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Teams | New Venture Competition
through information justice Samraj Shiva Velingker (MBA 2025) Turning money management into an engaging adventure game for overwhelmed students Sante Barbara Regis (MBA 2026) Mirelle Pereira Bruno Kunzler Victoria Rentrop Revolutionizing... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
Management consulting doesn’t lend itself to a balanced diet. Always on the go for her projects at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) would grab whatever packaged food appeared healthiest to her. For a long time, she sought low-calorie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
deficits," says the genial second-year student. As president of the Student Association (SA), one of Mitchell's primary tasks was to bring concessions - student-run businesses offering goods and services such as stationery supplies and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital across markets. Upon the arrival of a large supply shock, prices of risk in the directly impacted asset class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
the most? I’ve taken different skills from different places. I spent some time at a small entrepreneurial venture in Dallas, where I had hands-on experience in manufacturing, supply chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel... View Details
- January 8, 2010
- Other Article
Multinational Firms, Agglomeration, and Global Networks
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
Agglomeration effects are important but difficult to measure. This column uses a new database with precise geographical information to investigate the locational interdependence of multinational firms. Knowledge spillovers and capital- and labour-market externalities... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Business Subsidiaries; Industry Clusters; Multinational Firms and Management; Network Effects
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Multinational Firms, Agglomeration, and Global Networks." Vox, CEPR Policy Portal (January 8, 2010).
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard of in a sector in which the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
and far less power and fresh water than other methods of extraction, Lithios is unlocking a responsible, domestic supply chain of one of the most critical raw materials for the energy transition. Brett's role prior to HBS was an Engineer... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
structures in the European Union and Japan. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707471 McDonald's Corp.: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior View Details
- July 2016
- Supplement
The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Law; Antitrust; EC Regulation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Multinational Firms and Management; International Relations; Laws and Statutes; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Technology Industry; European Union; United States
Goldberg, Lena G. "The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 317-010, July 2016.
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Communist Party (CCP) has used the land supply as a key instrument of macro-economic regulation. The article draws on local and central documents to track, first, how, during the 1990s, land became the CCP's central means of macroeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2023
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai
Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Product Positioning; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China
Shih, Willy, and Nancy Dai. "From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 624-056, November 2023.
- March – April 2009
- Article
Market Research and Innovation Strategy in a Duopoly
By: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek
We model a duopoly in which ex-ante identical firms must decide where to direct their innovation efforts. The firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Innovation and Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy
Lauga, Dominique, and Elie Ofek. "Market Research and Innovation Strategy in a Duopoly." Marketing Science 28, no. 2 (March–April 2009): 373–396.
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2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Supply Chain Management Kris Ferreira Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Ananth Raman Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Transforming Health Care Delivery (also listed under Accounting & Management) Susanna Gallani Robert... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
to be like this. About twenty years ago, managed care was widely viewed as the silver bullet that would curb cost increases while ensuring patients good and convenient treatment. But managed care has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
retaining and hiring talent in the tech industry. Companies have reached a point where they must all become tech companies to keep up with the rise of the digital economy, and talent demands continue to outpace the supply of talent... View Details