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- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
tap a Core Partner who has experience running sales teams who will support the company for a few hours a month, or even take a more active role if needed. To align incentives with the founders, shares are given to Core Partners from Underscore’s investment. It’s a...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
where there may be a more favorable business model in the near term, or should it double down in the established wellness space? Or should the team continue to explore how their technology could be used in other markets for even broader...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
was in the forefront of this movement, "democratizing" photography with the one-dollar Kodak Brownie camera in 1900. Next I chose Henry Ford, who not only put America on wheels with the Model T, but altered the business world with the...
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- February 2024
- Teaching Note
AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19
By: Mark Egan and C. Fritz Foley
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 224-020. In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a...
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- November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
FleetBoston Financial: Online Banking
By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
As the ninth largest bank holding company in the United States in 2000, FleetBoston Financial Corp. provided a myriad of financial services, including retail banking, loan origination, and brokerage accounts. This case explores how FleetBoston responded to the Internet...
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Business Model;
Borrowing and Debt;
Cost Management;
Banks and Banking;
Consumer Behavior;
Service Operations;
Competition;
Online Technology;
Banking Industry;
United States
Frei, Frances X., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "FleetBoston Financial: Online Banking." Harvard Business School Case 601-042, November 2000. (Revised May 2002.)
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio of CSR programs....
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
is developing stem cell products to treat cancer, genetic disorders, and immune deficiencies. Keep Business Model Fluid "Know your timing," advised Susan Willet Bird, founder and president of Women.future, an organization that...
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by Julia Hanna
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
Courses As the online education sector has grown, Alison’s “freemium” model continues to set it apart. The company is one of the largest certifiers of education globally and boasts 3 million graduates. Feerick is especially proud of the...
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April White
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond...
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Susan Young
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- Student-Profile
Erica Moszkowski
Williams College. Degree in hand, Erica accepted a position as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she witnessed how economic modeling translates into policy decisions. She became passionate about pursuing...
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
leaders’ public statements repudiating these bills, a charge led by Black business leaders; increased violence against Asian Americans, particularly older women, but also increased visibility for a minority that has long remained invisible under the guise of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
self-sustaining and replicable model of health-care delivery for rural villages. The new Crossroads program, like its predecessor, aims to attract alumni who are searching for greater personal or professional satisfaction, or who are...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
receive 8%–15% of the final retail value. Earth2Globe path: Earth2Globe’s model reduces the steps between the farmer and the consumer and ensures a higher-quality product. Saffron is sold to Earth2Globe, which handles export and...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
copywriters at Lord Thomas invented the “salesmanship in print” business model that sustained the industry for decades to come. In short, the firm convinced clients that print ads should follow a salesman’s approach, offering the...
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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308035 PublicationsWarmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map Authors:Amy J.C....
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Martha Lagace
- November 2016
- Case
Pete & Gerry's
By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
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"Pete & Gerry's;
" Eggs;
Egg Industry;
Avian Flu;
Cage Free;
Free Range;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture;
Industry Structure;
Industry Evolution;
Price Volatility;
Small Business;
Strategy Formulation;
Branding;
Marketing;
Premium Brand;
Growth;
Consumer;
Consumer Behavior;
Animal Welfare;
Retail;
Grocery;
Food Labeling;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Advertising Campaigns;
Business Model;
Change;
Change Management;
Disruption;
Transition;
Trends;
Volatility;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Ethics;
Health;
Problems and Challenges;
Operations;
Sales;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Quality;
Public Opinion;
Value;
Strategy;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Alvarez, Jose, and Natalie Kindred. "Pete & Gerry's." Harvard Business School Case 517-048, November 2016.
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
pursuing an international expansion strategy by increasing demand for its range of traditional and electric bicycles and shifting its product mix toward higher-margin models sold through specialty bicycle retail shops. However, the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked about restaurants; namely, that they tend to...
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