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- August 2012
- Article
Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness
By: Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan
Marketers often extend product lines by offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm...
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Production;
Competency and Skills;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Cost vs Benefits;
Perception;
Customers;
Performance Evaluation;
Fairness;
Business Ventures
Gershoff, Andrew, Ran Kivetz, and Anat Keinan. "Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness." Journal of Consumer Research 39, no. 2 (August 2012): 382–398. (Selected in 2017 for JCR Research Curations on “Behavioral Pricing”.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations....
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Immigration;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Patents;
Industry Clusters;
United States
Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-020, September 2009.
- June 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Zoots - Financing Growth (A)
By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Todd Krasnow
Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful Staples chain, the company raises a very large amount of capital without fully proving its business model, and...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Investment Return;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Valuation;
United States
Roberts, Michael J., William A. Sahlman, and Todd Krasnow. "Zoots - Financing Growth (A)." Harvard Business School Case 807-139, June 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 18 Apr 2016
- HBS Seminar
Felipe Caro, UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Program
Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise
businesses, family offices, or family foundations; consultants or executives in professional service firms Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the...
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- September 2014 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
La Ribera Health Department (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Emer Moloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The La Ribera case studies depict an innovative low cost/high quality privately financed hospital model struggling to achieve alignment with the Six Factors. It is reimbursed by the public sector in a Spanish environment whose Consumers, Structure, and Public Policy...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Financing;
Health Care Industry;
Health Care Operations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Operations;
Business Model;
Government and Politics;
Programs;
Innovation Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Health Industry;
Europe;
Spain
Herzlinger, Regina E., Emer Moloney, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "La Ribera Health Department (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-006, September 2014. (Revised March 2021.)
- July 1997 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
numeric investors l.p.
By: Andre F. Perold and Brian J. Tierney
Numeric Investors manages equity portfolios with the use of a momentum model and a value model. The momentum model is based on earnings surprise and analysts' revisions of their earnings estimates. The firm offers long-short as well as long-only strategies, and its...
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Keywords:
Asset Management;
Cost;
Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Management;
Product Development;
Performance Efficiency;
Business Strategy
Perold, Andre F., and Brian J. Tierney. "numeric investors l.p." Harvard Business School Case 298-012, July 1997. (Revised August 1997.)
- August 2017 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine, Emer Moloney and Tonia Labruyere
Leaders of the mid-cap buyout group at Ardian, the Paris-based private equity firm led by Dominique Senequier, have been asked to review and assess the governance model the firm uses for majority-owned companies in its portfolio. The case describes the governance model...
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Paine, Lynn S., Emer Moloney, and Tonia Labruyere. "Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance." Harvard Business School Case 318-017, August 2017. (Revised April 2024.)
- September 2015
- Technical Note
The On-Demand Economy
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, James Weber and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode of competition, a model that threatens to disrupt traditional firms. Uber provides...
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Keywords:
Regulation;
Reform;
Disruption;
Disruptive Innovation;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Labor;
Employment;
Working Conditions;
Human Capital;
Rights;
Organizational Design;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Service Industry
Montgomery, Cynthia A., James Weber, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. "The On-Demand Economy." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-405, September 2015.
- 2021
- Working Paper
MLS as a Sports Product—The Prominence of the World's Game in the U.S.
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kenneth Cortsen
The purpose of this Working Paper is to analyze how soccer at the professional level in the U.S., with Major League Soccer as a focal point, has developed over the span of a quarter of a century. It is worthwhile to examine the growth of Major League Soccer (MLS) from...
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Keywords:
Soccer;
Major League Soccer;
Sports;
Growth and Development;
Organizational Structure;
Business Model;
Sports Industry;
United States
Greyser, Stephen A., and Kenneth Cortsen. "MLS as a Sports Product—The Prominence of the World's Game in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-111, March 2021. (Revised April 2021.)
- July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Pattern Brands
By: Sunil Gupta, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
In March 2020, direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Pattern Brands needed to decide how to allocate resources across its different brands. Pattern Co-Founders Nick Ling and Emmett Shine hoped to avoid the pitfalls faced by some DTC companies—such as inability to scale and...
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Keywords:
Direct-to-consumer;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Business Strategy;
Diversification;
Competitive Advantage;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
New York (city, NY);
New York (state, US)
Gupta, Sunil, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Pattern Brands." Harvard Business School Case 521-009, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 06 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision
- November 1994
- Background Note
Social Enterprise: Private Initiatives for the Common Good
Presents a model for understanding how private social-purpose ventures (nonprofit and for-profit) differ from traditional business firms in both their objectives and methods of operation. Identifies six dimensions that are useful for understanding the differences. Also...
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship
Dees, J. Gregory. "Social Enterprise: Private Initiatives for the Common Good." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-116, November 1994.
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape
- 29 Jun 2012
- News
Mass. residents react to ruling with relief
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
The Value of Local Independent Bookstores
- Program
Family Office Wealth Management—Virtual
endowment models Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe Build relationships with a...
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- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- 03 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries