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  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

and Latin America. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53078 Harvard Business School Case 818-025 Bluemercury: Leading High Growth Businesses No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the UK. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Books

University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private companies don't have. As such, the team decided to use sales growth as a proxy for investment opportunity responsiveness, since a rise in sales should trigger a rise in investment by any given firm. Changes in state corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

first job experience in a restaurant. Restaurants have provided significant management and ownership opportunities for women and minorities. Restaurants are also big business. In 2023, US restaurant industry sales exceeded $1 trillion representing a $3 trillion View Details
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

"get excited"), which lead them to feel more excited, adopt an opportunity mindset (as opposed to a threat mindset), and improve their subsequent performance. These findings suggest the importance of arousal congruency during the emotional reappraisal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

  PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

services obtained in return, reduces general anti-tax sentiment, and holds satisfaction with tax payment stable despite increased compliance with tax dues. With tax noncompliance costing the U.S. government $385 billion annually, providing taxpayer agency could have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

seeking to pioneer radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past, these cases show, to renew itself for the future. [...] A New Lens On Growth One company that has used an... View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

made to bear the full cost of that decision. So that's another indirect way whereby we can use our economic influence to help businesses and individuals make proper, fully, risk-aware decisions. DM: But it also sounds like there's a point... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire way to strengthen the economy, improve society, and provide endless opportunities for entrepreneurs. Big opportunities. But View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities
  • 12 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Doubts about Applying to HBS

I am a first generation Mexican-American born and raised in farming and immigrant communities in Arizona. I earned my undergraduate economics degree from Arizona State University. After graduating, I worked for Bank of America Merrill... View Details
  • December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Ebro Puleva

By: David E. Bell, Antonio Garcia de Castro, Rocio Reina Paniagua and Mary Louise Shelman
Once Spain's largest sugar company, Ebro Puleva has been transformed through a series of international acquisitions into the world's largest package rice company and second largest pasta company. In 2009, Chairman Antonio Hernandez Callejas must decide how to proceed... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; Spain
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  • 14 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Today, the concept of “sustainable innovation” seems commonplace and is generally accepted as a viable path balancing business growth with... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

relationship between sales and wage volatility at the firm level is stronger since 1980, is present only in large companies, and is stronger in services than in manufacturing companies. World Technology Lags Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bart Hobijn, and Emilie Rovito... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog

the BostonXChange (Jaylen Brown and Jrue & Lauren Holiday’s efforts to empower Boston’s creative, economic and cultural future, see here for more information); and 3-5 companies that we have sourced through local intermediaries. See here... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Devtosh Khare

markets and economic trends in the region and to make some contacts with India's business leaders," he explains. "Then I'll be ready to go out on my own." He believes that India's service sector offers the most exciting business... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell