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19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

open conversation about the issues that really mattered clarified the company's strategy and energized the organization. As Ludwig says, "Getting feedback from the employees was indispensable, and putting it into a strategic context... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

change the models that people create in their minds. We are doing that in the way we write cases, the way we present role models, the way we talk more frankly about business in the context of a life rather than business as a life,"... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

known as ‘reparations,’ ” he explains. “But I approach this with realistic expectations as policy analysis, not a cause. I’m attempting to correctly understand chronic racial inequality by putting it in a historical context and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

permeate everything we do. Can you talk about these initiatives in the context of the School's capital campaign? What kind of investment is required, and how much of it can be funded through the School's endowment? Our goal is $500... View Details

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

relational context of trust and facilitating learning from failures. Book: Enacting Our Field Author:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Nonprofit Management and Leadership (forthcoming). Abstract This keynote address, delivered to the Nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

upside down and might end up destroying it altogether. Some people even predicted that one huge trust would come to dominate the entire American economy. This may seem funny now, but in the context of the times it did not. At the turn of... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

Wal-Mart must decide whether to expand the retailer's selection of organic food. The decision is made in the context of wider attempts to move the giant retailer slightly upscale and to focus on environmental sustainability. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

Others pointed to classical Kantian ideas such as the pacifying effects of trade and that economic ties were a mechanism of security for China, the US, and other major economies. So, it is a great irony that now, in the context of China’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

decision, albeit an extreme one. The context for that incident between the two countries went back years and involved at least one previous shutdown over unpaid Ukrainian bills, as well as disputed pipeline fees, unsigned contracts, bad... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Energy; Utilities

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

taught for the first time in my Business, Government and International Economy (BGIE) class. My ability to provide historical context underlying some of the political challenges allowed my class to gain a better understanding of the case.... View Details

03 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Siblings at HBS: Katie and Tyler Harris

different? In many ways, our similarities and differences depend on the topic or context – sometimes we’re eerily similar and other times polar opposites. One of our biggest differences will become readily apparent as fall approaches.... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Gazprom Goes Global

recently produced a three-part case on Gazprom, says the 2006 Ukraine cutoff was in reality a business decision, albeit an extreme one. The context for that incident between the two countries went back years and involved at least one... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

Web

Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog

contexts including equity-investment analysis, IPOs, mergers, short selling opportunities, and hedge fund activist investing strategies. Over the course of the semester, several high-profile guest speakers, such as renowned CEOs and CFOs,... View Details

10 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis

Headquarters in New York for the 2023 Water Conference. The three-day summit was the first major UN conference on the topic since 1977, and it took place in the context of a newly released UNESCO report revealing that “26% of the world’s... View Details

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2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution | MBA

distinguish when speakers are expressing their own views or seeking to test their views against others, to capture all of the qualifications or nuance that speakers may have provided, or to fairly convey the full context necessary to... View Details

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

that empirical research has used social enterprise largely as a context for theory development, rather than deductively testing, and thus building upon, existing theories. The latter pattern is due largely to the absence of two key... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

see as key: efficiency and fairness. We approach the problem of designing objectives that account for the natural tension between efficiency and fairness in the context of a framework that captures a number of resource allocation problems... View Details