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  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

Apparel (B) The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations for failure focus on Quincy's ambitious value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

create a new opportunity for CS, increasingly faced with competition from other agencies, to offer lower cost surrogacies to intended parents. However, the launch of an outsourced surrogacy service would threaten the company's core value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

to offline media, which made attribution modeling more difficult. Decisions pertaining to product extensions, channel expansion beyond DTC e-commerce, and geographic expansion were also on the table to prove that Hubble's customer value... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

social impact framing that emphasizes a venture’s social-environmental welfare benefits, which research has shown to elicit stereotypically feminine attributions of warmth, diminishes these penalties. We initially investigate this View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

operate according to a business model that can be broken down into four elements: a customer value proposition that fulfills an important job for the customer in a better way than anything competitors offer;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

participants along the way to the end customer understand, perhaps for the first time, the levers that motivate their partners up and down the line. As a result, all participants are better primed for the give-and-take required to create a View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

value proposition while working under intensive time pressure. Finally, the team had to overcome a series of operational problems after the initial market launch. The case study retraces the initiative's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

firm Silver Lake, who is examining whether to open an office in Brazil. His decision will depend on the state of the Brazilian economy, of the private equity industry, and, ultimately, on the value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM) growth from 2007 to 2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes evolving business models and value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

conceptual model and propositions that highlight the attributes of effective workforce diversity initiatives and the process through which workforce diversity initiatives become effective. We focus on knowledge-intensive work and argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

foundation for being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership can also be seen as the foundations not only for great leadership, but also for a high quality personal life and an extraordinary organization. One can see this as a "value free" approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic crash risk exposure of the collateral. We then apply Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition Two (MM) to split the cost of bearing this risk between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

value creation for shareholders overall. August 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics Last-place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael Norton Abstract—We present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

positioning of the brand to move upmarket or down market? Which value proposition offered the most future promise: functional differentiation, lifestyle differentiation, or celebrity endorsement? Should the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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valuation. The first half of the course develops the framework through two main topics: Reporting strategy analysis: assessing a firm's value proposition and identifying its key View Details
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

bringing in components piecemeal and assembling the phones in India. The business was a huge success, creating the early foundations of what would become Bharti Tele-Ventures, India’s leading private-sector telecom with a market value of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Davis Abstract—As firms scramble for competitive advantage, boards—once the cautious voices urging management to mitigate risk—are now calling for breakthrough innovation. Indeed, avoiding risk is now seen as the riskiest proposition of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or... View Details