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Dana Hoffmann
science graduate, and the pair immediately began discussing new venture ideas. They entered the startup world with a company to sell a sensor for tennis rackets to help improve performance. But it was classes such as the Founders’... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front capital costs for facilities, selling into commodity... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
reach a lot of people that way.” The alternative might be less targeted initially but with bigger potential in the long term: pursuing partnerships or affiliate programs with larger entities that already sell to families, like the AARP.... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
sell seeds, submitted his business plan, and secured a startup loan from a local bank. Samad’s older brother, Abdus Subur, also took the I Create training and started a seed farm. The brothers now own two seed farms––Kaveri Seeds and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front capital costs for facilities, selling into commodity... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per store, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
insufficient institutional checks and balances. At Enron at the end of 1999, the options that were vested were worth $2.4 billion. That is too much temptation to put in front of people—temptation to sell out secretly, "cooking the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
companies pay more attention to outbound than inbound calls. "As financial institutions attempt to sell more to new or existing clients," they write, "they lose sight of customer service. As service drops, retention becomes... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Photographers, 1950–1972 (Series XI) Test photographs taken by a selection of photographers whom Polaroid employed to test and critique its products. Marketing and Advertising Records, 1928–2004 (Series XII) Documentation of the company’s efforts to market and View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
“Our market opportunities include leasing the drone technology and proprietary seeders, and selling the seed pods to other organizations worldwide to help them reforest the planet.” Lord of the Trees is raising money and looking for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there were forty-five Starbucks stores... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
entering the direct-to-video business by producing animated, full-length films that sell directly to retailers. When it comes to licensing, we don’t like to risk our own capital. Since I came to the company in 1999, we’ve done 1,500... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
have meat inspectors stamping each individual steer. The meat packers themselves must make sure that all the product they sell is of good quality, as represented. I believe the regulatory tools we have in place are enough. Considering its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
shocks, i.e., they must buy or sell at the same time. Two assets are "co-fragile" if their owners have correlated trading needs, even if the holdings of these owners do not directly overlap. We formalize this idea and apply it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
dialogue with Michel about selling the company or expanding their relationship. Michel wondered if the time was right to sell or if he should grow Affinity Labs further with the hope of creating a company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
shape of the compensation function—the bonuses offered to advertising partners as volume increases. Typically the more you sell, the more you get paid, and disproportionately so. Sell 20 percent more and you might get paid 25 percent... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
of our team. I imagine neither the window extension or transparency tactics were very time consuming or distracting to implement (well, perhaps the former took some selling to their investors!), but they certainly make this company stand... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
deleveraging that made them sell European sovereign debt. But the ECB's most powerful weapon - intervening in the bond market - is still locked away. Draghi needs to create consensus among the German "hawks" who worry about the... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
business opportunities. "The basic idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks," says Iyer. "If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have space to View Details