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- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Reframing Sales Effectiveness
- April 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Sanjeev Kapoor: The Recipe for Success
By: Boris Groysberg and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
India's most recognized celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor has been an integral part of the country's food industry since 1993. As a celebrity chef, Kapoor enjoyed a 17-year run of his hit TV cooking show “Khana Khazana,” published more than 100 cookbook titles in multiple...
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Advertising;
Business Ventures;
Change;
Decision Making;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Leadership;
Management;
Markets;
Media;
Organizations;
Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Quality;
Relationships;
Technology;
Food and Beverage Industry;
India;
South Asia
Groysberg, Boris, and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Sanjeev Kapoor: The Recipe for Success." Harvard Business School Case 419-076, April 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- December 2014
- Article
Second Thoughts About a Strategy Shift
By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
A retail guru attempts to reposition an established brand and introduce an entirely new pricing scheme. Early financial results from the strategic shift are not favorable. Based on the experience of U.S. retailer J.C. Penney, the piece raises fundamental questions...
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Brand Management;
Pricing Strategy;
Retailing;
Leadership;
Price;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Retail Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Jill Avery. "Second Thoughts About a Strategy Shift." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 12 (December 2014): 125–127.
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans, who studies how people navigate trade-offs between time and money. “We know that buying into positive experiences—like the movies—is a good predictor of daily happiness. This...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2003
- Module Note
Managing Product Development
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Introduces students to the managerial aspects critical to conceiving, designing, and developing innovative products and services. Considers the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs, understanding and managing experimentation and problem...
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- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
The researchers also monitored whether customers closed their accounts during that time. The data helped researchers compare the loyalty and profit potential of customers who received each marketing message. After all, credit cards are...
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by Danielle Kost
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace...
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Dina Gerdeman
- December 2004 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project, The
Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem in Namibia. Bush encroachment not only destroys the general ecosystem, but it also has a harmful impact on the...
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Social Enterprise;
For-Profit Firms;
Emerging Markets;
Environmental Sustainability;
Financial Strategy;
Africa
Hecht, Peter A., and Judith Walls. "Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project, The." Harvard Business School Case 205-046, December 2004. (Revised February 2005.)
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in accounting and management at Harvard...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
treatments that primarily benefit women, yet an examination of biomedical patents filed over a 30-year period revealed a significant shortage of inventions targeting women’s health versus the large volume of new products for male ailments, according to a recent study...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
interest — on this mostly Republican $10 trillion debt, up from slightly less than $1 trillion when Reagan took office, is equivalent to about 40 percent of all the personal income taxes Americans pay each year. Imagine what would happen if the View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
cetera). There is talk about the U.S. becoming an IP economy; well, if that's the case, then we need to understand how markets for IP really work. The other offshoot from the book is continued investigation of the general problem of...
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- 05 Feb 2015
- Blog Post
Crossing the Atlantic
Coming to Harvard Business School was a forcing function to re-think my career path. One thing was for sure, I was committed to not return to consulting post-HBS. Therefore, it was a surprise to my friends, and most of all me, when I...
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- August 2017 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad
By: Sunil Gupta and Eren Kuzucu
In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its launch in October 2012, Enpara had been successful in attracting over 600,000 customers by appealing to digital savvy,...
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Innovation;
Competition;
Banks and Banking;
Business Model;
Product Launch;
Competitive Strategy;
Integration;
Innovation and Invention;
Decision Making;
Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Digital Transformation;
Banking Industry;
Turkey
Gupta, Sunil, and Eren Kuzucu. "Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad." Harvard Business School Case 518-030, August 2017. (Revised June 2018.)
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
It’s a sad fact of doing business: customers leave. “You’d like to have 100 percent of customers stay 100 percent of the time,” says Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta. “But that’s just not the case.” There can be plenty of...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
method-a teaching approach unknown in Japan-continue to guide him, he notes, in overseeing Kikkoman's new business development. He also manages several other departments and subsidiary branches, such as the company's biochemical and...
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Judith A. Ross
- October 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
SMART: AI and Machine Learning for Wildlife Conservation
By: Brian Trelstad and Bonnie Yining Cao
Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), a set of software and analytical tools designed for the purpose of wildlife conservation, had demonstrated significant improvements in patrol coverage, with some observed reductions in poaching and contributing to wildlife...
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Business and Government Relations;
Emerging Markets;
Technology Adoption;
Strategy;
Management;
Ethics;
Social Enterprise;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Natural Environment;
Technology Industry;
Cambodia;
United States;
Africa
Trelstad, Brian, and Bonnie Yining Cao. "SMART: AI and Machine Learning for Wildlife Conservation." Harvard Business School Case 323-036, October 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
GenZers’ need for “connection” be any less than that of preceding generations? Has the pandemic so affected their outlook and behavior that they in turn will affect the way work is performed and businesses are organized and led? Have...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
underserved nature of the rare disease population combined with increases in federal funding, biotech and medical advancements are spurring optimism for the future. Growth in the markets for clinical trials, drug repurposing, and orphan...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging View Details
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Dina Gerdeman