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15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the View Details

15 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders

Keywords: by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman & Max H. Bazerman; Food & Beverage

01 Sep 2010
News

Dare to be Different

nonfiction, lots of different genres — which means that I always have lots of strange stuff in my brain. You reflect on the Web as a marketing channel, including the interesting observation that in the broadcast media, people are used to... View Details

Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank;Youngme Moon; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

27 Mar 2023
News

A Sporting Chance

families, he launched projects collectively worth more than 500 million and helped create Spain's first real estate investment trust. He took over at Metrovacesa in 2016, just as the domestic market was taking off. By the time of its IPO... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

October 2012
Case

Monsanto

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability, and climate change will all impact the global food system. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology; Food; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Strategy; Agribusiness; Globalized Markets and Industries; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

approaches have an important role to play in the mix. The course will explore business approaches, including CSR and CSV, its opportunities as well its limitations. We will study how new “venture philanthropy” attempts to serve that segment. We will look at how View Details

March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Aurolab: Bringing First-World Technology to the Third-World Blind

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Aurolab is the in-house producer of IOLs (required in cataract surgery) for the Aravind Eye Care System, a group of charity hospitals with the largest volume of eye surgery in the world. Aurolab's manufacturing capability and capacity had long exceeded the requirements... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Production; Mission and Purpose; Performance Capacity; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy; India

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because of the number of independent charter schools in New Orleans, a View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

Sometimes, maintaining a toehold in a market was a best-case scenario that ultimately reaped dividends—something today’s managers might want to remember when considering any emerging market where the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Koita Foods

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Elie Ofek and Michael Norris

In 2018, Mustafa Koita, Founder and CEO of Dubai-based organic milk company Koita has to decide whether or not to pursue an investment from a potential competitor who is coming into his local market. View Details

Keywords: Organic Milk; Mom Blog; Entrepreneurship; Cash Flow; Food; Growth Management; Investment; Social Marketing; Ownership Stake; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Arab Emirates; Dubai

Article

(When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious Salience and the 'Sunday Effect' on Pro-social Behavior

By: Deepak Malhotra

Prior research has found mixed evidence for the long-theorized link between religiosity and pro-social behavior. To help overcome this divergence, we hypothesize that pro-social behavior is linked not to religiosity per se, but rather to the salience of religion and... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Religion; Behavior; Societal Protocols

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December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

The Metropolitan Opera (A)

By: Anita Elberse and Crissy Perez

In April 2007, the New York City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program has received... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Advantage; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015 International Encyclopedia of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

a me-centric view of life, then what seems rational to me as an individual may appear irrational in the context of social norms." Michael Linz asked to what extent a response to the question relies on how we frame the problem? As Jim... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2008
News

Negative Ad Power

politics, rarely appear in consumer marketing campaigns. To be sure, marketers of breath mints and antidandruff shampoos play on social anxieties; Volvo raises automotive... View Details

Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

what about social responsibility?" In summary, there seems to be a strong feeling here that if creative destruction is what it takes to outperform the market over long periods of time—the objective... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2021
Case

Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details