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should optimally adopt—a "scientific approach" to test possible decisions before making them. This paper offers an alternative view of experimental strategy, introducing the possibility that at least some business experiments privilege...
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- June 1995
- Case
Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System
By: Janice H. Hammond and Afroze A Mohammed
Describes distribution operations in Polaroid Europe. In the late 1980s, Polaroid senior management in the United States proposed moving from a system of 12 decentralized warehouses to a centralized distribution system in which all inventory for European retailers...
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Distribution;
Operations;
Risk Management;
Distribution Channels;
Logistics;
Transition;
Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Industry Structures;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
European Union;
United States
Hammond, Janice H., and Afroze A Mohammed. "Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System." Harvard Business School Case 695-038, June 1995.
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
problem-solving. The researchers designed a task “where consultants would excel, but AI would struggle without extensive guidance,” the paper explains. The BCG consultants in this group first had to understand a company’s distribution View Details
- 16 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis
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by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
sentiment measures that it makes available to researchers and the broader public. Please visit our About page for more information about the project. Data Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di...
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- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
They looked for language that was more specific than “make the world a better place” and included big players like TPG Alternative & Renewable Technologies. Using US census data, the researchers cross-referenced portfolio companies,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Palvia, and Albert L. Harris, 207-224. Marietta, Ga.: Ivy League Publishing, Limited, 2007 Abstract In the early 21st century, IT has become more important than ever. Technology evolution, the creation of new channels to global resource...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
that exposure to informational advertising can decrease the consumer's tendency to purchase the promoted product. The structural estimates imply that an exposure to a single advertisement decreases the consumer's probability of not choosing her best View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
customization to the online environment and credible monitoring and punishments. I analyze the pricing, enforcement, and channel management policies of a manufacturer over several years. During this period, new View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Business School faculty led in developing the method. A particular challenge in the writing of cases is finding the balance between enough complexity, so that the problem posed reflects reality and supports alternative approaches to...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
on political councils, political legacy, and financial resources—affect the likelihood of firms issuing CSR reports. Second, we focus on the symbolic nature of CSR reporting and how variance in the risk of government monitoring through View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’...
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- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
enough about the general practice of management that they can communicate effectively with the management team. A lawyer who can't read an income statement or understand the rudiments of strategy is far less able to help the non-lawyers on the team consider View Details
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Research - Private Capital Project
Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach...
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April White
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, examines an alternative route for American teenagers and companies alike: The apprenticeships popular in many European countries. Looking closely at a successful US apprentice...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
School who has created a new MBA course, Public Entrepreneurship. "The course allows students to consider the alternative that government can work—or they can help make it work." “We have many talented people in government, but...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
analyze in advance exactly what would happen the day the article came out and what precisely he should do to channel fear, anger, and confusion into a determination to act fast and succeed. The day came. A full-blown crisis was created....
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by John P. Kotter
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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