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Paula C. Rettl
Paula Rettl is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary areas of expertise are comparative politics, political economy and political behavior, with a focus on Latin America and... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- Video
Healthcare at HBS
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
firms may exploit personal information to tap into complementary revenue streams, such as advertising. Personal information can be used to improve the targeting of ads, increasing advertisers' willingness to pay. In addition, firms may... View Details
- June 1998 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Microsoft CarPoint
CarPoint.com was Microsoft's Web-based entry into on-line automobile retailing. While it could not, in fact, "sell" or deliver any cars, it could shift much of consumer search, comparison, and decision-making, including pricing, the traditional car dealer to the Web.... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Avnish S. Bajaj, Steffan Haithcox, and Michael V. Kadyan. "Microsoft CarPoint." Harvard Business School Case 898-280, June 1998. (Revised August 2000.)
- 14 Jul 2014
- News
Pay Attention To Your “Extreme Consumers”
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Amber Wade
Amber is a marketing, brand and creative strategy vet with experiences spanning consumer tech (Microsoft), consumer packaged goods (Unilever) and most recently media and entertainment (creative agency).... View Details
- 2013
- Chapter
The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective
By: G. Jones
This chapter explores the impact of the global beauty industry on beauty ideals. It shows that as the industry internationalized from the late nineteenth century, there was a homogenization of beauty ideals and practices around the world. Western and white beauty... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Globalization; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
Jones, G. "The Global and the Local in the Beauty Industry: A Historical Perspective." Chap. 1 in Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Thomas Kuhne, 25–40. Worlds of Consumption. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Kyle Schirmann
Kyle Schirmann is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His primary interests are science-based innovation in the Global South and the creative and cultural industries. Before joining HBS, Kyle worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg... View Details
- December 1993 (Revised September 2003)
- Supplement
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (D)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Prosecutors in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Consumer Litigation reflect on their case against the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Family Ownership; Cognition and Thinking; Food and Beverage Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 394-105, December 1993. (Revised September 2003.)
Ray Kluender
Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details
- August 2015 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Apple Pay
By: Sunil Gupta, Shelle Santana and Margaret L. Rodriguez
On September 9, 2014, in front of a packed audience in Cupertino, CA, Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, announced the much anticipated launch of Apple Pay. "Our vision is to replace this [wallet] and we are going to start with payments." Cook then invited... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Digital Services And Strategy; Launch; Mobile; Mobile Payments; Apple; Payments; Smartphone; Apple Pay; Eddy Cue; Jennifer Bailey; iOS; Iphone; Marketing; Product; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Finance; Credit Cards; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; United States; United Kingdom
Gupta, Sunil, Shelle Santana, and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Apple Pay." Harvard Business School Case 516-027, August 2015. (Revised December 2016.)
- March 2022
- Article
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy
By: Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm
When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined bureaucratic sources of capacity, leaving unexplained why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in goal attainment. We... View Details
Meckling, Jonas, and Jonas Nahm. "Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy." Comparative Political Studies 55, no. 3 (March 2022): 493–523.
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Social Learning
One major area of my research is social learning: the ways and extent to which people discover what they want and need from the behavior and opinions of others. Social learning takes many forms. Probably most obvious is word of mouth—the advice and... View Details
'Leke Jegede
Oluwagbemileke Jegede is a doctoral student in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) unit at Harvard Business School. She received BBA and LLB degrees from Amity University and the University of Sierra Leone in 2015 and 2016 respectively,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
entertainment in advertising. In 1963, British advertising pioneer David Ogilvy, in his book Confessions of an Advertising Man, argued that ads should be all business, selling products by informing consumers... View Details
- 18 Nov 2019
- Video
Adi Godrej
Adi Godrej describes the early growth of India-based consumer products Godrej Group's businesses... View Details
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Anand Burman
Anand Burman, Chairman of Dabur, one of India’s largest manufacturers of natural medicine and consumer products, discusses the Ayurvedic tradition behind his company’s products. View Details