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- February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Software; Information Technology Industry; China
Khanna, Tarun. "Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993." Harvard Business School Case 795-115, February 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- 05 Oct 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
How the Clean Network Changed the Future of Global Technology Competition
Keywords: Re: Meg Rithmire
- 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
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Kathleen McGinn, and Deborah Kolb. "An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-051, November 2012. (Work in progress for requested submission, Research in Organizational Behavior.)
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
present, the business of stem cells remains a fledgling enterprise. Spar says that figures for 2003 reveal that only ten U.S. private-sector firms were actively involved in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies
We study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that constrain or enable these responses, and examine how the firms’ responses affect their performance. Our empirical context is... View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, and an adviser on the exhibit. "Many firms competed for the attention and affection View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Regulation on Strategic Positioning: Self-Regulation in the RTE Cereal Industry
- 2010
- Working Paper
Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions
By: Alvin E. Roth
This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Market Timing; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Competitive Strategy
Roth, Alvin E. "Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16556, November 2010.
- November 2007
- Article
The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship
By: Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas
We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Business Model; Commercialization; Adoption; Adaptation; Product; Civil Society or Community
Shah, Sonali K., and Mary Tripsas. "The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1, nos. 1-2 (November 2007): 123–140.
- 2022
- White Paper
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement
By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
Sigelman, Matt, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon. "The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement." White Paper, Burning Glass Institute, October 2022 (A joint project with Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work and Schultz Family Foundation.)
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
you're trying to achieve," he states. "That's affected by two things: your theory of change and your operational strategy." A theory of change is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
summer, others will just use it as a satellite office for a day or two. Assistant Professor Jeffrey L. Bradach, for example, is currently studying the use of temporary personnel as high-level employees, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Research Summary
The Strategic and Performance Consequences of CEO Succession
By: Rakesh Khurana
The argument of this paper (with Nitin Nohria) is that research on executive turnover treats the departures of predecessors and the origin of successors as independent events. This approach has led to mixed empirical findings with respect to measuring the effects of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth
- Article
The Social Contract Model of Corporate Purpose and Responsibility
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Of the many developments in business ethics that Thomas Donaldson has helped pioneer, one is the application of social contract theory to address questions about the responsibilities of business actors. In Corporations and Morality, Donaldson develops one of the... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-he. "The Social Contract Model of Corporate Purpose and Responsibility." Business Ethics Quarterly 25, no. 4 (October 2015): 433–460. (DOI: 10.1017/beq.2016.1.)
- 17 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions
Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth