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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is common in many countries, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
leader, selling the most advanced equipment to a variety of medical establishments. Will a complete shift to healthymagination allow GE to demonstrate strong organic growth through innovation, as Immelt had charged executives at GE?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607032 MD Beauty, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 806-045 Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion? Authors:Volker Nocke and Lucy White Periodical:American Economic Review 97, no. 4 (September 2007): 1321-1339 Abstract We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to collude when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
hundreds of millions of dollars. It also helped create viral marketing, which lets users help suppliers sell the product. Potential for commercial success once again triumphed over social station. Openness to outsiders also benefits major... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
launched programs to sell MedKaz to each prospective market segment—to consumers and groups with specific healthcare needs, to corporations that can offer MedKaz as an employee wellness benefit, and to such government entities as the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
revenues of $7.7 billion in 2007. She is particularly proud that 1.3 million people make some part of their living selling things through eBay. “Our concept has been to make a small number of rules and get the heck out of the way so that... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
does not preclude also raising cash by selling options externally to pay a large part of the cash compensation to employees. We certainly recognize the vitality and wealth that entrepreneurial ventures, particularly those in the high-tech... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
battery to profit from buying and selling electricity, increasing grid reliability, and increasing the utilization of renewable energy. NextWave Trades - Tuneer De (MBA 2025) - NextWave Trades empowers a new generation of professionals... View Details
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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Polaroid Corporation Chief Marketing Executive Bob Casselman provides instructions on how to market the Polaroid Land Camera. How to Sell a Camera Marketing an Innovation In this silent film, a woman demonstrates how easy it is to load... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
profile for Republic-listed companies different, but the platform is also selling products and services less likely to resonate with what Hofmann calls the “traditional white-male VC.” She holds up the example of the black-owned startup... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a farmer had to ask the agent... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
designing and selling new products. "Marketers have to understand that consumers have a lot to deal with when they bring a new technology into the home," she notes. "In this world of 'relationship marketing,' why can't marketers be the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
the ‘I-am-helping-you’ element is always somewhere in the transaction,” he says. “You, the recipient, are being given something and that affects the nature of the relationship. Now, with our approach, you are an important part of the economy—a customer—and this... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of HBS alumni who are launching their own Internet companies, View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
what they told their own children: ‘Why don’t you bloom where you were planted? Contribute to the community where you were raised. Markets are international. You can build from anywhere. You can sell anywhere,’” Sirois recalls. Sirois... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Mahindra in 1991. Anand Mahindra has been leading M&M’s charge into the ranks of the world’s global corporations ever since. Established in 1945, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), named after one of India’s best-known business families, got its start View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last month. Then there's the company's business model: View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
http://hbr.org/search/914405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-067 Rodan + Fields Dermatologists The case focuses on issues involved in managing the direct multilevel marketing sales consultants who sell R+F skin care products. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne