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- 01 Nov 2019
- News
Companies Think They Want New Ideas. But They Don’t Act Like It.
- 15 May 2011
- News
Deeply conflicted
- 13 Apr 2011
- News
Learning to love the irrational mind
From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change
She was a slight, soft-spoken woman who preferred walking the Maine shoreline to stalking the corridors of power. And yet View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Editor's note: In their new book, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business School professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih argue that reinvesting in America's manufacturing prowess is necessary not only for creating jobs,...
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- 14 Aug 2011
- News
Inside the Greek Volcano
- 16 Sep 2014
- News
Harvard Study Warns Business Community Of Economic Inequality Risks
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
discussing how insights from the study of hybrid organizing in social enterprises may contribute to organization theory. Publisher's link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19416520.2014.893615 Working Papers Dangerous Expectations: Breaking...
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Sean Silverthorne
Reimaging Capitalism in a World on Fire, Public Affairs, April 2020
It’s the most successful economic system to have ever existed, but capitalism is in danger of destroying itself—and our world. Reimagining Capitalism gets to the heart of what’s wrong with modern capitalism and lays out a pragmatic roadmap...
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- 28 Oct 2012
- News
From Calm Leadership, Lasting Change
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
Davos Diary: Day Two
- January 1991 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)
In 1970 Xerox had a very progressive affirmative action program yet, once hired, black employees faced serious problems, due both to overt discrimination and to their exclusion from the informal networks of support, information and mentoring that the other salespeople...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Alliances;
Race Characteristics;
Employees;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Friedman, Raymond A. "Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-047, January 1991. (Revised November 1994.)
- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income...
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Taxation;
Cost Accounting;
Cash Flow;
Interest Rates;
Economic Systems;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Statements;
Valuation;
Accounting Audits;
Financing and Loans;
Accounting Industry;
Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
- 09 Mar 2014
- News
Conflict brews as Keurig tries ‘lock-out’ technology
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Cost of Distancing May Outweigh Benefits for Healthy Adults
- 11 Apr 2013
- News
Current fiscal policy harms U.S. competitiveness
- February 2003 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Brioni
By: David E. Bell
Should Brioni, an internationally known, exclusive men's suit manufacturer and retailer extend its line to include women's apparel? The opportunity is to enter a much larger and profitable market. The dangers are: 1) compromising the existing image, and 2) failing to...
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Europe's Alternative to Medicare for All: Swiss and Dutch Private Insurance Provide Better Coverage Than Canada's Single-Payer System
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Bacchus Barua
An analysis of Canada’s single-payer healthcare system shows the dangers of the proposed Medicare for All model. In fact, the Canadian healthcare system is costly and drives poor outcomes when compared to objective performance measures. Alternatively, the Swiss and...
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Keywords:
Healthcare Systems;
Universal Health Coverage;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Canada;
Switzerland;
Netherlands
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Bacchus Barua. "Europe's Alternative to Medicare for All: Swiss and Dutch Private Insurance Provide Better Coverage Than Canada's Single-Payer System." Wall Street Journal (April 17, 2019).
- 30 Apr 2021
- News