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    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 27 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 27

    failing a test) but were unique to experiences of inauthenticity. These results establish that authenticity is a moral state-that being true to thine own self is experienced as... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 2013
    • Supplement

    Transport Corporation of India (D): Business Development across Divisions

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
    Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business Divisions; Sales; Transportation Industry; India
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    • May 2013
    • Case

    Transport Corporation of India (A): The Cross-selling Conundrum

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
    Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business Divisions; Performance; Sales; Transportation Industry; India
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    • September 2017
    • Case

    Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

    By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
    In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details
    Keywords: Roll Up; Private Equity Roll Up; Aggregates; Aggregates Materials; Construction Materials; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Growth and Maturation; Engineering; Construction; Finance; Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Investment; Housing; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • September 2025
    • Article

    Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

    By: Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna
    This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... View Details
    Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India
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    • July 2024
    • Supplement

    Fail Safe Testing, Inc. (B)

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
    Abstract: Fail Safe Testing, Inc., founded in 1988, was the leading provider of fire hose pressure testing, ground ladder and pump... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Acquisition; Customers
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    Innovation Contests for High-Tech Procurement

    By: Jin Hyun Paik, Martin Scholl, Rinat A. Sergeev, Steven Randazzo and Karim R. Lakhani
    Innovation managers rarely use crowdsourcing as an innovative instrument despite extensive academic and theoretical research. The lack of tools available to compare and measure crowdsourcing, specifically contests, against traditional methods of procuring goods and... View Details
    Keywords: Open Innovation; Contests; Crowdsourcing; Nasa; Evaluation; Acquisition; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention; Performance Evaluation; Framework
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    • June 2019
    • Case

    ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform

    By: Alexander Braun, Lauren Cohen, Mauro Elvedi and Jiahua Xu
    ClearLife’s first product was a trading and analytics platform for participants in the U.S. life settlement market, the secondary market for life insurance. ClearLife played a key role in facilitating transactions and devising a common language for expressing value and... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Diversification; Strategy
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    • 15 Jun 2016
    • News

    Google's Bold Move To Reinvent Every Device On The Planet

    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India

    By: Shawn Cole, Grady Killeen, Tomoko Harigaya and Aparna Krishna
    This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Technology Adoption; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India
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      Understanding Users of Social Networks

      If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, "Why do people spend time on this?" and "How can my company benefit from the social network revolution?" you've got a lot in common with Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj... View Details

      • 31 Jul 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

      Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
      • December 2015 (Revised April 2019)
      • Case

      Chicken Republic

      By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
      Deji Akinyanju, founder of Nigerian fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the... View Details
      Keywords: Poultry; Chicken; Value Chain; Emerging Market; Chicken Republic; Amo Byng; Doreo Partners; Babban Gona; Reform; MINT; QSR; Quick Serve Restaurant; Fast Food; Corruption; Growth; Leadership; Food; Customer Value and Value Chain; Supply Chain; Infrastructure; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Governance; Growth and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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      • 25 Jan 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?

      Keywords: by Eric D. Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed
      • 2011
      • Case

      Wrapitup

      By: W. Earl Sasser
      A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Governance Controls; Revenue; Employee Relationship Management; Planning; Customer Satisfaction; Problems and Challenges; Profit; Change Management; Compensation and Benefits; Leadership Style; Service Industry; California
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      • Winter 2019
      • Article

      Value-based Health Care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist

      By: J.A. Martin, B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan and T.W. Feeley
      At one point or another in our life, we all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care.... View Details
      Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Anesthesiologists; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; United States
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      • 04 Apr 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research, April 4

      anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in and knowledgeable about the elections as a result of being able to participate in them, and 93% voted at least once in... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2014
      • Supplement

      Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez

      By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
      The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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      • October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
      • Case

      Mt. Auburn Hospital

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias
      In December of 1993, two of Boston's largest and best known hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's, announced that they were setting aside their historic rivalry to form an alliance and build a regional health network. The announcement set off a wave... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation Offer; Alliances; Networks; Social Enterprise; Horizontal Integration; Health Industry; Boston
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