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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
Hans-Willi Schroiff, vice president of market research and business intelligence for the German company Henkel, described why detergent has made a valuable case study for new and edgy marketing. (They cautioned that they are not ready to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
happiness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-029 Obamacare One vote in June, 2012, decided the fate of President Barack Obama's crowning first-term achievement:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
immortal, it would only be because it never rested. Henry Ford's career bears some interesting similarities to Watson's. Ford built his first automobile, the quadricycle, in 1896. Many people at the time thought the automobile was a mere plaything for the rich.... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
an overview of the path that C. R. Smith pursued to build American Airlines into one of the largest airlines in the world in the 20th century. Over the course of his 30-year tenure as president of American Airlines, Smith deployed a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than a year after the law was... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
and Poor's. Unfortunately, it won't do us much good. The damage has been done. This downgrade was probably bound to happen once Speaker Boehner and President Obama failed to agree on a "grand bargain" of $4 trillion in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
be overlooked if not forgiven. Clinton will doubtless try to pin Trump down on policy and expose his lack of detailed knowledge. Trump will try to stick to broad brush strokes, avoid policy specifics and leave enough white space for voters to paint in the details of a... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
raises interesting questions about how leaders are chosen. It appears the employees have engineered the return of company President Arthur T. Demoulas by nearly putting their organization out of business. It was a remarkable move,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
internal side, he said, and both of those are necessary for happiness. Platinum Standards And Sticking To Them As the third speaker, Scott W. Ventrella offered his own story to encourage members of the audience to look inside for answers. Ventrella, a Connecticut-based... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
Serkes Valora Technologies Inc. "We find the needle in the haystack," said CEO and President Sandra Serkes. Her company has a patent-pending computer server, the Linkify Information Connectivity Server, that works to ease the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Aguirre, president of P&G's global feminine care division. Most companies believe that in times of crisis you have to drop your costs. That typically leads to erosion of consumer value because you actually erode your product... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
and the United States: Dr. Werner G. Seifert, chairman of Deutsche Borse (the German Stock Exchange) and an architect of the planned merger between his Frankfurt-based organization and the London Stock Exchange; James L. Cochrane, senior vice View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements sparked a great deal of backlash and... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by the significant diplomatic role he played in negotiating an end... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
came to this country chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School." When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
President since 2003, and the secular urban elite, whose party this year won the mayoral elections in Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul. How this tension plays out will also have a formative influence on Turkey’s trajectory. About the Author... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Mosaic of Different Realities' A day after his inauguration as President of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto announced a Pact for Mexico—a slate of institutional reforms for education, energy, fiscal policy, telecommunications, banking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
in industrial water and wastewater systems. Woteer had expressed an interest in gaining exclusive access to Oasys' forward osmosis technology for water treatment applications in China in exchange for an equity investment. Jim Matheson, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel