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28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming, just-in-time manufacturing, single-source suppliers, and global... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

19 Feb 2013
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Can Harvard Women Have It All?

10 Sep 2014
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“An Economy Doing Half Its Job”

14 Jun 2013
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Nicaragua Approves Building Its Own Canal

30 Jan 2009
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What’s It Worth to You?

was leading a once-mighty firm into bankruptcy. Markets don’t always get it right, we now know. Nor do company boards when they determine CEO compensation, as HBS professors such as Jay Lorsch, George Baker, Brian Hall, Rakesh Khurana,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out

percent is spent on labor. Those factors inspired Andersen to found Augean Robotics (AGR), makers of an autonomous farm robot called Burro, which has the carrying capacity of a sure-footed donkey and the smarts of a deep-learning computer that allow View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

01 Jun 2000
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Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

initially islands, and we started to get good at interconnecting them (outside universities and research labs) only about ten to twelve years ago," writes McAfee. "We've become a lot better at it over the past five years, with the... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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A Book by Its Cover

Courtesy Harlequin Packaging and branding fantasy as though it were detergent, one-time self-described Procter & Gamble “soap salesman” Larry Heisey (MBA ’54) “turned Harlequin from a niche purveyor of romance novels into a global giant,... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This... View Details

September 2021
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Italy - 'Whatever It Takes'

By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Dante Roscini and Cecile Gambardella

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Expressive Voting and Its Costs

By: Vincent Pons, Clémence Tricaud and Vestal McIntyre

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March 2006
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How Does IT Matter? (FSS)

By: Andrew P. McAfee

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04 Feb 2007
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Call It the 'Andy Amendment'

15 Aug 2019
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WeWork unveils its IPO prospectus

December 2015
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Control the Negotiation Before It Begins

By: Deepak Malhotra

Countless books and articles offer advice on avoiding missteps at the bargaining table. But some of the costliest mistakes take place before negotiators sit down to discuss the substance of the deal. That's because they often take for granted that if they bring a lot... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Preparation

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01 Jun 2005
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Contrarian and Proud of It

“That concern creates opportunity.” Rogers particularly likes stocks with high dividends and low price-earnings ratios. A patient investor, he typically holds on to stocks for three to six years. Lately, he has branched out to add growth stocks to the fund’s portfolio.... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged

Villa Victoria examines how of a group of low-income Puerto Rican migrants with little formal education living in a Boston enclave resisted the efforts of the city to relocate them in the name of "urban renewal." After a successful grassroots movement, the... View Details

13 Mar 2013
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Harvard poll: U.S. losing its zeal

August 2010 (Revised December 2010)
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Malcolm Life Enhances Its Variable Annuities

By: Robert C. Pozen and David J. Pearlman

The case involves an insurance CEO choosing between different designs for a variable annuity product in light of hedging, marketing, and pricing issues. The case provides students with background on the economics and regulation of life insurance and variable annuities.... View Details

Keywords: Annuities; Insurance; Investment Return; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Design; Insurance Industry; United States

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