak Gida, one of the leading dairy companies in Turkey. The company had adopted a dual track process, pursuing an initial... View Details