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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “The dramatic expansions in population, wealth, income, and territory that characterized the United States View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

  "Capitalism came in the first ships." —Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past No nation has been more market-oriented in its origins and subsequent history than the United View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • Web

Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

Brazil, Russia, India, and China, in today’s “frontier” markets that are only beginning to attract the attention of mainstream investors, and some are purposefully historical View Details
  • November 2019 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Russia: A Drama In Three Acts

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu
The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, struggled to reestablish central authority while also seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Policy Change; Policy Making; Economic Systems; Economics; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Non-Renewable Energy; Governance; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Policy; Business History; Lawfulness; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Change Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Russia; Moscow
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  • January 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Corporate Renewal in America

By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean
Discusses various macroeconomic, regulatory, technological, and financial forces that led to increased corporate restructuring in the United States beginning in the mid-1980s. The U.S. financial system is often viewed as the most developed in the world and a model for... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Restructuring; Markets; Private Sector; Corporate Finance; Germany; Japan; United States
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  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization, has increasingly influenced the functioning of nation states to the detriment of labor and society. He argues for a kind of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Road Work

world where business content and financial products and services will be integrated seamlessly into the member experience—all driven by unique user data and machine learning models.”It’s a development that ties View Details
Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

reformers and lenders cooperated to draft the Uniform Small Loan Law, implemented in twenty-five states by the 1930s. Small lenders moved their... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

Summing Up When Is It In An Employer's Self-Interest to Voluntarily Raise All Wages? A laissez-faire approach to fixing labor market inequality has widespread appeal, judging by responses to this month's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • June 2012 (Revised October 2012)
  • Teaching Note

TripAdvisor (TN)

By: Sunil Gupta
By 2010, TripAdvisor (TA) was the largest travel site in the world operating in 24 countries and 16 languages, with listings for 455,000 hotels, 92,000 attractions and 564,000 restaurants in over 71,000 destinations worldwide. It had over 40 million reviews from 35... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Digital Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; China; United States
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  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 17 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation
  • December 2013
  • Case

Grupo Beta San Miguel

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on one of the state-owned sugar mills slated for... View Details
Keywords: Mexico; Jose Pinto; Beta San Miguel; Polycrom; Sugar; World Sugar Trade; NAFTA; Strategy; Trade; Futures and Commodity Futures; Agribusiness; Price; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico; United States; North America
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  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

individuals displaced by natural disasters could surge to 1.2 billion by 2050, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace. Beyond the United States and France, the world witnessed the United... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • February 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Mohamed Azab and Seha Capital

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Sarah McAra
In January 2011, Mohamed Azab, founder and CEO of health care investment firm Seha Capital, made his first health care investment in Hassab Labs, a diagnostic lab in Alexandria, Egypt. Weeks later, a revolution erupted across the country as the Arab Spring swept... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health; Pan-Africa; Health Care Investment; Financing; Developing World; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Financing and Loans; Developing Countries and Economies; Egypt; Africa
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  • October 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Century Bank: Closing Time?

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Bill Kwon
Barry Sloane, second-generation Chairman, President, and CEO of his family’s bank, Century Bank, weighed whether to sell to Eastern Bank. As a small regional bank, Century faced a number of challenging trends, such as digitization and market share decline in the coming... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Business Exit; Banking; Family; Massachusetts; Boston; United States; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Decision Making; Finance; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty; Emotions; Banking Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States
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  • 12 Jun 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

University Professor, Harvard University In this keynote address, former Harvard president Lawrence Summers shared his view of the challenges facing America at a time of financial and economic turmoil, and the opportunities they present.... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders

out of Liswood's own initiative - a 1993 journey around the world in which she documented, in video and book form, discussions with fifteen of these presidents and prime... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 21 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio; Legal Services
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

shareholders in both state and private enterprises." No Single Asian Market Mark Newman, vice president and CFO for GM Shanghai, the largest Sino-U.S. joint venture,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna