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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
operations. And through Arbitrage, they exploit disparities between national or regional markets, often by locating different parts of the supply chain in different places—for instance, call centers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52469 2017 Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
response to changes in global supply and to better meet the needs of a new multi-channel retail environment. The case, set in late 2013, covers the development of Tesco Group Food and identifies future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
Global Leadership, have a better strategy in mind for leaders. In their essay, "Value Creation: The New Millenium Management Manifesto," they make the case that leadership for the 21st century demands that companies forge a different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43743 How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Christopher Palmer Abstract—Despite massive large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) by central banks around the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
was led by Vehbi's son Rahmi followed by his grandson Mustafa. It explores both the professionalization of the management and a radical restructuring of the business portfolio as the group refocused on five core sectors. The case also examines the start of the group's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
The debate has gotten to the point where neither side is willing to cede ground." The Supply Side Of Innovation Kerr's desire for a systematic study of the H-1B program resulted in the paper The Supply Side... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry Shere pointed out, "attempts... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2025
- Supplement
ZEISS: Commercializing Science
By: Maria P. Roche and Richie Zitomer
Spreadsheet Supplement for HBS Case No. 725-359. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
- January 2025
- Teaching Note
Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service
By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Adoption; Strategy; Performance Productivity; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Business Model; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Profit; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Germany; Europe
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national banks across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
regulations, it's fewer. Is It Time to Break Up Amazon, Facebook, or Google?Craig Parietti & PartnersCraig comments: The concept of US antitrust is outdated. We are now a global economy. So, if we break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
their reforms are the common goals of reducing bureaucracy, streamlining decision making, and, most importantly, creating a unified culture that, to date, the company has been missing. CEO Pedro Faria believes a strong culture, in which both BRF employees and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Started with a small intimate team in London, the firm had merged with a continental PE firm and was successful, with an increased focus on Asia deals. After a long day of global partner meetings behind them, a group of Greighton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne