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- April 2021
- Case
Coca-Cola: Preparing for the Next 100 Years
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and James Weber
In early 2020, James Quincey, the 14th chair of the 133-year old The Coca-Cola Company, was in the midst of a years-long transformation of Coca-Cola from being the leading carbonated soft drink (CSD) beverage company into a total beverage company. The company’s...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Diversification;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Environmental Sustainability;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and James Weber. "Coca-Cola: Preparing for the Next 100 Years." Harvard Business School Case 721-359, April 2021.
- Article
Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Oliver P. Hauser, Julie O'Brien, Erin Sherman and Adam D. Galinsky
A significant reduction in energy consumption is needed to help meet critical temperature thresholds. New research points to a way to help consumers work toward this goal – one that doesn’t rest on changing people’s personal beliefs about climate change. Rather, it...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., Oliver P. Hauser, Julie O'Brien, Erin Sherman, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Research: People Use Less Energy When They Think Their Neighbors Care About the Environment." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 28, 2019).
- December 2008 (Revised April 2009)
- Background Note
China's Energy Industry
By: F. Warren McFarlan, George Baroutas and Tracy Manty
China is ranked the world's second largest consumer of energy. This note provides background on China's energy industry and provides details on China's leading state-owned energy companies, production and consumption statistics, and government policies in support of...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, George Baroutas, and Tracy Manty. "China's Energy Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-057, December 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Some Strategies to Limit Sugary Drinks May Backfire
- January 2024
- Case
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Decisions;
Business Earnings;
Profit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Values and Beliefs;
Mission and Purpose;
Competition;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
E-commerce;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Fashion Industry;
Spain;
Germany;
Italy;
Europe;
United States
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz, and María José Satrústegui. "ECOALF: Fashion for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 524-057, January 2024.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Measuring the Cost of Corporate Water Usage
By: DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
We develop a methodology that calculates the impact that organizations have on the environment through their water consumption relating to water stress risk. Using the methodology, we derive estimates for four companies that show how assumptions on the geographic...
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Keywords:
Water;
Water Management;
Environment;
Sustainability;
Environmental Impact;
Impact-Weighted Accounts;
IWAI;
Organizations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Valuation
Park, DG, George Serafeim, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Measuring the Cost of Corporate Water Usage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-036, September 2020.
- November 2008 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kefei Yang
China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its 50-plus years of operation undergone four stages of transformation and was about to embark on a fifth. The global agriculture system was...
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Keywords:
Food;
Leadership;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Globalization;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
China
Goldberg, Ray A., and Kefei Yang. "Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment." Harvard Business School Case 909-403, November 2008. (Revised March 2018.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors
By: Thales S. Teixeira and Peter Jamieson
While the Internet's first wave of disruption was marked by the unbundling of digital content, the second wave, decoupling, promises to generate more casualties in an even broader array of industries. Digital start-ups are disrupting traditional businesses by inserting...
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Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson. "The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-031, October 2014.
- Research Summary
Investment Management
Professor Chacko's research looks into the portfolio choice decisions of individuals and institutions. He is particularly concerned with optimal portfolio choice and consumption decisions in a dynamic framework. His work looks at how economic agents make these...
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- Teaching Interest
Information in Financial Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2016)
Second-year undergraduate course covering various aspects of information propagation in financial markets. The course is divided into four units. We begin by covering canonical pricing anomalies that illustrate the importance of information distribution and...
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- July 2015
- Article
A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown to rationalize deposit contracts in which people can withdraw their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 7, no. 3 (July 2015): 123–152.
- March 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Background Note
The Newspaper Industry in Crisis
By: David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson and Mary Furey
This note is a primer on the newspaper industry, which has been in decline in the U.S. and Western Europe. The 19th century business model whereby news and editorial content was packaged and delivered to homes daily and paid for by national advertisers has been...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business History;
Newspapers;
Disruptive Innovation;
Consumer Behavior;
Business Strategy;
Internet;
Journalism and News Industry;
Publishing Industry;
Europe;
United States
Collis, David J., Peter W. Olson, and Mary Furey. "The Newspaper Industry in Crisis." Harvard Business School Background Note 709-463, March 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
Buy Now, Pay Later Credit: User Characteristics and Effects on Spending Patterns
Firms offering "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) point-of-sale loans with minimal underwriting have grown in popularity in the last couple of years. According to Worldpay, BNPL accounted for 2.1% – or roughly $97b – of global e-commerce transactions in 2020, and is...
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- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
experiences, not heavy goods for the home. The economic boom of the 1990s fuelled consumption and democratized access to a wider than ever spectrum of goods transforming former luxuries into "must-have" necessities. Millions played the...
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- 05 Nov 2014
- News
Divestment Alone Won’t Beat Climate Change
- 20 Jun 2018
- News
Graphic images speak to consumers of sugary drinks
- 2010
- Working Paper
Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
By: Diego A. Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha and Luis Serven
We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous and slow diffusion of technologies from the developed to the developing country, and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. We calibrate the model to match the Mexico-U.S. trade and FDI...
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Trade;
International Finance;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Mathematical Methods;
Mexico;
United States
Comin, Diego A., Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven. "Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-029, October 2009. (Revise and resubmit at the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.)
- 06 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Adam Isen, U.S. Department of the Treasury
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Complexity of Economic Decisions
By: Xavier Gabaix and Thomas Graeber
We propose a theory of the complexity of economic decisions. Leveraging a macroeconomic framework of production functions, we conceptualize the mind as a cognitive economy, where a task’s complexity is determined by its composition of cognitive operations. Complexity...
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Gabaix, Xavier, and Thomas Graeber. "The Complexity of Economic Decisions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-049, February 2024.
- January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Private 5G Networks
By: Andy Wu and Maggie Yang
In the late 2010’s, 5G emerged as a new standard in communication technology. 5G was designed to enable ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), massive machine-type communication (MMTC), and enhanced mobile broadband (EMBB) (see Exhibit 1 for a detailed...
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Keywords:
5G;
Communication Technology;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry
Wu, Andy, and Maggie Yang. "Private 5G Networks." Harvard Business School Case 724-430, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)