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- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
after 1989. Also describes the various options open to coffee producers, including recartelization, diversification, fair trade, and selling to boutique markets, the strategy of the Thousand Hills Coffee Co. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006
meat in California to bans on dwarf tossing in France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
Acquisition (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-020 GovDelivery Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
Introduction to Short Selling Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School Note 212-079 We provide a primer on the market for securities' lending of equities in the United States. We describe the basic market structure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether or not the content provider maintains control over the pricing of its own good. If the content provider View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single, fixed assortment—the retailer effectively conceals a portion of its full product catalog from consumers, injecting uncertainty into the consumer's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
next day with a videocamera to record what he was saying. I'm sure he was taken aback, but I told him I was serious and that I thought this could help us both. We talked some more, and with a little bit of selling he agreed. A few of my... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With the new vision setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
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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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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
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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
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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