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- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to Serra’s life and provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
value created for users by the offering based on the technology; define the structure of the value chain, that is, the network of activities within the firm required to create and distribute the products or services offered to customers;... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the marketplace and, in so doing,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- May 2022
- Supplement
Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-400, May 2022.
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
technical and management team members. Now running desperately low on cash, Perlman had to contend with many potential deal partners, including VCs, angels, and industrial partners (as potential sources of cash); consumer electronics firms, Internet View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
monitoring, and care for routine health issues. On-site physical therapists offer coaching to prevent injury and services to speed recovery. On-site diabetes educators work with groups of employees to engage them in lifestyle changes that... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
markets: Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806166 PayPal Merchant Services Thomas Eisenmann and Lauren Barley 806-188 In early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
broadcast Internet access some 300 feet. Hostin said the typical user isn't surfing the Web. Instead, he's logging on, downloading e-mail, and synchronizing calendar information, all to be read at a later time. "We call our Wi-Fi network a digital filling... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability and effectiveness today? What should it do about them? With a detailed description of the Bank's challenges of democratic accountability, its constraints, and recommendations for the future, HBS professor Alnoor Ebrahim testified before the Committee on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
advertising system in which a certain amount of waste and fraud has become the norm, despite the system's fundamental capability to offer unprecedented accountability. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/accountable-adfraud-ieeesp-nov2014.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
behavioral hazard, providing a theoretical foundation for value-based insurance design and a way to interpret behavioral "nudges." Once behavioral hazard is taken into account, health insurance can do more than just provide View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
which, as the former parent of Delphi, has agreed to fund a portion of the massive pension and retiree health care liabilities that Delphi incurred when it separated from GM in a prior spin-off. The company has also had to seek significant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
most countries, there are strong local brands reflecting local tastes that coexist alongside global brands.” Marketing by producers to consumers is as old as the bazaar. But modern marketing is more than just selling. It involves the design of products and View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106002. View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Spice, P&G was a seasoned marketer with strong consumer research, a powerful innovation network, and the world's largest financial commitment to advertising. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311117-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
actually built by these firms? Many would argue that answers to these questions are irrelevant. As long as services are performed and products manufactured, they say, such organizational configurations are beneficial. They allow companies... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad institutions that support innovation:... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not very profitable. Based on View Details