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  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

basic social capabilities are perceived to play a key role for the success of complex and information intensive organizations. It is unclear, however, whether the supply of social skills in the managerial labor market has been able to... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Waves in Ship Prices and Investment

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Samuel Hanson
  • 14 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford
  • 2009
  • Report

Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Less than a year after the first Nordic Globalization Barometer has been launched, the state of the world economy has changed dramatically. A deep financial crisis is taking its toll on investors, borrowers, and the financial institutions that serve them. A deep... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competitive Strategy; Scandinavia
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    When Do Stocks and Bonds Move Together, and Why Does it Matter?

    The co-movement of Treasury bonds and stocks is an important indicator for both policy makers and for long-term investors. A positive co-movement between nominal Treasury bonds and stocks, as in the 1980s, means that nominal bonds amplify the volatility of stock... View Details

    • 21 Aug 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

    hard to manage costs and shorten the supply chain. That was J.C. Penney historically. ''It was not clear why someone would go there in the face of all the other available options'' But over time, the retailer lost its identity. It was not... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

    compounded by the effects of climate change.” This past February, NPR offered additional explanations for Mexico City’s water crisis: “The reservoirs that supply around 20% of water to the city's 22 million residents are drying up. They... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    scaling up its capabilities to make decisions and solve problems in other areas of the business, such as marketing, store sales, and the supply chain. But when the time was right, this data-analytic approach would help dictate a variety... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 27 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

    Drivers on Interstate 25 in Colorado have been speculating about the fate of hundreds of Volkswagen cars sitting in a lot near Pikes Peak International Raceway. It’s one of 37 sites in the United States where the automaker is storing 300,000 diesel cars it recalled... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • May 2017 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Performance Evaluation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
    Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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    Overview

    Navid has worked with different organizations across various industries, from the Federal Reserve to medical device manufacturers, heavy construction equipment sellers, and B2B software providers, to assemble proprietary datasets in studying organizational buying.... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes

    By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
    Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Transition; Utilities Industry; Battery Industry
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    • January 2014 (Revised October 2014)
    • Case

    Andreessen Horowitz

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Liz Kind
    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm launched in 2009, has quickly broken into the VC industry's top ranks, in terms of its ability to invest in Silicon Valley's most promising startups. The case recounts the firm's history; describes its co-founders'... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Venture Capital; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Industry Structures; Financial Services Industry; California
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    • 17 Jun 2011
    • HBS Case

    KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

    should develop a national footprint—supported by a company-owned distribution system since third-party suppliers didn't exist—instead of growing in geographic chunks through franchising. Su sourced products from within China whenever possible. This was no easy feat... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
    • July 2010 (Revised June 2016)
    • Case

    Erik Peterson at Biometra (A)

    By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas DeLong and Jevan Soo
    Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a medical device company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Product Launch; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 14 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

    other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large disruptions in its View Details
    Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
    • 28 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

    1990s and rejuvenating its reform process, and the wealth accumulating among the diaspora, were the supply and demand side for getting the diaspora together with its home country. Q: How does entrepreneurship affect the playing field in... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

    often supplies the idea. You can tap a button to grab the “original sound” of someone else’s TikTok, record your response, and seconds later you have your own video. It doesn’t have to be particularly clever or funny or even look good... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld