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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
themselves looking to economize, and tend to pause their spending. The University has already implemented a faculty and staff hiring pause and all schools have announced salary freezes. We’ve had to look carefully at additional ways to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
didn’t say by how much. There was a one-month period when our customers were “pantry loading” because they thought prices would go up significantly. Instead, we held a press conference in our store and announced that the highest-priced... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
commercial radio and, after World War II, commercial television enabled marketers to drive home the benefits of their national brands and to announce quickly the launch of new products and services to a nationwide audience. The... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
opened my eyes to what one could do.” Straight shooter: “My first assignment at Xerox was to help take the company into China. When the chairman announced in the press what we were doing, I chastised him and said that was not something he... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
final package of specific recommendations. In March, they turned it over on schedule to the new government. Just a month or two later, Aung San Suu Kyi's new government announced the formation of a new presidential council with equal... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
every day after that, Enan joined millions of fellow Egyptians in Tahrir Square. On February 11, after 30 years in office, then-president Hosni Mubarak announced he would step down. It was an exciting, if unsettled, time. "Transition is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
structures underpinning the process of globalization. Harvard Business School Case 517-083 CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global In January of 2017, CJ Entertainment & Media (E&M) proudly announced that it will be holding its first ever... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
as BWCs, and two others were set to be announced in the fall. Dow senior executives believed that Dow was creating shared value through its BWC products. As management began drafting the company's sustainability plan for 2015 and beyond,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Mosaic of Different Realities' A day after his inauguration as President of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto announced a Pact for Mexico—a slate of institutional reforms for education, energy, fiscal policy, telecommunications, banking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
negatively affected compared to external-finance-dependent firms, and capital controls on equity have a more negative announcement effect than those on debt. Real investment falls following the controls. Overall, the results suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Acquisition of Abbey: Banking Across Borders Harvard Business School Case 707-485 Banco Santander, Spain's largest commercial bank, announced in July 2004 the acquisition of Abbey National Bank, the fifth largest U.K. commercial bank.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Within—Almost 90% of McDonald’s in the US are owned and operated by franchisees. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) runs the rest. Hear from Kristy Cunningham on the all-day breakfast initiative on the Skydeck podcast Five days after the call, Thompson View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
refurbished parts was inaccurate and resulted in profits being shifted from one segment to another. Prior to his report to the SEC, Mayhem had reported his concerns to his managers and to the company’s internal compliance hotline. At about the same time, IGT View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
he had to handle the situation carefully so the company wouldn't set a precedent, and he was able to announce on Twitter that he had solved the student's problem. "We got 30 million impressions in two days," he said. "How much advertising... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Daniel B. Bergstresser, and Guhan Subramanian Abstract We use the SEC's unexpected announcement on October 4, 2010 that it would significantly delay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
improving inventory management for its network of small and large retailers. Set just after the announcement of the Adidas-Reebok transaction in 2005, with New Balance having recently initiated a companywide effort to improve operational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars worldwide this year, while money-losing GM will cut production (after manufacturing an estimated 9.08 million vehicles in 2005). Increasingly, the glory days... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
announced a small profit. Do you think this is giving heart to other online businesses? A: Priceline failed in the grocery business. But I'm not sure I would develop much out of that [the profit]. There are plenty of profitable online... View Details