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  • 21 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

Like investing in a mansion when the real-estate market is at its peak, buying a dry bulk ship in a boom time is a terrible long-term investment, according to new research that predicts cycles in the shipping industry. The contrarian... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation
  • February 2023
  • Article

Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times

By: Christine L. Exley, Nils H. Lehr and Stephen J. Terry
Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive U.S. nonprofit data drawn from millions of tax returns, that the public's... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business Cycles; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • January 1988 (Revised January 1997)
  • Case

Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)

By: David A. Garvin
Describes a comprehensive manufacturing strategy designed to reduce substantially the cycle time of orders (i.e. the time between the placement of an order by a customer and its delivery to the customer). To launch the strategy Digital has adopted manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Information; Time Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 07 Jul 2015
  • News

What Makes You So Special?

    Debora L. Spar

    Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals
    • 08 Sep 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Model of Credit Market Sentiment

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Lawrence J. Jin; Financial Services
    • 2001
    • Case

    Analog Devices (B)

    By: Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble and Jesse Johnson
    In 2000, ADI posted an unprecedented 78 percent growth rate. Their participation was growing in new consumer markets (electronics and communications) with shorter life cycles and high volatility. ADI had to rethink their scorecard for more dynamic environments. View Details
    Keywords: Adaptation; Business Strategy
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      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

      Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry
      • September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
      • Case

      Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

      By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts
      The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business... View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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      • 29 Sep 2020
      • News

      Do debates matter? Do they change minds about elections? Here’s what the data say

      • 14 Dec 2021
      • News

      Red Light, Green Light

        James L. Heskett

        James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

        • February 2008 (Revised December 2023)
        • Case

        Digital Music: From MP3 to Streaming

        By: Willy Shih
        The emergence of the MP3 file-based music format not only disrupted the market for portable audio players, it also impacted the business models of major record labels. Modularity, and the commoditization spillover enabled by modularity in the personal computer... View Details
        Keywords: Recording; Digital Devices; Digital Media; Digital Music; Digital; Digital Economics; Consumer Electronics; Customer Value and Value Chain; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Music Industry; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
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          Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

          Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship explores the exciting world of active investing and lays out in a clear and readily accessible way their key features, ways of doing business and likely evolution. The book follows the... View Details
          • TeachingInterests

          Scaling Ventures, HBS Online

          By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
          This course is for startup founders and senior leaders who have achieved product-market fit and now need to successfully guide their company through cycles of rapid growth and organizational change. Topics include optimal growth rate, recruiting and motivating... View Details
          • June 1992 (Revised March 1993)
          • Case

          Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990

          By: Timothy A. Luehrman
          The CFO of Fleetwood Enterprises is considering whether to recommend a large share repurchase to the board of directors. Fleetwood's core businesses, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles, are very sensitive to business cycles and oil prices. Following Iraq's... View Details
          Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital Structure; Stock Shares; Price; Crisis Management; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Iraq; Kuwait
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          • 2012
          • Working Paper

          An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

          By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb
          We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details
          Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry
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          • 07 Dec 2011
          • News

          Cautious capitalism

          • May 2024
          • Article

          Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries

          By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
          Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Markets; Networks; Investment Return; Business Cycles
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          • May 2021 (Revised July 2021)
          • Case

          Coats: Supply Chain Challenges

          By: Willy C. Shih and Adina Wong
          Coats, the largest thread maker in the world, transformed its business to digital colour measurement so that it could respond better to customer demand in the garment industry for rapid product cycles and more fragmented colour choices. Its embrace of digital colour... View Details
          Keywords: Inventory Management; Supply Chains; Digital; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia
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