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  • 27 May 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

Professor John Quelch provides some answers. Key concepts include: For decades, Ford has created specialized products for different countries while Toyota, Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella. Ford's strategy resulted in added... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in supply chains, reinventing value... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Case

Negotiating a Legacy at Sustainable Harvest (A)

By: Jillian Jordan, Julian Zlatev, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter
The specialty coffee importer Sustainable Harvest was the first certified B Corp in the coffee industry due to its investments in building coffee farmers’ capacity and livelihood. But in 2022, after coffee prices plummeted and the company’s bank declined to extend its... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Acquisition; Trust; Ethics; Agribusiness; Volatility; Futures and Commodity Futures; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
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  • Profile

Hiroshi Mikitani

taught at Yale, and later getting his MBA at HBS, Mikitani got a firsthand taste of entrepreneurial fervor. As he wrote in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article, “I’d learned that it doesn’t matter how big your employer is—what matters is how much View Details
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

genetically modified foods in Europe. Betting the company on a "life sciences" vision, Shapiro had sold or spun off Monsanto's traditional chemical businesses and moved aggressively to acquire seed companies. Dazzled by the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to create a business is often at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

problem. Despite that, although we all share this resource, we don’t respect its value and its use. Everybody believes unlimited access to water is their God-given right, and that plays out in its use and abuse.” There is a nexus of food,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

compare the slant and bias of pairs of articles on identical topics of U.S. politics. Our slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democratic (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 04 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

properties. “They are in waterproof jackets, bike chain grease, ski wax, and even some fast-food containers and popcorn bags.” The risks, experts say, are that PFAS are “forever chemicals” and can stay in water or the air for hundreds of... View Details
  • Profile

Layeeka Ismail

amazing melting pot with people coming from different corners of the world with different experiences and perspectives, all of whom are passionate, driven, and mission-oriented / want to change the world. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor! My... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

place to study the misery of joblessness and the value of work, but not to Reshmaan N. Hussam, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. After reading about the atrocities, she visited the camp in December... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 13 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods

OrganizationPaul Coz, Vice President Human Resources, Gorton's Seafoods Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Gorton's, America's iconic seafood company, is the category leader in frozen, value added seafood, providing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 10 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

growth, but we still have a very poor understanding of the value implications of these kinds of actions. So there's lots of room for improvement. Q: Are there certain companies excelling in this area, or any industries where ESG... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • November 2022
  • Case

The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Ink

brand values (the employees’ work environment embodies the organization—beanbag chairs in the conference room and walls full of Post-its); and environment and sustainability (a less-is-more mentality and environmentally conscious... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in biodiversity, climate change, and food... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

from the athenahealth practice management system and EHR task logs. Methods: We developed monthly measures of EHR use and delegation to support staff from task logs. Productivity was measured using work relative value units (RVUs). Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

operations and supply chain will not only better enable them to manage future pandemics, but also some of the disruptions that climate change is bringing like more intensive storms, droughts, and flooding. I also hope that this pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost