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16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

performance. "Frankly, it's very fuzzy," Soltes says. "What's material to you may not be material to me, and vice versa. If the CEO tells you he's skipping his family vacation for the first time in years, is that material or immaterial?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment plans, and customer service, all... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

customer at a time. And then—with her family and other colleagues' help—she created a global leader in the industry. Schultz did the same thing with Starbucks. So did Dell. And each stuck with the enterprise as it grew and changed. For... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 2025
Case

Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal

In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details

Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil

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Educators

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

that, few newspapers have the historical cachet of the Washington Post—and therefore more to lose from making the wrong call. So news of the Post's ownership changing hands from the Graham family to Amazon's Jeff Bezos—after seven... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

change he may need to continue into a second year. Yet the physical separation from his family had begun to take a toll. Had the executive done enough to institutionalize change or was it still too dependent on his personal relationships... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

collects revenue only after both the client and consumers are fully satisfied. R&D expenses could be just $1,000 for tweaking an existing flavor, but they could go as high as $300,000 for an entirely new family of flavors that require... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

theoretical investigation of open platform systems. To do this, we must first recognize that, although there is a strong family resemblance among all platform systems, there are different types of platforms, each with its own set of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2018
Supplement

Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal (B)

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti

Supplements the (A) case. Having successfully spearheaded relief work in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Foundation envisions creating a more comprehensive and sustainable development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates... View Details

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Purchase

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or decamped to a family retreat. And... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

coverage with tax-free contributions from employer-funded ICHRAs. This HRA-Public Option combination could reduce the premiums not only of the millions of insured SME employees and family members, but also those of the 3.4 million... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

going to get a sit-down with the CEO,” says Eugene F. Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on corporate misconduct and compliance systems. “So these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

example, the California-based Rogers Family Company exports coffee from its farm, Finca Peru Paris, and sells it at major retail outlets such as Costco stores on the west coast of the United States. Lurtz points out that the most... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

especially larger ones, have done so. Those that have done the heavy IT and organizational lifting, such as Walmart, reap serious dividends. "There's a tremendous gap between the most IT-savvy firms and the IT laggards," says McElheran, the Lumry View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

Wasserman says. "It's about choices .My research has shown that teams of friends and family cofounders have a higher tendency to blow up than teams of prior coworkers, but that doesn't mean you should never found with friends and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online support network of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

demands—adapting the technology they use, altering their daily schedules, the way they work, even the way they live their lives and interact with their families and friends—to be better able to meet the increased demands on their time.... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

co-worker; with 150, it can do better than a family member; and with 300, better than a spouse. But then came the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, when that firm got 250,000 Facebook users to voluntarily give them access to their personal data... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

companies." Kerr points to other factors beyond salary: "Younger immigrant workers are often more tied to the firm, are willing to work long hours, and often have fewer family commitments. Their salary may also be lower, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

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