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- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
For restaurateurs, receiving a Michelin star can be a mixed blessing. Certainly it's a rare and celebrated honor—the French company bestows its one-, two-, and three-star ratings only to a select few restaurants worldwide. However, a star begets expectations of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
the framework for the firm's culture. "Similarly," he continues, "I decided to lay Greylock's financial foundation by bringing together a group of limited partners who had some relationship with me and often with each other, rather than... View Details
- November 2019
- Supplement
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble
This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Canada; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Mehta, and Matthew Preble. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-704, November 2019.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
GREENWALD: A savvy, successful approach that combines marketing tactics and psychological insight. Can Rachel win NBC's "Match Off"? Her story: how Rachel met Brad The veteran of several high-level marketing... View Details
- July 2016
- Supplement
Mahindra Tool: Project Economics
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
The case describes Mahindra Lifespace Developers’ (MLDL), a unit of Indian conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra, foray into the affordable housing segment. MLDL sees a huge opportunity in selling apartments to the burgeoning population of urban workers, which is badly... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
publicly traded companies. But the relationship between the spectacular rise of sustainable investing and the growing number of “green patents,” as defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has not... View Details
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
to build a relationship with the customer and communicate the brand in an experiential way. There’s still a purpose for physical shopping in today’s environment; it just has to feel different from what we’ve gotten used to as consumers.... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
you're buying a car, and then you find out six months later that the car will cost 25 percent less. It’s terrible.” The perceived value of an object by buyers is essential, especially if you look at customers as relationships rather than... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
them quite a lot. Ina is interested in marketing as a subject area so at least once a week we have coffee chats and debates about the cases.” John Harry (MBA ’21, Old Section B) expressed that he and his wife, Lauren, could not be happier... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we suggest that the differences in prior findings may be due to the failure to separate the processes of knowledge acquisition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2017
- Teaching Plan
'Clarín Lies!': Bias, Post-Truth, and Populism in Argentina's Media War
By: Rafael Di Tella and Sarah McAra
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-008. View Details
- July 2016
- Case
The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its customers were approached by competitors while regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Law; Antitrust; EC Regulation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Multinational Firms and Management; Laws and Statutes; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations
Goldberg, Lena G. "The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun (A)." Harvard Business School Case 317-009, July 2016.
- November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
SAP America
By: David A. Garvin and Artemis March
SAP America has grown at an explosive rate. This case describes the company's strategy, organization, and culture, with special attention to its approach to partnering and its sales and consulting process, which have been instrumental in allowing growth to proceed. Now... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; United States
Garvin, David A., and Artemis March. "SAP America." Harvard Business School Case 397-057, November 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
on the relationship between short selling and securities' prices. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212079-PDF-ENG Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
version 1.0 of that concept. Remind us what that was, and how version 2.0, which you introduce in this book, updates this idea. Schlesinger: The basic relationships between employees, customers, and financial results, in that order, that... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the reciprocal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
do; they get them with the confirmation of a purchase rather than ahead of time. Were there a five-day waiting period before an order could be placed, the current system would perform better. But people want to act quickly, and in markets... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Communication in Multicultural Networks: Deficits in Inter-cultural Capability and Affect-based Trust as Barriers to New Idea Sharing in Inter-cultural Relationships Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua and Michael W. Morris Abstract Innovative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace