Publications

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

transactions. In this short intensive program, faculty will evaluate innovative strategies to create new marketplaces and opportunities, examine the key challenges in competing with large incumbent firms, and show how incumbents can defend their View Details

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently simple to participate in the market, as opposed to transacting outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2021 Virtual Presentations - Alumni

projections. The recovery has been spurred by rapid vaccine development and hampered by slow vaccine rollouts, supply disruptions, labor shortages, and pockets of inflation. A range of new regulations and the restructuring of Evergrande... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

last spring, at the height of pandemic lockdowns. And before the pandemic, social media use had been flat for four years as these advertising channels became more cluttered and distrusted, offering marketers diminishing returns. “Managers... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

April 1983 (Revised October 2000)
Case

People Express (A)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Debra Whitestone

Describes the start up, strategy, organizational design, and operations over the first eighteen months of the airline. Focuses on the creative use of human resources as an integral part of the business strategy. View Details

Keywords: Human Capital; Air Transportation; Organizational Design; Operations; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Air Transportation Industry; United States

October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko

In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details

Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States

January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Fawn Weaver, as a Black woman and industry outsider in a capital-intensive, highly regulated, competitive and male-dominated spirits industry, successfully overcame numerous obstacles to launch a premium American whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest in 2017, which became the... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

that would afford him greater freedom and control. In order to realize a variety of applications for his new invention, Land would need to produce reams of sheets of his synthetic polarizing material. "Exploring how innovation happens, one has to underline how the... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key financial decisions entrepreneurs must make in the early stages of a... View Details

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

faith that markets will once again bring labor back into equilibrium... the alternative of suppressing advances in efficiency is not within the realm of reason." Amy Savin commented, "I believe... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from the women in the farming family. During harvest season in... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

are experiencing me, and less averse to having difficult conversations. Juliana Casale Head of Marketing at Crazy Egg Learn to lead at scale and mobilize your employees as you transition your business from a View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Intervention Labor Global Events the 20 th Century Zeitgeist Demographics Demographics Technology Social Mores Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants... View Details

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

learning and governance process. Implications for organization and leadership development and corporate governance are discussed. Read the paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?chapterid=1937908&show=pdf Markets as Networks:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

Business School Case 706-052 In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for Philippine nurses and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2011 (Revised June 2012)
Case

The Big 3 Roar Back

By: William W. George

The "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were all headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Born between 1903 and 1928, they dominated the automobile industry in the U.S. for decades until they became complacent. In the 1970s they started losing share to... View Details

Keywords: Production; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan

January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Henry Luce and the American Century

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox

Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States