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15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

itemizes what it spends on cotton, cutting, sewing, dyeing, finishing, and transporting each shirt, consumers become more attracted to the brand and more likely to purchase. “By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain everything you did for the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

September 2007 (Revised September 2010)
Case

ValueAct: Shareholder in the Boardroom

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak

ValueAct, a San Francisco investment firm, makes an investment in PerSe Technologies. The partners of ValueAct build relationships with the PerSe board and management. Eventually ValueAct is given a seat on the PerSe board and is able to influence a significant imprint... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Profile

Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

says Tuce, “going from a huge company to one with just thirteen shops. You can see how everything is related: marketing, operations, government relations, finance.” Ultimately, Tuce’s team advised the stand operator, based on numerous... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

connection to practice—were established during his tenure. He shaped the School in profound and long-lasting ways.” The son of a traveling dentist, Donham (AB 1898, LLB 1901) majored in government at Harvard College, where he graduated... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that, “It appears to me that our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

01 Jun 2017
News

Ask the Expert: On the Fly

couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept government and third-party faculty... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
News

Tickling the Ivories

producer (sex, lies, and videotape), and is a prolific author. Founder and chairman of the San Francisco–based Institute for Large Scale Innovation, he advises corporations and governments on innovation, organizational transformation, and... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

17 Jun 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience

hosted a panel and networking reception during San Francisco Climate Week at the University Club of San Francisco focused on how communities, businesses, and governments can respond to climate-driven disasters through innovative financial... View Details

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

our series, Mills will explore efforts by the federal government to incentivize and increase small business lending during the recession and recovery. Other Articles In This Series Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Dec 2000
News

Books

and Privatization, by Willis Emmons, explores the impact of deregulation and privatization on company strategy in industries worldwide and shows how these dynamic processes shape the critical evolving relationship, or bargain, between View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

13 May 2014
News

Harvard Business School Announces 2014 Leadership Fellows

Keywords: Leadership Fellows; Government; Government; Government; Government

01 Dec 2006
News

Forestalling Terror

Michael Roberto and published this year, is “Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11.” The case plumbs the background of what will likely be remembered as one of the most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country’s View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Educational Services; Educational Services

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

state-by-state basis, and many have funds or other programs in place that could help policyholders get some form of reimbursement. "But these account for only a small part of the risk; the rest is kind of gray," says Froot. "We don't know what would... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

June 1999 (Revised March 2001)
Case

New Business Investment Company: October 1997

By: Josh Lerner, Lee Branstetter and Takeshi Nakabayashi

A quasi-government organization seeks to stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan by making venture capital investments. The organization of the fund, identification of transactions, and oversight of portfolio firms pose considerable challenges. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry; Japan

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