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- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Gap, Inc., 2012." Harvard Business School Case 713-511, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- February 1987 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Polysar Limited
By: Robert L. Simons
Canada's largest chemical company produces and markets butyl rubber in two divisions, each treated as a profit center. The new plant in the North American Division operates below capacity resulting in a significant volume variance and an operating loss. The European... View Details
Keywords: Loss; Profit; Financial Management; Volume; Performance Capacity; Financial Statements; For-Profit Firms; Market Participation; Chemical Industry; Rubber Industry; Canada
Simons, Robert L. "Polysar Limited." Harvard Business School Case 187-098, February 1987. (Revised February 2000.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
financial risks with targeted focus and great effectiveness. Contractual agreements, principally futures and swaps as well as options, have been central tools. Just as interest rate swaps have transformed what passive risks that banks, other financial institutions, and... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
"Three-Party Exchanges: The Case of Executive Search Firms and the CEO Search," he describes how the function of search firms in CEO recruiting differs from the role they View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
policy implications of these findings. The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed data from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
settings include job agencies (whose customers include both job seekers and listers), realtors (whose clients include home sellers and purchasers), and auction houses (whose customers include buyers and sellers). Customers such as buyers of an auction house pay no fees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
production of weapon systems and equipment, DoD engages tens of thousands of prime contractors—including most of the major firms in the United States—and tens of thousands of suppliers and subcontractors. The importance of the DoD's huge... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
Deighton, is that participants enhance their personal capital in performance of a good deed. Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy Misiek Piskorski explores the secrets of successful social media tactics in his book, A Social... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
and suburban areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52059 Financing Payouts By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin Schmalz Abstract—We study the extent to which firms rely on the capital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
interest among multinational firms, including, Margolis observes, those that hesitated to participate in the initial survey. In focusing on the perceived differences between what a company should do and what it actually does do, this research has yielded a valuable... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. In addition, she... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are]... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace