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- 22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
technology adds an increasingly dynamic dimension by dint of its exponential power to boost output while reducing costs through speed and efficiency. Another feature of...
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Garry Emmons
- 17 Apr 2012
- News
Japan's trading houses move into the big league
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
made promises that reality couldn’t keep, such as claiming Lucky Strikes (“Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”) improved throat health. He preferred to do business directly with chief executives and made many View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from...
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Deborah Blagg
- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country....
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- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
craft by employing the powerful effect of storytelling. It's proven powerful enough to put an end to those "pre-work" work meetings. In late 2012, Koss and Paranjape were able...
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- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
their skills has given nurses greater bargaining power to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions. Prior to the pandemic, Nightingale Nurses charged about $85 an hour for its nurses (about...
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- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
which he started in 2010, is now the largest energy investor in Nigeria, producing more than 18 percent of the country’s power through Transcorp Power, its investee company. “It is helping hospitals; it’s...
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April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
some new sign of the apparent retreat of government in the face of the relentless power of free market forces....
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart,” HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
competition from other players in their respective industries. Many factors contributed to their success but much hinged on their ability, as Koehn writes, to create “products and connections to buyers that offered not only quality,...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
percent) that President Nixon (that laissez-faire Republican) imposed wage and price controls, to a world where each of our kids has more computing power on his or her desk, and each View Details
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
last year, which enabled her to spend six months in Singapore and six months in Shanghai conducting on-the-ground research and engaging with business leaders throughout the region. “I am interested in how globalization affects domestic distributions View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
deprived them of their bargaining power, at least into April when the presidential order expired. There is, however, a better way - one that would permit the contending parties to fight it out while limiting...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than...
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