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- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208108 Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-110 In October 2007, the British band Radiohead caused a stir when it announced it would allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
crime 2,000 Union Army troops arrive in Galveston, Texas to announce an executive decree that freed the 250,000 African American laborers still held in bondage by the Confederacy after the Civil War. The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
transportation infrastructure. In addition, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., announced a plan to rework the tax code and dedicate $126.5 billion to fund highway and infrastructure investment. Although the two... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
expectations of either Chinese or foreign observers when the reforms were announced three decades ago. One thinks only of what might have been, in the dark decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, since many of the basic elements of... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
took place at the Signature Conference. MedEXO Robotics won 2017 HBSAHK Startup of the Year, out of a field of 40 companies. Sophia, the company’s social humanoid robot, announced the win. MedEXO, which is creating wearable technology to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Choice." The author of three Times columns - "About New York," "Life in the 30s," and "Public and Private" - between 1981 and 1995, Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1992. Three years later, she surprised her readers and fellow journalists by View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
2018, the organization announced a new ethics policy, so Culver Humphrey came forward with her story once again. Leadership rebuffed her a second time, so she met with the Oregonian. Team members were stunned by what they read. For many,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707419 Lenovo: Building a Global Brand Harvard Business School Case 507-014 Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
drug dealers. But he also announced a nationwide education campaign, part of which would be “unsavory commercials” to “scare” kids away from using drugs. It’s a potential action that Langford—who was on a conference call with the White... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
company's efforts toward protecting human health, natural resources, and the global environment. As part of that effort, GM has now become the first major auto manufacturer in modern times to bring to market the first true electric vehicle. In January, the company... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Quelch and Rodriguez wrote a case in May about Philips, which started in 1891 as a light bulb manufacturer in the Netherlands and, more recently, has become a major manufacturer of medical devices and software sold primarily to hospitals. In June 2014, Philips View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
services, this month announced its participation on Dish Network's Web-based Sling Box service. Not every company is susceptible to decoupling, however. In some cases where it is too costly, labor intensive, or inconvenient for customers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary: They just... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
a particular task-for example, announcing a semiannual sale starting the following day. The other two types of ads focus on image, building up the perception of the brand rather than exhorting a consumer to purchase. Imagery-focused ads... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
It's no surprise that Harvard Business School professor Stuart C. Gilson gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up to the recently announced $11 billion US Airways/American Airlines merger. The deal, which came after American's parent company, AMR... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
stars. Announced actions against an Iowa dairy after illegal drug residues were found in the dairy's cows; a Tennessee company for selling a substance billed as both a preventative against skin cancer and a tanning agent; and a medical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
Congress and the next president of the United States will be under pressure to make major changes to U.S. corporate tax policy, the consequences of which could have significant impact on profit and competitiveness of American companies on the global stage. (Editor's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne