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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental performance. One such company,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
5,000 board members from around the world to find out. We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards. Although directors in certain industries are more cognizant of the threat of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
through cases, learning from industry leaders at conferences and case protagonists in class, and working abroad in FIELD 2. Having some distance from day-to-day work has also granted some much-appreciated time for reflection. This post... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
burn cash faster than they make it. But already successful pioneers such as eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! have transformed industry dynamics, opened new career aspirations, and become emblematic of a new workplace style. The wanna-dots are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
copyrighted content over peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry and to assess the viable business models for the industry in the future. Competitiveness: Business Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
hedge fund, an Amazon employee focused on retail data, and a forecaster at General Electric," says HBS David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti, who serves as faculty chair of the initiative and head of the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Résumé Of An Asian Tiger "Only 10 to 12 years ago, the Japanese model was celebrated and undeniable," Porter began. "There was almost an hysteria and fear of Japan." He described how the press in the late '80s and early '90s heralded Japan's View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
retail industry depends extensively on store liquidation, not only as a means for investors to recover capital from failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
behavior. Good examples of such companies are leaders in the consumer packaged-goods industry such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods—or retail organizations such as Wal-Mart and... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
well-established firms such as Walgreen's and Rite Aid. We also look at Amazon.com, another upstart that can claim to be "the biggest book store in the world." By looking closely at these companies' use of the Internet— which I believe is the analog to the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
therefore, to see how this law will be implemented in practice. In addition, there are likely to be some unintended negative consequences. Will the new derivatives rules pull in various industrial companies that will now have to use... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility and industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique called Design Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number of structural changes that forced an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
for consumer goods.” James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society , 1865—1920, 1990 52 Advertising reached consumers through wholesalers and retailers as well as traveling salesmen who operated as middlemen... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
government subsidies for banks, and support for entrepreneurial culture, affect this industry and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in emerging economies. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly