Publications

02 May 2023
HBS Seminar

Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School

November 1995
Case

First Pacific Company Limited: From Letters of Credit to Personal Communications Networks

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

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2015
Chapter

Communicating Statistics in the Context of Banking Union – A Macro User's Perspective

By: Jan Kozak and Huw Pill

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fall 2006
Article

Business and Low-Income Sectors: Finding a New Weapon to Attack Poverty

By: James E. Austin and Michael Chu

Keywords: Poverty; Business Ventures

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November 2000 (Revised June 2001)
Case

Ventro: Builder of B2B Businesses

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura

Enables a thorough analysis of Ventro (formerly known as Chemdex), which builds and operates multiple B2B marketplace companies. Examines Ventro's business model and strategy as well as the company's operating, technical, and management expertise. Part of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Management; Business or Company Management; SWOT Analysis; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry

Research Summary

Game Theory for Business Strategy

Game theory--the mathematical study of strategic interactions--came of age, in a sense, when three of the field's pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. Yet despite the development of the theory and the widespread use of game-theoretic jargon in... View Details

Power, For All: How it Really Works and Why it's Everyone's Business

Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratized vision of power. While hierarchies tend to stay in place because power is often sticky, by agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, they show how those with less power can challenge established... View Details

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Valuation of Business Reorganizations

Business reorganization transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs, are often initiated based on the premise of value creation for shareholders. However, is this premise true, especially in the recent data? Due to the growing share of intangibles... View Details

7 Aug 2008
Conference Presentation

Bringing the Individual and Community Levels Back in Institutional Theory, PDW Session on "Institutions Across Social Spheres: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Research and Conceptualization

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Theory

08 Dec 2015
News

Treat Employees Like Business Owners

11 Nov 2014
News

Accenture, Burning Glass and Harvard Business School Identify ‘Middle-Skills’ Jobs Critical to U.S. Competitiveness

March 2014
Case

Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

Considers the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The case opens two years later in July 2013 when Sam McKay, the chief executive officer, on a visit... View Details

Keywords: Australia; China; Environmental Strategies; Green Business; Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China; Australia; United States

05 Feb 2013
News

The Evolving Role of Business

24 Mar 2023
HBS Seminar

Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

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Harvard Business School

Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit AGENTS OF CHANGE: A REVIEW OF HBS-AFFILIATED THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ON RACE AND BLACK BUSINESS LEADERSHIP Student Pioneers The Value of View Details

1995
Article

South Shore Bank: Is It the Model of Success for Community Development Banks?

By: B. C. Esty

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Success; Banking Industry

March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney

Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States