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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Below are outtakes from the faculty roundtable discussion on the crisis in corporate America (“Bad Times for Business,” December 2002). For more information about the research and academic activities of the roundtable participants, or any... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1997 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Intel Corporation: 1968-1997

By: Gary P. Pisano, David J. Collis and Peter K. Botticelli
Traces Intel's history and strategy from 1968 to 1997. Examines the company's decision to exit DRAMS and its entry into microprocessors. Focuses on how the company managed to achieve and sustain its competitive advantage in microprocessors, and the threats it faces in... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Information Infrastructure; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Technology Industry
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  • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

branch dominates? Does this structure preclude us from ever seeing the kind of reform you advocate? A: We strongly believe in the importance of the checks and balances, particularly as a means of curbing corruption. But inefficiencies are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

stating company action taken to prepare for the expected events." The latter would certainly encourage, perhaps at a substantial cost, what Conway proposes, as we've seen with recent legislative and regulatory rulings on corporate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

in local markets, to increase bargaining power, capturing patients, restricting choices and services, and when all else fails, taking legal action. This type of competition has resulted in large, undifferentiated health plans and provider... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Porter, Director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School: I'd like to focus though, just to be brief here, on really some of the main findings on the microeconomic and corporate side of the equation,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

A Silent Workplace Crisis

Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details
Keywords: Janet Simpson Benvenuti; caregiving; aging; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

research is underway on several issues. To what degree are corporate structure and strong unit autonomy incompatible? How much strong national leadership is required to complement local program... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Ruback, Baker Foundation Professor, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus Anthem Press Private Equity is an advanced corporate finance book that integrates a range of topics from a... View Details
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

speak to that. Weinzierl: It is a proposal we could have expected from any Republican president—it doesn't feel like a Trump proposal in any unusual sense to me. In terms of the changes to the personal rate structure and some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

What happens when giant multinational corporations acquire relatively small companies that enjoy iconic status as socially progressive brands? According to recent research out of Harvard Business School, such marriages can be good for... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Aug 2024
  • HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

Management Unit, is founder and managing partner of the investment management company Alignvest Management Corporation and founding chairman of the NEXT Canada network of entrepreneurs and investors. He says many hopeful entrepreneurs can... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the large supply shocks associated with changes in the maturity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

encourage partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients' increasingly global and complex needs. In 2007, under Smith's leadership, the partnership agreed to implement holistic change, which included shifting from geographical to sector View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

  PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Do You Speak Business?

in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my boss, in which... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading behavior in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne