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- 06 May 2009
- News
Profs: Keep those corporate road warriors flying
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
The sun was setting and a light snow falling, creating a thin white blanket that covered the winding two-lane country road stretching in front of Joshua Margolis, when he suddenly felt his 1992 Volvo give into the slick surface, pull out...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
After a rather halfhearted attempt at a mixed economy under the slogan of "new democracy," early PRC leaders followed the road of high Stalinism. They believed that land-owning farmers and entrepreneurial businessmen were not...
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by William C. Kirby
- August 26, 2009
- Comment
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
By: John A. Quelch
Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S. taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program.
True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details
True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details
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Government Programs;
Environmental Impact;
Government Waste;
Customer Behavior;
Economic Growth;
Economy;
Financial Crisis;
Government and Politics;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Programs;
Value;
Auto Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Quelch, John A. "Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (August 26, 2009).
- September 19, 2013
- Article
Leading Productive Meetings: 8 Rules of the Road
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Leading Productive Meetings: 8 Rules of the Road." Leadership Forum (September 19, 2013).
- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Supplement
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2009, Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco's fortunes had been reversed. His fiscal policy that had come under attack just a year ago had been used to finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-020, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- 25–26 Mar 2022
- HBS Club Events
HBS Africa Business Conference: Reimagining the Road Ahead
We are pleased to welcome you to the 24th Annual Africa Business Conference. The conference will be held on March 25 and 26, 2022 in Boston. The first day of events will be held on Harvard Business School's campus and will be open to all attendees while Day 2 events...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
H icham Mhammedi Alaoui (MBA 2014) didn’t want to spend the summer of 2013 working in a corporate office. Instead, he and three HBS classmates cofounded MBAs Across America (MBAxAmerica), a movement to send teams of pioneering MBAs out on the View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S....
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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail interview, Jones explains the origin...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal policy. As the world's largest copper producer, Chile was benefiting from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Metals and Minerals;
Investment Funds;
Policy;
State Ownership;
Wealth;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-019, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- January 2007 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road
By: Aldo Musacchio
Covers President Lula's challenges to reduce "Brazil cost" and grow like other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that for Brazil to grow like other BRIC countries, the Brazilian government would have to reduce the cost of doing business...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Cost;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
China;
India;
Russia;
Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road." Harvard Business School Case 707-031, January 2007. (Revised February 2018.)
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
Clubs News Clubs News A team from HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hit the road in March with a goal of bringing career education and coaching services to alumni in 27 cities in the U.S. and Canada over a 12-week span. The...
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Margie Kelley
- Article
Empty U.S. Roads Should Be Safer. They're Not.
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Empty U.S. Roads Should Be Safer. They're Not." Bloomberg Opinion (June 3, 2020).
- October 2018
- Case
The Road to Mandalay: RMA Group in Myanmar
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Maria Fulwiler
Reinert, Sophus A., and Maria Fulwiler. "The Road to Mandalay: RMA Group in Myanmar." Harvard Business School Case 719-003, October 2018.
- 13 May 2015
- News
Can Congress fix our crumbling roads and bridges?
- August 2022
- Teaching Note
Sarah Robb O‘Hagan: The Rocky Road of Passion
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Francesca Gino
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-055.
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- June 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Kenya Railways: China's Belt and Road in Africa
- July 2008 (Revised February 2011)
- Supplement
Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (B)
By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Update on the (A) case.
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Knowledge;
Business or Company Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Competitive Advantage;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 409-008, July 2008. (Revised February 2011.)