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  • 24 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were selected from among 17 high-caliber... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2014
  • HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

insurance brokers on a Saturday morning at the local Holiday Inn and bring the prospects to them," Quelch explains. Despite the low commissions on sign-ups, the volume of applicants made it worth the brokers' while. "AHCT said... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

it expects to leverage its international operations to expand Beringer's presence in other nations. What troubles me most, though, is that these types of acquisitions appear to involve a great deal of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

  Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2018
  • Article

Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde
This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust... View Details
Keywords: Economic Preferences; Economics; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Global Range
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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. Disclosure of non-financial reports has generated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

by $2.1 trillion in 2010 dollars. By either measure, cash flows received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the probability of having children for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Kerry Group: Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Tonia Labruyere and Tonia Junker
The Irish company Kerry Group, one of the leading global players in the taste and nutrition industry, wants to ensure its future growth in developing and developed markets. Founded in 1972 as a dairy cooperative, it had grown into a provider of taste and nutrition... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Nutrition; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Range; Market Entry and Exit; Customer Relationship Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

of attention. The design of work units, spans of control, and spans of accountability are the main structural tools to influence work and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Commitment to Leadership

community and a set of organizational capabilities so that talented individuals can collaborate and engage in discovery-driven learning and integrative decision-making. At HBS, we see our alumni as partners in all we do. Our graduates are... View Details
  • May 2019
  • Background Note

Geographic Inequality Primer

By: William Kerr, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama
There are large and persistent divides between urban centers and rural areas in America due in part to structural causes. This primer focuses on the demographic differences between urban and rural areas within the United States and the unique challenges facing rural... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Rural; Development; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; United States
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  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

figured out the business model, bringing the operation to scale is a necessity for their own bottom line. Investments will flow automatically without many gut-wrenching debates on theories of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Eileen Stephan

Eileen offers over 20 years of professional experience in recruiting, career management and career coaching in both the corporate and academic worlds. Her most recent position as Global Head of Graduate... View Details
Keywords: Education; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Retail; Social Enterprise
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

empowerment are tied for me, along with an understanding that change in this country starts with how capital flows and the most senior people in power,” she said. She knew the statistics, women and People of... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

some way, their collective impact is severely diluted by a lack of coherence and consistency. Instead of trying to be all things to all people, nonprofits should pick a niche, craft an operational mission,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47436 The Logic of Agglomeration By: Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This review... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

characterizing these networks, our primary measure is "hierarchy," defined as the degree to which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel