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  • 21 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between these Kenyan farmers and View Details

    Matthew Rabin

    Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

    Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research... View Details

    • January 1991 (Revised May 1991)
    • Case

    Hoechst in the United States (A)

    Describes the U.S. market for chemicals following WW II to the present and the attention of the market for global chemical companies. Traces the involvement of Hoechst in this market up to the 1980s when minimum growth has been offered through Hoechst's U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Chemicals; Acquisition; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • Person Page

    Full Biography

    By: Rohit Deshpande

    Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details

    • 26 Jun 2017
    • News

    How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

    • January 2008 (Revised April 2009)
    • Case

    Wyoff and China-LuQuan: Negotiating a Joint Venture (A)

    By: James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian
    Through stalled joint venture talks between Pennsylvania-based Wyoff Corp. and China-based China-LuQuan, strategic and cross-cultural negotiation challenges are explored both from American and Chinese perspectives. Wyoff, a leading US chemical company has been seeking... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Style; Strategy; Chemical Industry; China; Pennsylvania
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    • 25 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

    also determined that other African American women would be able to rise above their circumstances. Walker's name change from Sarah Breedlove to something both catchier and more dignified was a smart career move that reflected her style... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • Article

    Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?

    By: Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth
    The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys. However, buying and selling organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Policy; Health; Market Transactions; Attitudes; Trust
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      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • 21 Sep 2015
      • News

      A Real Path to Shared Prosperity in America

        John A. Quelch

        John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

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          James L. Heskett

          James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

            Anita Elberse

            Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

            Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

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            • 26 Apr 2023
            • In Practice

            Is AI Coming for Your Job?

            The launch of ChatGPT seems to have reignited doomsday fears about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing workers en masse. Are these fears prescient or overblown? A recent survey shows 62 percent of Americans think AI will majorly impact... View Details
            Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
            • November 1995
            • Case

            "Marketing" at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

            By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
            Describes the history and unique operating principles of the most successful corporate law firm in the country. Closes with a lengthy quotation by Martin Lipton, who is one of the firm's founding partners and who is described in an American Lawyer article as the "Elvis... View Details
            Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Reputation; Business Strategy; Legal Services Industry
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            • December 2014 (Revised November 2015)
            • Case

            Alibaba Goes Public (A)

            By: Krishna Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan, Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane
            In 2014 Alibaba debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, creating not only the largest IPO in history but this initial desire to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was denied due to the company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did... View Details
            Keywords: Dual-class Share Structure; Alibaba; IPOs; VIE; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; United States; Hong Kong; China
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            Book on the Rubber Industry:

            The preliminary title is "Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Institutions & Market Power, 1870-1910".

            The book is intended to cover all stages in the rubber chain, from tappers to manufacturers. It thus spams all crude rubber producing regions, a... View Details

            • 16 Oct 2012
            • News

            On Marriage, Kidneys and the Economics Nobel

            • 18 Jan 2012
            • News

            Politics, Tax Code Said to Stymie U.S.

            • May 2016 (Revised December 2016)
            • Case

            Camposol

            By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
            With $289 million in 2015 revenues, Camposol is a Peruvian grower, exporter, and marketer of fruits and vegetables, with a focus on the high-growth, high-margin blueberry category. Camposol aspires to become Peru’s first multinational branded produce company. It... View Details
            Keywords: Blueberries; Avocado; Asparagus; Agriculture; Peru; Retail; Produce; Agricultural Production; Branding; Brand Strategy; Commercialization; Camposol; Aquaculture; Agribusiness; Marketing; Trade; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Family Business; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Food; Supply Chain; Distribution; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Distribution Industry; Peru; South America; United States; China
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