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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

ethanol from corn. The cooperative has performed well in comparison to other producers, but margins in the industry had declined as industry production levels neared market demand limits. MME farmers needed to decide whether to take... View Details
  • August 1995 (Revised January 1997)
  • Exercise

Consumer Behavior Exercise (A)

By: John A. Deighton and Susan M. Fournier
Students are instructed to interview a recent purchaser of a low-involvement product or service in depth about his/her buying decision. The exercise provides students with first-hand understanding of important concepts in consumer choice domain (e.g., stages in the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior
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  • 07 Jan 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss of privacy is a natural product of the information age View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Sparking Internet Commerce

businesses and organizations to provide users with a highly personalized selection of goods, services, and information." Employing passwords and aliases to ensure anonymity,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 22 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

I continue to be exceedingly proud, grateful, and humbled to have had the opportunity to serve my country. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: Flying through the dark Afghanistan night to rescue two downed pilots. Delivering vital medical View Details
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

the demands on Tessei continued to grow. Given previous leaders' failed attempts to fix Tessei's problems with increased managerial monitoring and controls, Yabe seeks a creative approach to overcome the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details
Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the expected demand at each price and must learn the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

Competition for the Supply of Control Systems By: Mikes, Anette Abstract—How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

result would be a stronger country with a growing supply of well-paying jobs. In forming ARD, its founders were guided by an intuitive understanding of the dynamics of entrepreneurship. They realized that organizations with "enormous... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • April 2018
  • Supplement

$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg! (B)

By: David B. Yoffie and Aakash Mehta
This case provides a brief update on Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. View Details
Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Network Effects; Technology Industry
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  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

considerations seem central in the demand for redistribution, and because in several settings (as in some ultimatum games) such preferences for fairness can lead to large (material) inefficiencies. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

health care), OTC drugs (in which its Advil and Anacin were best-sellers), nutritional products (in which its infant formula preparations ranked just behind those of Abbott and Bristol-Myers in market... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Johnson, and Linnea MeyerHarvard Business School Case 210-021 What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Israel - Global Activities 2021

more of any crop, in any climate, with less water. “ Everyone knows that farmers’ appetite for water exceeds supply in many regions. Netafim—astute, technologically sophisticated, and committed to improving... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

—GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is to get the data to help you find the best match for you.” —GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “I saw that major health systems were struggling to match supply... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

teams (in some areas). The case centers on questions of how to adapt this successful model to new demands in a different service domain, specifically, cybersecurity and defense-related areas. The case also... View Details