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- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
obvious sector for such an ecosystem, it is not the only area in which an inclusive growth strategy can work, Kaplan says. Palladium helped set up a service supply network for retail and hospitality companies in El Salvador. That country... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
featured are Rishad Premji (MBA 2005), chair of Wipro Ltd., which is supporting COVID-19 relief efforts in India; Ameera Shah (OPM 42, 2012), promoter and managing director of Metropolis Healthcare, a diagnostics business in India’s... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
that allow for unlimited shelf space and access to whatever products we want, whenever we want them—and if technologies make it cheaper to produce these goods—then demand will shift to the tail of the demand curve. His suggestion was that View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers and promotes discussion of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the integration of media markets to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Miguel (MBA 1997) and Mariana Cal. Molino Cañuelas is a vertically integrated food business where management encourages innovation and growth. As the company continues to expand, the case explores whether it should follow the same strategy internationally or develop... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their circuit to help them distinguish their own pursuit from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
the glasses to the eco-friendly packaging used to ship them. The drinking glasses are sturdy, compact, and Montessori-friendly. Since we promote zero-waste life, they are shipped in carbon-neutral packaging. Moreover, each purchase... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
Manager for three years. His next step was back into the corporate world to provide stability for his growing family. “I joined SAP and was promoted seven times in ten years eventually leading the entire Latin American team,” Dzodan said.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
tenure from 2011 to 2013 at JCPenney, where messages from top executives were so murky, the retail company was described as a place where “communication goes to die,” the researchers write, leading to rumors and distrust within the firm.... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
said yes and immediately asked to also build an energy practice. “Oil prices were soaring, silicon prices were fluctuating, and solar and wind were huge topics at that time. I saw that as an opportunity,” she notes. “So I quickly got View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
David E. Bell and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 510-013 CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product development process, advertising and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
liquidation, and class-level as well as overall recovery rates. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1573311 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Second Thoughts About a Strategy Shift By: Ofek, Elie, and Jill Avery Abstract—A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
bridging. We conclude by highlighting fruitful avenues for cross-disciplinary dialogue in the hope of promoting future research on emerging markets and defining the next frontier of institutional theory in organizational analysis.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
China, planned to use its network of 5,000 dealers to sell the laptops." It wasn't just PC makers that were attracted to this new market. Chip giant Intel did not want to relinquish a potentially lucrative market to its key rival AMD, an early supporter of OLPC.... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
three markets." Globalization and the Poor Half of the world's population lives in poverty, but their needs and desires are no less real. Efforts by governmental and non-governmental agencies to promote economic globalization and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
trade off the risks of alienating a loyal franchised retail channel against the benefits of accessing new customers? The problem is exacerbated when the new channel is a low-cost alternative such as the Internet. Such issues are perennial... View Details