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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
they would desire and their purchasing ability. Similarly, there's a low infrastructure in many of the countries in Africa, especially outside of the capital, and parts of South Africa would look similar to that. How do you distribute a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
Forest Reinhardt Since brewing is a marketing-driven business, finding ways to differentiate a beverage from its competition is crucial. Heineken’s chief marketing officer took a novel approach: take the complicated processes of production and View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in global teams. Faultlines, formed along the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
VendQuest (A): The Business Idea
By: Dwight B. Crane and David Foster
A potential founder of a company is considering whether to start up a new enterprise that would link parts distributors with customers in the construction industries via the Internet. This case describes the industry and the potential advantages to distributors and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; Distribution; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Customer Relationship Management; Business Ventures; Construction Industry
Crane, Dwight B., and David Foster. "VendQuest (A): The Business Idea." Harvard Business School Case 203-065, January 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
organizational legitimacy and the kind of moral order we want to create as a society," Anteby explains. The same issues could help us come to grips with the murky legal and ethical areas surrounding the digital age, for example. "We can think of the View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
distributed today that it’s relatively easy to access them no matter where you’re located." In Thomas Kermorgant’s words, "Outstanding companies create the concepts that are then formalized and spread by gurus. Outstanding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Consumer Power; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Healthcare; Transition; Transformation; Trends; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Management; Marketing; Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; South America; North and Central America; Middle East; Europe; Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
by the way, and I think eventually he did, too.) An idea was forming in my head, though. And in his, and in a few others’. And the idea was that we needed to set up a brand-new fund to collect and distribute donations that were going to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
simplifying decisions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53178 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—During the period 2007–2016, S&P 500 firms View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
provide a contrast with BP's payments, the case depicts the payments made by Exxon after the Exxon Valdez spill. The U.S. regulatory regime is then briefly compared with regimes in other countries. After a brief description of the way the fund set up by BP sought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Over the past 30 years, there have been significant changes in the distribution of earnings (cross-sectional variation has increased, with increasing left skewness) as well as in corporate payout... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2019
- Case
Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Juan Alcácer, Alpana Thapar and Youssef Abdel Aal
After 15 years of steady growth and expansion, Edita, a leading Egyptian snack producer, faced a series of challenges in the wake of the Arab Spring. In January 2011, the Egyptian Revolution sparked political and economic turmoil that reflected the waves of protest and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; Business or Company Management; Price; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Expansion; Currency; Food and Beverage Industry; Egypt; Africa; Middle East
Elkins, Caroline M., Juan Alcácer, Alpana Thapar, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times." Harvard Business School Case 320-026, November 2019.
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
store customers or trading them to urban wholesalers and jobbers for needed supplies. Bartering reduced storekeepers' dependence on currency. It also created informal distribution networks for locally produced goods. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
managers to distribute these cash flows to capital providers, both debt and equity holders, rather than reinvesting it in the firm. As I mentioned before, project finance resembles LBOs in this respect. Second, the use of high leverage... View Details
- December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks
By: Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane
On August 13, 2024, Starbucks announced that Laxman Narasimhan who was appointed as the CEO only in September 2023, was stepping down as CEO and board director “with immediate effect.” Laxman would be replaced on September 9 by Brian Niccol, CEO since 2018 of Chipotle... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management Succession; Cost Management; Labor Unions; Working Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Service Operations; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and David Lane. "Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks." Harvard Business School Case 125-040, December 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne