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26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

recession ends? Or are they developing coping mechanisms that will endure, especially if the recession is lengthy? What new products and services will consumers be open to embracing? If, as in the financial services category, consumer... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

03 Feb 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results

Keywords: by Robert L. Simons

March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs

Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Business Model; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Belgium; France; Sweden; United States; Europe

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Educators

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

the Internet, to what extent they can capitalize on these transformations remains an open question. HBS professor David Yoffie moderated the session on "The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the Future," with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2023
Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card, which explains how to treat work-life calibration as you would a financial portfolio, through concepts like diversification. “There’s a calculus of:... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

16 Feb 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products

14 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details

Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

to it." But common sense provided enough information to detect definite patterns. As the paper states, "Inventors with the last names Gupta or Desai are more likely to be Indian than they are to be Anglo-Saxon or Vietnamese." "You can View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

08 Oct 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Banking; Legal Services

10 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich

August 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya

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Educators

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13 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences

View Video TRANSCRIPT Robert D. Howe: The MS/MBA program is a dual degree program. So in two years, you'll earn an MBA from Harvard's Business School and a Master of Science in engineering from Harvard's Engineering School. The core of the curriculum is a set of five... View Details

16 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

of retail space. Mercadona believes it has a responsibility to select the highest-quality, most affordable products to "prescribe" to customers, an approach that may sound paternalistic but, in fact, is much appreciated by Mercadona's customers. "This... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

quickly as it began. "The offshoring of activities is predicated on a huge number of non-obvious, sensitive policy choices," Rivkin says, citing India's economic liberalization efforts of the early 1990s and the Chinese government's relatively recent decision to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

and similar. These stores had few customers and did little business, but were open long hours, often seven days and six nights. These stores were obviously short of help, shelves were poorly stocked. What carriages were on hand were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

the New York City Ballet. By 2002, when Levy took over, the ongoing $1.2 billion redevelopment project had "pitted [constituents] against one another in open warfare more reminiscent of the shoot-out at the OK Corral than of a night... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

agendas. Taking Bold Bets: Leadership and Challenges of Reinvention 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Livestreamed, Not Recorded Speaker: Ryan Raffaelli , Marvin Bower Associate Professor In this session, Professor Ryan Raffaelli will share insights from his last decade of... View Details

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