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  • February 2022
  • Supplement

SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
As of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants almost 20... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues. Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    Christina M. Wallace

    A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

    Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
    • 13 Dec 2016
    • News

    Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal: Business Creates the Color of Foods

    • April 14, 2017
    • Article

    Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

    By: John A. Deighton
    United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Training; Air Transportation Industry
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    • 27 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Buy Big, Sell Small

    least 75 percent of India’s consumer goods sales despite the significant inefficiencies of an outdated business model. “Kiranas are limited-inventory, 2,000- to 5,000-square-foot shops that don’t always get on-time deliveries or access to... View Details

      Anita Elberse

      Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products; consumer products
      • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
      • Case

      Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
      In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
      Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
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      • March 2003 (Revised March 2004)
      • Case

      P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Traces changes in P&G's international strategy and structure, culminating in Organization 2005, a reorganization that places strategic emphasis on product innovation rather than geographic expansion and shifts power from local subsidiary to global business management.... View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Globalization; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Business or Company Management; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Japan; Taiwan; Europe
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      • 21 Jan 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: January 21, 2009

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-007.pdf Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Jeans Are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement Authors:Neeru Paharia and Rohit Deshpandé Abstract While many consumers say they care about issues such as... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Dec 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

      decisions and shipping policies in determining purchase outcomes and profits. Consumers are less sensitive to shipping fees than to product prices, but free shipping for orders above the minimum is a strong motivator for increasing... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • November 1987 (Revised March 1993)
      • Background Note

      Global Semiconductor Industry--1987

      By: David B. Yoffie
      In 1987, the global semiconductor industry was coming out of the deepest recession in its 40 year history. The note examines the competitive dynamics of this industry over time, the nature of its technology, and the sources of competitive advantage. The role of buyer... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Globalization; Crisis Management; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Technology; Semiconductor Industry
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      • Web

      Publications - Faculty & Research

      COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the National Emergency, business... View Details Keywords: Revenue ; Small Business ; Health Pandemics ; Spending ; Consumer Behavior Citation Read Now Related Kim, Olivia S., Jonathan A.... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

      By: Rebecca M. Henderson

      Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details

      • 2011
      • Book

      The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World

      By: Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey
      Defines the fundamental concept of Net Promoter, explaining its connection to your company’s growth and sustained success.
      *Presents the closed-loop feedback process and demonstrates its power to energize employees and delight customers.
      *Shares new and... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Centric Initiative; Customer Defection; Customer Engagement; Customer Experience; Customer Focused Organization; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Network Effects
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      • 11 Nov 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: November 11

      systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software, and connectivity in myriad ways. These "smart, connected products"-made possible by vast improvements in processing power and device... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2016
      • Book

      Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

      By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
      The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price.... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consumer Behavior
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      • 11 Dec 2023
      • Blog Post

      Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

      Kyle Leahy (MBA 2011) stepped into the CEO role of Glossier in May 2022 ready to take the brand to new heights. Since its founding in 2014, Glossier had disrupted the beauty industry, created a powerful community-driven brand, and was... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
      • Web

      PhD Programs - Doctoral

      both economics and business school students, receiving the benefits of a PhD from Harvard’s Economics Department along with specialized access to Harvard Business School faculty and resources. Health Policy (Management) The PhD program in Health Policy (Management)... View Details
      • Web

      Faculty & Research

      consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily prices from major U.S. retailers to Harmonized System... View Details