Filter Results:
(2,533)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,533)
- People (6)
- News (721)
- Research (1,354)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (512)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,533)
- People (6)
- News (721)
- Research (1,354)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (512)
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Business School Case 716-003 East Timor: Betting on Oil No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-702 BionX The BionX multimedia case introduces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
tracking the company’s fleet of custom-built delivery trucks as they move across 20 metropolitan areas in 14 states. Car owners can request gasoline and a host of other services, such as tire checks, car washes, and oil changes, via the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening... View Details
- 04 Oct 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go
When does a company founder have to go? In the frenzied, early months of a new venture's launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In the case study "Founder–CEO... View Details
Alex Civetta
Alex advises companies on the intersection of law and business, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, technology transactions, and negotiation. He represents startup companies on all matters from formation... View Details
Keywords: Legal
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
SchleferHarvard Business School Case 711-016 Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
disperse their activities to capture the opportunities and cost advantages of doing business around the world. Yet sourcing the low-cost inputs and building assembly plants in low-wage nations do not make a global strategy. Instead, View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
Recession. Q: In the 1980s, Americans were concerned about the competitive challenge from Japan. Are current challenges different? JR: Today, we've got a far more diverse set of global competitors with capabilities that span the full set of reasons that customers buy... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
exposure and fee generation. China + India: The Power of Two Author:Tarun Khanna Publication:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 12 (December 2007) Abstract China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Bei Guo
As an analyst at Citigroup in Japan, Bei Guo gained firsthand experience on the impact of equity capital markets on Asian business. "There are many excellent companies in Japan," Bei says, "and China is on a growth path in... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in... View Details
- Web
Steven B. Belkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Transcript (PDF) Steve Belkin, HBS 1971, is the founder of the privately held Trans National Group (TNG), a direct marketer of financial, travel, and other services to affinity groups like the American Medical Association. Since founding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
the nation and has more urgently enabled providers to move to other geographies to offer support during the surge. My guess is that some, perhaps even all, of this easing of regulation is temporary. But to the extent that it remains in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
company to Cargill, and I moved to the farm full time.” Today Three Chimneys employs 140 and encompasses 1,800 acres spread over six parcels of land: four are dedicated to mares and foals, one to yearlings, and the last to the farm’s... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Engineering team. At the moment, it appears that the government is unwilling or unable to share the method by which Apple’s phone systems were unlocked. For one thing, the company that hacked into the iPhone for the FBI did it with... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
efforts in Germany and France), consumers favor products that evolved slowly and are well engineered, while the French prefer style and innovation. These preferences are not just a matter of national DNA, but also reflect decisions made... View Details