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  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

rise in leased lines and corporate intranets would lead to a rise in centralized decision-making at the top of the corporate ladder. Enabling Micromanagement In the past, communication often depended on faxes, overnight delivery services,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

New Releases

where they have some special hold over those receiving the money," explains Hayes. There are a number of acceptable financial contracts dating from the Middle Ages that do allow certain investments other than a straight equity investment; View Details
  • Web

Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

abaca, and other tropical agricultural products. It owned or leased property in Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, and numerous other Central American, South American, and West Indian countries. By 1930, the... View Details
  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Details and evaluates results in Esquel's 2002 initiative to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
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  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Hybrid Locomotive project. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907048 Leasing Computers at Persistent Learning Harvard Business School Case 108-014 Newly public Persistent Learning is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

of its films in-house, and to market them fan-by-fan. Owner Thomas Tull acquires the big-data-in-sports firm started by Matt Marolda and appoints him to run marketing analytics for Legendary. The methods perform well in the motion picture market. Other Hollywood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

leased or inventory purchased before outside investors or bankers must be brought into the deal. Of course, the more fully developed your business is when you begin looking for outside investors, the more clearly you can demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart
  • 27 Jul 2017
  • News

Seeing a Way Forward

patch from her eye in the recovery room, just for a second. “Soledad turned toward me and said, ‘I can see you! Normally I wouldn’t be able to see you. Now I can, with colors and all!” Excited about her new lease on life, Soledad began... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
  • Supplement

Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. View Details
Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Growth Management; Decision Making; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
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  • 26 Feb 2021
  • News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

“Our market opportunities include leasing the drone technology and proprietary seeders, and selling the seed pods to other organizations worldwide to help them reforest the planet.” Lord of the Trees is raising money and looking for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

always been alternative forms of loan capital available, including credit unions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), merchant cash advances, equipment leasing and factoring products. “Alternative players have the... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Finance in Commercial Real Estate John D. Macomber and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-067 A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. The situation is complicated by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

http://hbr.org/product/MRC-s-House-of-Cards-/an/515003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-006 Rick's Dilemma In 2014, Rick is serving as a trustee for a large family trust whose principle asset is a plot of prime real estate in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

Fashionable Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 209-012 Roberto Charvel is a young MBA graduate making his first personal real estate investment in his native Mexico City. Charvel is planning to purchase and renovate a nine-unit apartment building. Is the market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

store. In 2015 the company was developing a strategy for its Smart Platform, a model in which Ocado would lease its software, hardware, and integration services to brick-and-mortar grocery retailers seeking to build online businesses.... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

When buying or leasing a car, research has shown that consumers are much more sensitive to the size of the monthly payments than they are to the number of months over which they have to make those payments. As a result, potential buyers... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Michael Depatie

buildings. Are there properties that stand out for you in terms of what they were, and what they’ve become? One of my favorites is the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. It was the original General Post Office, built in the early 19th century, and it’s a magnificent... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

in the high single digits, so money started flowing in.” (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their net revenues, generated largely by rents and leases that make them — in good times — cash conveyor belts for their... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

record before this spill, which may also have contributed to the creation of this fund. After this, the case describes the various ways in which the U.S. government is involved in offshore oil, starting from the leasing of tracts, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

experience, and the School’s ongoing digital transformation. With the focus on longer-term planning, capital spending remained modest in fiscal 2023, declining 28 percent to $31 million. Dollars were allocated to a range of smaller projects, most prominently completing... View Details