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- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
never happened in Japan. However, the average Japanese company is still only taking baby steps in these directions. What I want to get across is that we are not advocating the wholesale adoption by Japan of the Western system. While Japan...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
tight security worldwide. There could be no soft targets anywhere. That was the wake-up call.” Bonnie Rubenstein Cohen (MBA ’67) grew up in the blue-collar “Shoe City” of Brockton, Massachusetts. Her father, Harold Rubenstein (MBA ’40), ran a View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
leadership, strategy, people management, operating metrics, and relationships with external constituencies. As a result, they picked up on problems Kaufman might not have noticed, provided counsel that made him a stronger leader—and avoided disasters along the way....
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
“I think there is a growing consciousness around some of the centers of capitalism, but I don’t think it’s a wholesale movement,” says Chorengel. “As much as there is a tremendous amount of interest in impact investing, the floodgates...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
find it in Ruth M. Owades's (MBA '75) Calyx & Corolla catalogue. Since 1989, Owades has been offering American consumers mail-order cut flowers and plants, FedExed directly from the grower. Eliminating wholesalers and distributors clips a...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
public documents. More generally, a wholesale revisiting of the rationale for departing from conformity in the reporting of book and tax income seems long overdue. Given that financial report accounting has evolved over the years while...
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by Ann Cullen
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
health condition, provided the same compassion and support that somebody suffering from cancer has. So really, it's a wholesale change from thinking about mental health as a weakness and as a problem. To thinking not only about it as...
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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
distributed their products through company-owned salons. Estée decided to focus her efforts on premium department stores. Estée had spent most of her adult life marketing directly to consumers. But in the late 1940s she and her husband began to envision the family...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-446 IC Group A/S IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
pineboards and department stores to follow these guidelines or face being blacklisted. At one meeting, Gleason confronted a wholesaler who was selling below cost. She was initially dismissed as being “hysterical,” as trade journals...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
of Charleston, South Carolina, dated March 11, 1856. (Frequent abbreviations are used in the reports; subsequent quotes have been translated for clarity.) Three months later: “In business a long time; doing a very extensive business View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
appropriate. That's one pole of the continuum. At the other pole, you have people who really believe there's something extremely wrong with the barrel. Thus it's not just a matter of a few bad apples; what we really need is a wholesale...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
compelling story or parable, I hope to capture the students’ hearts, their attention. I want to pull them into the experience by painting a picture to which they can relate. When I teach a case like “C&S Grocers,” a story about the dramatic growth of a View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
hockey-stick returns. “We believe that in every technological disruption you have to have hand-in-hand capital model disruption and business model disruption because you don’t reinvent an industry unless all of those things coalesce. This is the View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
corruption. But a wholesale change to the market, designed under reformist President Obasanjo and pushed forward by President Jonathan, promised greater efficiencies and investment guided by private-sector principles including widespread...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
managerialism, do business schools retain any genuine academic or societal mission? Having participated, inadvertently or not, in the wholesale discrediting of American management that flowered during the rise of investor capitalism in...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Administration Harper Business Rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by the pandemic have accelerated the transition to remote work, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in mere weeks and...
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