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Rethinking Nuclear: Can We Change the World’s Cumulative Carbon Emissions Soon Enough?
Today’s existing nuclear power alternatives as well as renewables are currently forecast by the EIA and IEA to be losing the race with fossil fuels worldwide and are expected to continue do so for the forecast future. A suite of *new* nuclear power... View Details
- October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)
By: Peter Tufano
ABN-AMRO, the largest bank in the Netherlands, must decide whether to take any action in regard to the poor performance of Smit Transformatoren, a Dutch transformer manufacturer. ABN-AMRO acted as lead underwriter for the IPO of Smit, and also released a favorable...
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Initial Public Offering;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Netherlands
Tufano, Peter, and Cameron Poetzscher. "ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 296-030, October 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
McKinsey Tries to Recruit Mothers Who Left the Fold
- 2013
- Chapter
The Design of Online Advertising Markets
By: Benjamin Edelman
Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of sales that...
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Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising;
Online Advertising;
Price;
Market Design;
Measurement and Metrics;
Sales;
Motivation and Incentives;
Internet and the Web
Edelman, Benjamin. "The Design of Online Advertising Markets." Chap. 15 in The Handbook of Market Design, edited by Nir Vulkan, Alvin E. Roth, and Zvika Neeman. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
employing this technique for time immemorial—ritualistically pretending that a spoonful of pureed peas is, say, "a plane coming in for a landing" in order to make it more appealing to babies.) Another experiment showed that...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
The Softer Side of Business at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual
Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way today's businesses compete and operate. By putting AI and data at the center of their capabilities, companies are redefining how they create, capture, and share value—and are achieving impressive growth...
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- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
mostly fallow for a few decades: the role of morals in careers. Once a major area of research in the 1950s and 1960s, it has “receded in focus” since then, the authors note, even as these issues have arguably become even more relevant in...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
productivity. More than 80 percent of companies dole out work-related awards like "employee of the month" or "top salesperson." Managers often view these awards as inexpensive ways to improve worker performance; many believe that when...
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- October 1997
- Case
L'Oreal of Paris: Bringing 'Class to Mass' with Plenitude
By: Robert J. Dolan
L'Oreal's strategy is to "trickle down" technology over time from high-end outlets like department stores to mass-markets, such as drugstores. The mass market brand Plenitude has become the market leader in France, but even eight years after introduction in the United...
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Keywords:
Problems and Challenges;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Globalization;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Retail Industry;
France;
United States
Dolan, Robert J. "L'Oreal of Paris: Bringing 'Class to Mass' with Plenitude." Harvard Business School Case 598-056, October 1997.
- 28 Jan 2020
- News
What Massachusetts can teach America
- 20 Dec 2016
- News
How ‘busyness’ became a bona fide status symbol
How to Recalibrate Work Dynamics and Embrace Digital Transformation in a Post-Pandemic Worklplace
Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, award-winning author, and global management and leadership expert, recently caught up with us to share her insights and advice as the workforce continues to go through rapid transformation brought about by the...
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- May 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Biopure Corp.
It is early 1998 and Biopure Corp., a small biopharmaceutical firm with no sales revenues in its ten-year history, has just received government approval to release Oxyglobin, a revolutionary new "blood substitute" designed to replace the need for donated animal blood...
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Segmentation;
Marketing Strategy;
Engineering;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Sales;
Transformation;
Markets;
Debates;
Product Launch;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gourville, John T. "Biopure Corp." Harvard Business School Case 598-150, May 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- February 2001 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Amazon.com (D)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dickson Louie and William A. Sahlman
At the end of 1999, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos--just named Time Magazine's Man of the Year--ponders the next moves for his company. Having expanded into numerous categories in 1999, ranging from Z-shops to Auctions to E-cards as well as increasing the number...
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Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Online Technology;
Retail Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Dickson Louie, and William A. Sahlman. "Amazon.com (D)." Harvard Business School Case 901-022, February 2001. (Revised November 2009.)
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
anticipate that it will continue indefinitely unless derailed by possible but unlikely international conflicts. At the core of Asian economic development is its business leadership—managers and entrepreneurs who sustain and create Asian companies. Do they exhibit the...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
collaboration. 1. Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead. Self-improvement doesn't need to be painful. Rather than set yet another gym goal, look inward, retrain your brain, and get outside, says Hirotaka Takeuchi. 2. More Proof That View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
business faced incredible barriers at the time (and arguably still do)—there had only been two women CEOs in the Fortune 500 at that point. As we gathered for lunch, Welch arrived a few minutes late and...
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- 2022
- Book
Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World
By: George Serafeim
The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.
We not only... View Details
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Keywords:
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Profitability;
Business And Society;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Goals and Objectives;
Social Issues;
Environmental Sustainability;
Value Creation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Serafeim, George. Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. New York: HarperCollins Leadership, 2022.
- 17 Jan 2024
- HBS Case
Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues
subconscious biases and attempt to get them to view certain prices as attractive and fair. The tactics range from offering tiered pricing options to old standby sales techniques, such as buy one, get one...
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