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  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low margin and high fixed cost. In... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 01 Jan 2009
  • News

Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Brazil’s state and local governments. Earlier Education: B.A., Business Administration, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1970 On Leadership: “A good leader creates results by giving opportunities to those who are younger and better... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Class Day and Commencement 2001

Transformed by a large, canopied stage and row after row of folding chairs, Baker Beach took on the guise of its more stately alter ego, Baker Lawn, and served as an ideal venue for the Class of 2001's Class Day and graduation ceremonies... View Details
Keywords: Marcel Acosta; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • News

Kraft to Be Acquired by Brazil’s 3G Capital

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 12 Mar 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries

Keywords: by Alberto Cavallo, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer
  • July 2020
  • Article

Higher Economic Inequality Intensifies the Financial Hardship of People Living in Poverty by Fraying the Community Buffer

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Barnabas Szaszi, Marcel Lukas, David Smerdon, Jaideep Prabhu and Elke U. Weber
The current research investigates whether higher economic inequality disproportionately intensifies the financial hardship of low-income individuals. We propose that higher economic inequality increases financial hardship for low-income individuals by reducing their... View Details
Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Economy; Income; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Civil Society or Community
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  • 13 May 2016
  • Video

Getting to know the 2016 Class Day student speaker

  • 02 Jun 2021
  • News

Hubert Joly: At the Heart of Business (Ep #103)

  • 23 Aug 2021
  • News

Power Can Be Abused, Scholars Say, or Harnessed for the Greater Good

  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Dean Nohria Addresses the Class of 2016

  • April 2012
  • Article

Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It

By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Local Range; Retail Industry
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  • Web

Events - Business History

Seminar Series, "Business, Institutions, and Regions," is hosted by Yuan Jia-Zheng and Marcel Anduiza (Harvard Business School). Please RSVP by sending an email to bhi@hbs.edu... View Details
  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Student Speaker at HBS Class Day Ceremony Recounts Her Year of Sadness and Success

  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
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  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

opportunities in going forward with this. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409065 Solvay Group: International Mobility and Managing Expatriates Harvard Business School Case 409-079 Marcel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2018
  • Article

Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries

By: Alberto Cavallo, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer
We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the... View Details
Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; International Economy; Online Prices; Billion Prices Project; Economics; Macroeconomics; Price; Internet and the Web; Spending; Economy; Global Range; Measurement and Metrics
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  • August 2000
  • Article

Building Store Loyalty Through Store Brands

By: Marcel Corstjens and R. Lal
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management
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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

No Small Beer

Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984), and Marcel Telles (OPM 10, 1985)—acquiring or rolling out new craft beer divisions in the past few years to keep up with consumers' changing palates. Here's a look at some of the HBS alumni leading the craft beer... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; craft beer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne