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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Not-for-profits like Water Aid and the Bill Gates Foundation, others in the country. The idea of starting the India Sanitation Coalition emerged from that. Because what was needed was a platform where everyone could share their... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
shares are held by the family. While Akın is the founder and chairman, the family is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the business. Night scene of Istanbul, where The Koç Groupwas founded. ©iStock/muhur The interviews are part... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
sense of purpose could use that to guide innovation. One of the exciting parts of SuperCorp and the rise of this company model is that it's actually a way to develop products and services faster, to get more innovation, and to showcase... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
social networking, which both change and enhance existing service offerings. Another way that Weber Shandwick is adapting to new technologies is through an Internet-based platform called WeberWorks (3.0) that fosters communication and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
which reduced air loss and prevented compression, resulting in greater protection. This saran "barrier coating" had been a key sales point that Sealed Air emphasized to its customers. Low-cost competitors had begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
developing countries. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708030 Opening Pandora's Box Harvard Business School Case 607-135 Pandora.com provided a highly customizable online radio service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
several of which are described in our book. All these companies compete in markets that have long existed, and in which they were minor players up to a few years ago. None offers products or services that are markedly different from those... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
inventory (a proxy for support). Our findings highlight important factors for successful implementations of 360-degree systems as complements to explicit incentives. Finally, we share some lessons learned with respect to performing field... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
calculate breakeven, and charts and graphs that help visualize the results. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510080-PDF-ENG Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis Thomas Steenburgh and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a vendor selling products or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and the right to sell their View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
determine the direction workplace envy takes. Contributors are drawn from many countries and from an extraordinary range of disciplines to share their insight: experimental social psychologists offer insights from lab studies,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
first vaccine doses administered in the West, and saved thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. In The Long Shot, Bingham shares an insider’s view into how the Vaccine Task Force beat the odds, and delivered a scientific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
managers tend to track members of the top management teams of firms (CEOs, CFOs, Presidents, and Board Chairs) and tend to share educational and location-based commonalities with the specific insiders they choose to follow. Collectively,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create significant value for shareholders by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
And she succeeded. A veteran of the peer group industry, who has trained and mentored hundreds, Corner-Stolz cracked the code for MX as well as for how to skillfully moderate PaCs. She’s been teaching her formula for success through her Peer Advisory Council Academy... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
failures of early online grocers such as Webvan, grocery remains both the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery delivery service called AmazonFresh in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne