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    Ashish Nanda

    Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
    • 30 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30

    theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Jun 2016
    • News

    Again in a Great City

    thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
    Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
    • Article

    Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Economic Systems; Transformation
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    • 24 Nov 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

    For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
    • 22 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 22, 2008

    I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 1999
    • News

    The Way You See It

    single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.
    • July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
    • Case

    Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed
    This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details
    Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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      Caroline M. Elkins

      Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

      • June 2022
      • Case

      Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace

      By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Susan J. Winterberg
      In 2015, the top management of French tire-maker Michelin, was evaluating Michelin’s approach to divesting its rubber plantations ten years after incorporating a novel strategy.
      In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit... View Details
      Keywords: Divestment; Supply Chain Management; Natural Resources; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Rubber Industry; Auto Industry; Brazil; France
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        Rajiv Lal

        Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

        • August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
        • Supplement

        Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)

        By: Willy Shih

        This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details

        Keywords: Innovation; Exploration; Dominant Design; Business Growth and Maturation; Business History; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Design; Product Development; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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        • December 2003
        • Case

        Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc.

        Henry Hephaestus founded Hephaestus, Inc. in 1895. Its first product was a tapered roller bearing for use with horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It reduced friction on the axle and reduced the force necessary to move a heavy load, thereby enabling one horse to do the... View Details
        Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry
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        • 01 Sep 2018
        • News

        After the Fall

        beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices fell View Details
        Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
        • July/September 2005
        • Article

        Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale

        By: Rawi Abdelal
        This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details
        Keywords: Policy; International Finance; Globalization; France; European Union
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        Marketing - Doctoral

        field exam, and then another three years on dissertation research and writing. The Marketing program draws on computer science, economics, behavioral science, and psychological methods to focus on marketing problems faced by the firm and... View Details

          Steven C. Wheelwright

          Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

          Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

          • 26 Feb 2008
          • First Look

          First Look: February 26, 2008

          order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal, 2005). We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 20% depending on the depth of promotion. But there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 01 Sep 2022
          • What Do You Think?

          Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

          (iStockphoto/AvigatorPhotographer) Recently there has been talk, but no action, about eliminating some or all of the tariffs on Chinese imports that were instituted by the Trump administration. The debate involves salient arguments on... View Details
          Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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          dollarDEX (1998-2007)

          Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

          One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details