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- August 1998
- Case
Electronic Commerce at Air Products
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry...
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Management Teams;
Information Technology;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption;
Business Strategy;
Chemical Industry;
United States
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Melissa Dailey. "Electronic Commerce at Air Products." Harvard Business School Case 399-035, August 1998.
- 17 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
- Research Summary
The Appropriability of Reputation in Franchises Selling Brands
We develop a multi-market model in which there are two kinds of firms: brands and small firms (or agents). Firms interact with short lived clients in the market for goods (or services) and with each other in the market for franchises. The model is one of adverse...
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- October 2018
- Article
The Operational Value of Social Media Information
By: Ruomeng Cui, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno and Dennis J. Zhang
While the value of using social media information has been established in multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions. This study attempts to...
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Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang. "The Operational Value of Social Media Information." Special Issue on Big Data in Supply Chain Management. Production and Operations Management 27, no. 10 (October 2018): 1749–1774.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Bride Price and the Returns to Education
By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In...
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Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn, and Alessandra Voena. "Bride Price and the Returns to Education." Working Paper, November 2014.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial imagination. Pioneering entrepreneurs faced little...
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Marketing;
Consumer Goods;
Entrepreneurs;
Environment;
Food;
Globalization;
Business History;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
Middle East;
North and Central America
Jones, Geoffrey. "Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-024, August 2012.
- January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible
By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several...
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History;
Mission and Purpose;
Transition;
Management Practices and Processes;
Construction;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Style;
Business History;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Civil Society or Community;
Business Strategy;
Planning;
Construction Industry;
Shipping Industry;
United States
Mayo, Anthony J., Mark Benson, and David Chen. "Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible." Harvard Business School Case 408-072, January 2008. (Revised March 2011.)
- September 2013 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife
By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong
In January 2013, nightlife impresarios Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg are celebrating the re-opening of their famed New York City–based nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one and a half years, Strauss and Tepperberg managed to keep...
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Keywords:
Creative Industries;
Nightlife;
Service Management;
Entertainment;
Fashion;
Celebrities;
Event Marketing;
Risk Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Music Entertainment;
Product Marketing;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Las Vegas
Elberse, Anita, Ryan Barlow, and Sheldon Wong. "Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife." Harvard Business School Case 514-028, September 2013. (Revised June 2019.)
- Profile
Thomaz Galvao
venture they are incubating in the i-lab. “Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Americas,” Thomaz explains. “There are significant gaps between supply and demand for job occupations: companies can’t find people...
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- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
regulators, who may frown on companies deliberately curtailing supply to drive up profits at the expense of consumers. “When a good is more widespread, there are way more people who can enjoy it.” Plus, retail companies may question: At...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810096-PDF-ENG Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 110-063 Owens &...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade....
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- 19 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting Information as Political Currency
- 15 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent
By: Pian Shu
Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not...
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Shu, Pian. "Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-067, December 2015. (Revised November 2016.)
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of...
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- March 1991 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola and the Soft Drink Industry
Describes the competition between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. Provides a summary of the history of the soft drink industry prior to World War II, and over the period 1950-1990 in greater detail. Major strategic competitive moves and countermoves are described. Also...
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Porter, Michael E. "Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola and the Soft Drink Industry." Harvard Business School Case 391-179, March 1991. (Revised October 1994.)
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
was about running a business. It was all about supply chains and helping the military figure out the best way to get stuff to Europe. Of course, identity and structure both had to change. And then the war was over, and we went back to the...
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by Carmen Nobel
Christopher A. Bartlett
Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979).
As a practicing manager prior... View Details
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who purchase $2-$10 million of factory View Details