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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
(For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a serious deterrent to attracting businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are...
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- May 2012
- Course Overview Note
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez Villa
This note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other types of social strategies deliver bottom line benefits. The analysis follows stakeholder logic models connecting...
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Keywords:
Business And Society;
Social Responsibility;
Stakeholder Management;
Government And Business;
Philanthropy;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Revenue
Marquis, Christopher, and Laura Velez Villa. "Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 412-121, May 2012.
- March 2019 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
MoviePass: The 'Get Big Fast' Strategy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
In August 2017, MoviePass dramatically lowered its subscription price from $50 per month to just $10 for up to one movie per day. The idea was to rapidly scale the business to the point where they could generate incremental revenue streams from related businesses...
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Keywords:
Market Entry;
Growth Strategy;
Profit Vs. Growth;
Subscription Business;
Cash Burn;
Data Analytics;
Get-big-fast;
Buyer Power;
Strategy Implementation;
Movie Industry;
Racing;
Entrepreneurship;
Market Entry and Exit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Value Creation;
Disruption;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel W. Fisher. "MoviePass: The 'Get Big Fast' Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 719-455, March 2019. (Revised July 2020.)
- April 2020
- Teaching Note
Glossier: Co-Creating a Cult Brand with a Digital Community
By: Jill Avery
Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-022. Flush with cash from its Series C fundraise, cult beauty brand Glossier considers its next phase of growth, facing critical decisions on how to allocate its capital to support various marketing communications and distribution...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Crowdsourcing;
CRM;
Startup;
Direct-to-consumer;
DTC;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior;
Customer Relationship Management;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Media;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
United States
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
I am incredibly grateful to have spent this past week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) aimed at introducing rising seniors to Harvard's MBA and, in all, exposing us to the impact of strong...
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- Web
Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Competition provides a unique opportunity for students to put entrepreneurship principles into practice with an integrative learning experience. Students may participate in either the Business Track (for ventures whose economic returns...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
countries. The Creating Emerging Markets project is sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Business History Initiative. We spoke with Oberholzer-Gee, who conducted both...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- July 1999 (Revised July 1999)
- Teaching Note
Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A) and (B) TN
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Edward T Smith
Teaching Note for (9-698-021) and (9-698-024).
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- 16 Jun 2015
- News
With Heat future uncertain, Wade studying up on business
- July 2014
- Teaching Note
Vaxess Technologies, Inc.
By: John A. Quelch
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
businesses. But small business credit was hit hard during the recent recession and has been slow to recover. Beginning in early 2009, the federal government acted quickly to unfreeze credit markets with...
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- April 2013
- Article
In Search of a Second Act: Riding the Popularity of a Great First Product Is Easy; Finding the Next One Is Hard
By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
The article presents a fictional case study on new product development and improvement after the successful launch of a first breakthrough product. Topics include business planning for brand name products, finance and investment for the development of educational toys,...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Growth Strategy;
Consumer Marketing;
Marketing;
Brand Management;
Market Research;
New Product Development;
Marketing Management;
Technology Commercialization;
Technology;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
Ofek, Elie, and Jill Avery. "In Search of a Second Act: Riding the Popularity of a Great First Product Is Easy; Finding the Next One Is Hard." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 4 (April 2013): 133–137.
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), evaluated her client’s philanthropy project and its mediocre performance. RPA was a... One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings By: Timothy Flacke and Peter Tufano May 14, 2024 | Harvard Business...
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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems Course Number 1524 Associate Professor Ethan Rouen Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Free market Capitalism is one of the great...
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- December 2019
- Case
The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids
By: Erik Snowberg, Trevor Fetter and Amy W. Schulman
This case is designed to provide an engrossing overview of stakeholder capitalism through a vigorous discussion of the conflicts that can arise when trying to serve multiple stakeholders.
In 2007, Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) subsidiary Janssen has to decide whether or...
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Keywords:
Opioids;
Addiction;
Stakeholder Capitalism;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Product Launch;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Social Issues;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Snowberg, Erik, Trevor Fetter, and Amy W. Schulman. "The Business of Pain: Johnson & Johnson and the Promise of Opioids." Harvard Business School Case 720-420, December 2019.
- Web
Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog
networking opportunities and the potential to develop new business and build market share.” Business of the Arts (BOTA) is designed to introduce students to the key issues...
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- 30 Jan 2015
- News
Harvard business profs to tweet about the Super Bowl
- 2016
- Working Paper
Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment
By: Zengquan Li, T.J. Wong and Gwen Yu
When emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that firms overcome this...
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Keywords:
Emerging Market;
Financial Analysts;
Information;
Emerging Markets;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Corporate Governance
Li, Zengquan, T.J. Wong, and Gwen Yu. "Private Networks of Managers and Financial Analysts and Their Externality on a Firm's Information Environment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-135, June 2016. (Revised October 2016.)