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  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

influencers such as attorneys, accountants, and insurance agents furthered expansion. Gaining 10 new clients from referrals is worth a 1-to-2 percent increase in assets under management View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
  • 03 Oct 2019
  • News

How to Market Innovations to Small Mid-Sized Businesses

  • October 2020
  • Case

LifeBank Nigeria

By: Brian Trelstad, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
The aspiration of addressing maternal deaths in Nigeria, which were mostly caused by blood shortages, led Temie Giwa-Tubosun to found LifeBank in 2015. LifeBank developed an online platform that enabled hospitals to connect and purchase blood from local blood banks and... View Details
Keywords: Systems Design; Social Business; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Health Care; Blood; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Finance; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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    Geoffrey G. Jones

    Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

    Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking

      National Customer Orientation: An Empirical Test across 112 Countries

      Customer orientation is a central tenet of marketing. However, less is known about how customer orientation varies across countries and time.  Mintz, Currim, and Deshpandé (Eur. J. Mark., 56: 1014–1041, 2022) propose a country-level construct, national customer... View Details
      • 01 Jul 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: July 1, 2008

      overall business offering. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508003 The Allstate Corporation Harvard Business School Case 708-485 In 2007, Allstate was the number two property View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Julian De Freitas

        Julian De Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit, and Director of the Ethical Intelligence Lab, at Harvard Business School. He earned his PhD in psychology from Harvard, masters from Oxford, and BA from Yale. He teaches... View Details

        Keywords: insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry; insurance industry
        • 28 May 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: May 28, 2008

        MaterialsChina in Africa: The Case of Sudan Harvard Business School Case 308-060 This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk. Purchase the case:... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 15 May 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

        ‘guardian and ‘chauffeur.’ While the first connotes safety, the second conveys the idea that you can sit back and relax while the vehicle drives you around. Our results suggest the second label may leverage... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
        • 06 Aug 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

        Civil wars have been the dominant form of conflict around the world since World War II, resulting in approximately 20 million deaths. But it's not just sociologists who are diving into the roots of conflict. Increasingly, economists are examining these events to learn... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • 22 May 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

        borrowers who have fallen behind in an aggressive attempt to collect on the loans. But the company had bought these loans from a series of banks and other financial institutions, View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • April 2023
        • Case

        Burning the Sails to Save the Ship: The Pilati Family Dilemma

        By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
        Octavian Graf Pilati, rising generation member of an Austrian princely family, prepared to sell the palace his family had held for over three hundred years. In recent years, the Pilati family lands had been leveraged as loan collateral for an international venture that... View Details
        Keywords: Family Office; Family; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agribusiness; Family Business; Property; Identity; Culture; Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governance; Crisis Management; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Austria
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        • 05 Sep 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: September 5, 2007

          Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • January 2013 (Revised April 2017)
        • Supplement

        Maxum Petroleum, Inc.

        By: W. Carl Kester
        Maxum seeks an oil-price hedging strategy that yields substantial cash during oil price spikes, is affordable under ordinary circumstances, and is easily managed. It is striving to avoid a repeat of the challenging situation encountered in 2008 when spiking oil prices... View Details
        Keywords: Hedging; Options; Commodities; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Strategy; Volatility
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        • 14 Feb 2023
        • HBS Case

        Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

        Sweden has long seemed like a social-welfare capitalist dream come true, where companies and labor unions collaborate in harmony with government support. Swedish citizens are among the wealthiest in the world, View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert

          Stephen A. Greyser

          Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

          Keywords: sports
          • 2014
          • Article

          Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity

          By: Jooa Julia Lee, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
          People believe that weather conditions influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we predict and find that bad weather increases individual productivity and that... View Details
          Keywords: Productivity; Opportunity Cost; Distractions; Weather; Performance Productivity; Cognition and Thinking
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            Rosabeth M. Kanter

            Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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            By: Ryan W. Buell
            From creating flight itineraries online, to interacting with tellers to complete complex banking transactions, to engaging with the government to address civic problems, customers are playing an increasingly vital role in the performance of operations in a broadening... View Details

              Krishna G. Palepu

              KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the... View Details

              Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking