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17 Sep 2001
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Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

people are a smaller number of big decisions: buying a house, buying a car, dealing with a building contractor, investing for retirement, etc. These consumption decisions tend to be made on an irregular and infrequent basis or are new in structure because of a change... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

June 2024
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Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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07 Aug 2012
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are produced and distributed by studios that take in the lion's share of revenue. In contrast, independent films are distributed by studios under revenue-sharing agreements, which give studios 30%-40% of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Dec 2010
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HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

voicemail messages. Now their words are much more authentic and can be remarkably empowering. Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information. Everyone is equal on the social network. No... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Sep 2006
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How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

functionalities and markets, and also those that will perform the most fundamental functions, which in my view are search and payments. Another category of winners will be of course the owners of valuable content—be it games, music or movies—software platforms will... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

31 Jul 2012
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Confidential Instructions for Johnson & Johnson Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Exercise 911-045 This two-party negotiation exercise features a real-life dispute between Merck and Johnson & Johnson regarding European View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2013
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acquisition in the mechanical controls distribution industry. Ferrari received support from the PE firm in negotiating and financing acquisitions but faced the challenging task of integrating them into the core business. Getting all the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2012
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Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human conversation all but unnecessary, at least from an organizational... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Party City In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market leader of designed, manufactured, and distributed decorated party goods and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jul 2006
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Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

businesses. They also distributed shares of the bank to the state governor or made a loan to the local state government—with the understanding that it most likely would not be repaid. A number of countries have experienced political... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Oct 2005
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Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

different operations to look beyond their silos to consolidate operations and share best practices to lower costs. Similarly, firms such as big-box retailers that centralize merchandising and distribution to deliver low prices must ensure... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

17 Sep 2001
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Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

in its marketing. In the period since the Internet boom, there have been a large number of very conspicuous successes.—John A. Deighton Physical distribution of groceries in the United States is a marvel of logistics. It's amazingly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

category during a selling season. Namely, by distributing its seasonal catalog of products over multiple assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single assortment—the retailer effectively conceals... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

distinctly different strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706518 Kinder Morgan, Inc.-Management Buyout Harvard Business School Case 207-123 Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

everywhere, and distributed computing. Think how these are starting to apply, for instance, in mass transit. The old model is a centralized bus and light rail system, serving fixed routes at high cost, with little adaptation to schedule... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

20 Aug 2013
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competitors, prize allocation and structure, divisionalization, open entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

13 Aug 2020
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6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

followers that they are in charge and know what they are talking about, thus have some knowledge about the pandemic. In practice this means that leadership during this pandemic crisis is distributed and shared between more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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Mercado Libre: The Best Is Yet to Come

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Fernando Fragueiro, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal

In 2024, Marcos Galperín, CEO and co-founder of Mercado Libre, reflected on its 25-year rise as Latin America’s largest marketplace, fintech leader, and most valuable public company. With operations spanning 18 countries and a robust ecosystem combining e-commerce,... View Details

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24 Mar 2015
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2575912 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-011 Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket chains and food View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2009
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expanded anti-aging line; and how to market and distribute the product internationally, particularly in France. Issues of intellectual property were also essential to the launch—in the past, Radiant had faced problems with cosmetic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

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Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

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Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

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What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

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