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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

increasingly call on businesses and their leaders to help find solutions—roles once viewed solely as governmental or nonprofit responsibilities. The pace of these evolving expectations has placed many business leaders in unfamiliar territory. They are expected to... View Details
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Match Your Own Price? Self-Matching as a Retailer's Multichannel Pricing Strategy

By: Pavel Kireyev, Vineet Kumar and Elie Ofek
Multichannel retailing has created several new strategic choices for firms. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a "self-matching policy." Self-matching allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and in-store prices... View Details
Keywords: Price Self-matching; Multichannel Retailing; Pricing Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Price; Distribution Channels; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-023.pdf Engaging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Harvard Business School

corporate philanthropy, and social marketing. His books include: Developing the Afro-American Economy ; Moving Ahead: Black Managers in American Business ; The Wealth of Races (Editor); and Soul in Management: How African-American View Details
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill write-offs. Those estimates often use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

will take for us to maintain leadership in the future. What the USTR list did highlight for me is the extent to which supply chains have globalized and intertwined across almost every industrial sector. That... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a strong learning effect whereby... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

workers and managers in what to expect, 4) set up a support system, 5) tailor methods for managing careers, 6) scale the program, 7) mainstream the program. The work for View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

demonstrates the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of an intervention even without perfectly predicting a firm’s response still has enormous value for setting policy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55959 2019 The Oxford Handbook of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

chief supply-chain management officer, chief human resources officer, and CEO. It offers a road map for ambitious managers who want to know which skills they should focus on developing in order to rise up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

frontline employees' experience with internal supply chain problems. However, extensive research has established that employees rarely speak up to managers about problems. They... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • February 2018
  • Article

Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of Negative News: The Moderating Role of Experience

By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and F. Gino
Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their beliefs, individuals may persevere in their prior beliefs. In... View Details
Keywords: Information; Announcements; Service Operations; Decision Making; Medical Specialties; Experience and Expertise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2021 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Kermit PPI

By: Kyle Myers, Matt Grennan and Sarah Mehta
Launched in 2011, Kermit PPI helped hospitals save money on expensive orthopedic implants and devices by enabling them to renegotiate their contracts with device manufacturers and better monitor compliance. In 2021, as they look to grow, they are entertaining two... View Details
Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Contracts; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Maryland
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  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

  PublicationsTechnology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders Authors:Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

illustration of first-mover advantages. From its beginning in 1914, it created an integrated learning base to commercialize a new data processing punched-card technology. By the 1920s, its initial factory in New York and a new one in Europe were View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 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 to enhance performance and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne