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21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

received royalties for the patented use of hoodia, a plant that the Bushmen had used as an appetite suppressant for tens of centuries. In neither instance was profit sharing a simple matter of goodwill on the part of the patent holder.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Management Science The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth By: Khan, Urooj, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen Abstract—We investigate the relation between the growth in corporate profits and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

pure e-tailer as well as two competing multichannel retailers. Even though self-matching is likely to reduce a retailer's profits, with some consumers paying the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

corporations and environmental stakeholder groups will be structured. Follow the Small? Information-Revealing Adoption Bandwagons When Profitability Expectations Are Related to Size Authors:Andrew A. King and Ann Terlaak... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had achieved profitability and strong growth. However, growth had strained the company's infrastructure, resulting in frequent software crashes. Software ease-of-use was also a serious... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2002
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How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

forced to consider global competition as a factor in planning. In addition, the wartime disruption of foreign multinationals enabled U.S. companies to profit from the postwar boom without effective competitors in many industries. A more... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

be honest with ourselves about what our true profitability is and stop playing games with restructuring charges and other needs. On the policy maker side, focusing on the microeconomic part of the economy, I think [there are] a couple of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Safaris find a sustainable growth path that will allow it to profitably expand its business and meet its shareholders’ interests while still achieving its priority purposes of protecting and investing in the ecosystems and communities on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2017
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Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

and having a great idea that looks promising in terms of making a profit is not enough in China. There are 87 million members of the Communist Party in China. If you have more than 50 employees in your company, you have to make sure that... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

around a tenth of Rio Tinto's profits and over a quarter of Mongolia's GDP. But the terms of the deal were being threatened by elections in Mongolia and a change in voter sentiment towards the project. With around $6 billion invested, Rio... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited from increased public sector outsourcing. In 2012, for the UK's Ministry of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

Publication:,em>Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011) Abstract The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2009
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Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

would be well-placed to monitor the financial condition of a mega bank and set the compensation of its senior executives in order to attain its dual goals of maximizing long-term profits for its shareholders without taking risks that... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

sovereign wealth fund of the Emirate. The question is: Can Le Cirque find a new model of complementary relationships that will be as profitable as its relationship with MGM Mirage? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a simple model of two-sided platforms, in which one side (W) values not just the quantity (i.e., number) of users on the other side (M), but also their average quality in some dimension. In this context, platforms might... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2024
Teaching Note

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between... View Details

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21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

in sequence, map onto how very young children play. These components are (1) focusing on substitutes and borrowing selectively from peers, (2) testing assumptions about profit logics before committing to one, and (3) pausing with a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

involve tensions between local imperatives and boundary-crossing integration. And there are obligation paradoxes, when the goal of maximizing profits for shareholders clashes with the desire to generate benefits for a broader group of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

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Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

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Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

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