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- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Summing Up Basic conclusions that can be drawn from responses to this month's column are that it may or may not be useful to try to legislate accounting transparency. But such efforts address symptoms, not causes, of behaviors leading to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
first flocked to the area in the 1940s and worked together to build the entertainment hub it is today: a destination for gambling, trade shows, comedy, music, and some of the finest restaurants in the... View Details
- December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Olam International
By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore
Bell, David E., and Mary Shelman. "Olam International." Harvard Business School Case 509-002, December 2008. (Revised February 2017.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the US workforce. The case for special treatment That said, there are some compelling reasons the government should give manufacturing special treatment: Lowering the View Details
- April 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
The U.S. Shale Revolution: Global Rebalancing?
By: Laura Alfaro and Richard H.K. Vietor
The American shale revolution has upended oil and gas markets for nearly a decade. Prices have risen then plunged, production has surged and then waned, LNG has boomed, and technology and productivity have improved. The U.S. energy policy, under the Obama... View Details
Keywords: Shale Oil; Shale Gas; LNG; Energy Policy; Drilling Technology; Energy; Trade; Economics; Macroeconomics; Policy; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Middle East
Alfaro, Laura, and Richard H.K. Vietor. "The U.S. Shale Revolution: Global Rebalancing?" Harvard Business School Case 717-056, April 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
On September 12, 1980, the military launched a coup on the government in Turkey. For many executives, such instability is the worst nightmare of doing business in a developing country. But for Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Akin, usually on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to assess the validity of this prediction: higher tariffs should lead to higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
In 2005, a year after the venerable toy retailer FAO Schwartz emerged from bankruptcy, Ed Schmults (MBA ’89) became its CEO. “The company was relying on its glorious past but was without a clear brand direction,” Schmults explained to the New York Times (March 9,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Revelation of Bad News, were published in September. To determine when and why companies engage in this behavior and what it might indicate about their future earnings, the research team examined roughly 70,000 call transcripts from all... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
475baf4874c54b74d6872cb82ffdcb34 Amid the backdrop of U.S.-Chinese relations — tension over trade issues and Taiwan’s independence on the one hand, cooperation on terrorism and North Korea on the other —... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
Yet this literature has had much more to say about international trade and institutional structures than about entrepreneurship and MNEs. Indeed, the story of the creation of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
wrote in third grade about wanting to make a machine that would do all my homework,” recalls Mountz, the affable founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that is revolutionizing the way e-commerce retailers such as... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
proposed; the latest one by Prime Minister May triggered the resignation of a number of key ministers. All of them struggle to deal with a fundamental tension: how to square... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Working PapersThe Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author:Gary P. Pisano An abstract in unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-062.pdf PublicationsTargeted... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
shake this nagging feeling that we weren’t getting great value for our dollar.” View the duo's fashion earrings Next Open the world to disabled travelers Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Founder, AbilityTrip HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, 2010 “We created this site in... View Details
- January 1996 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Japan's Automakers Face Endaka
By: Debora L. Spar
In April 1995, the Japanese yen hit a post-World War II high against the U.S. dollar. The yen's relentless ascent affected firms on both sides of the Pacific, but fell particularly hard on Japan's big four automakers. This case explores how endaka--or"high... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Macroeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
Spar, Debora L., Julia Kou, Elizabeth B. Stein, and Karen Gordon. "Japan's Automakers Face Endaka." Harvard Business School Case 796-030, January 1996. (Revised February 1998.)
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Harvard Business School Case 210-002 In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace