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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
animal feeds. In Europe, its food business spanned all stages of the industry, from fishing fleets to retail shops. Among its range of ancillary services were shipping, paper, packaging, plastics, and advertising and market research.... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
Publications November 2014 Wiley Encyclopedia of Management Management as a Profession By: Khurana, Rakesh, and Eric Baldwin Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119972515.html November 2014 Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
each complementing the other. Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract : We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3)... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts
- Web
The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide, of which Baker Library holds a sixty-year run, allow... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
the highest commissions-impeding price competition among GDSs. Against this backdrop, American considered how best to cut its GDS costs. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909035 Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2022
- Supplement
Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-401, May 2022.
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
produces research addressing issues of present and future importance to managers, regulators, and policy-makers. Finance Unit Our intellectual roots are based in a long line of scholars from Robert Merton whose collaborative work on risk management and option View Details
- May 2022
- Supplement
Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-400, May 2022.
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
http://hbr.org/2010/10/the-power-of-alumni-networks/ar/1 Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? Authors:Shawn A.Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses
By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Price; Risk Management; Marketing; Product Positioning; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J., Bruce Issacson, and Marie Bell. "Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses." Harvard Business School Case 596-087, March 1996. (Revised February 1999.)
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
consequences of senior leadership’s choices, says Kerr. “It’s easy to be critical and say that Walmart should be doing more, but when students review the company’s actions over the past five years, they have to confront the fact that every time the View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
repetitive read that made it accessible to a broad audience—just the opposite of Adam Smith’s voluminous The Wealth of Nations, which was published in expensive folios and directed at scholars and elites. Influence broader than thought The View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
use the service but are now discussing whether they should segment the market and focus on a particular type of client. They also wonder whether Augmedix’s current pricing appropriately reflects the value their service provides. Lastly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
than 70 percent of Black, Latinx, and rural workers from landing jobs, even though they may have the actual skills to do the required work. Many companies rely on machine learning algorithms that automatically weed out job applicants who don’t meet certain View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
give more, that giving indeed causes increased happiness, and that these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2001
- Working Paper
Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-026, September 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
implement principles of open and distributed innovation. Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne