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- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
firm's mission is to empower under-resourced small business owners and accelerate their success by providing high-impact and customized strategic, financial, operational, and marketing support. "The Acceleration Project caters to people... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The Sixes. Girard was all in as founder... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
A share market skyrocketing. We discuss the cause and the consequence of investor sentiment on the cross-listing decision of firms and the responsibilities of corporate managers to maximize existing shareholder interests through catering... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
allow work to be done. Second, by allowing trusted paramedics to "save lives" even if this means bending the rules a bit, physicians cater to the paramedics' occupational identities. Paramedics become who they aspire to be,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to improve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
data—in some cases in exchange for free services or lower prices—as well as firms that pledge to keep a lid on people's information, but often charge consumers higher prices. Firms competing with privacy tend to benefit from engaging in different degrees of information... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
future,” DeCoons says. “Even mainstream brands like Under Armour and Adidas want to be part of those experiential events, because they want to cater their products to support those lifestyles.” There’s an opportunity, he adds, for... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
funding leads to a net increase of 2.3 patents. Though valuing patents is difficult, we report a range of estimates for the private value of these patents using different approaches. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50038 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
disappeared, Treasury quickly ramped up its issuance of money-like claims. However, as the anticipated debt burden grew, concerns about rollover risk eventually trumped the desire to cater to money demand, and maturity structure was once... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational, but it is one that caters to the different strengths of its players and encourages creative development. “For each of our games, we focus on three crucial ‘moments,’” explains Furlong. The situational moment involves when and... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
moving "downmarket" without diminishing their prestige or alienating existing customers. The authors suggest various ways to cater to new, non-core customers in a way that differentiates the newcomers from a brand's core... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
economic uncertainty of the time and emphasizing the importance of focusing on creating long-term value. The stock immediately lost 8 percent of its value, but Polman saw no other way out of the dilemma between catering to short-term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-083 Improving Repurchase Rates at zulily In February 2015, zulily cofounder and CEO Darrell Cavens faced a major challenge in his business, a Seattle-based daily deals site that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
securing specimens from a new set of actors in the commerce in cadavers. These actors are legal entrepreneurial ventures that have been operating for more than a decade in the United States; they cater to domestic users and international... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate policy choices. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
of U.S. representatives and senators in the early part of the 20th century. We also show under what conditions profit-maximizing media will cater to general (less affluent) voters in their coverage, providing a counterbalance to special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
for chefs, Watson for investment bankers, and Watson for Top 40 songwriters. “Our ability to augment expert knowledge”—to even cater to it—“is unique,” Kenny says. This specialization appears most notably in health care, a sector where... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
displays, and insurance form services also contribute to an enhanced customer experience. Greenberg notes, "We're simply bringing in modern merchandising techniques to meet the needs of an underserved population." Take Good Care also View Details