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- June 1999 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Snapple
By: John A. Deighton
Tells the story of Snapple's rise and fall, and poses the question "Can it recover?" Many soft-drink brands flourished in the 1980s serving New York's Yuppies, but only Snapple made the big time. It went from local to national success and was poised to go international... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Industry Growth; Failure; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry
Deighton, John A. "Snapple." Harvard Business School Case 599-126, June 1999. (Revised December 2003.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
organizations. The keystone's importance to ecosystem health is such that, in many cases, its removal will lead to the catastrophic collapse of the entire system. For example, WorldCom's failure had negative repercussions for the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
complete tax documents for submission to HBS. Failure to supply these forms within 30 days from notification of award will lead to forfeiture of your GO Fellowship award. We suggest you consult your tax professional for questions about... View Details
- Web
Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
company reviews, over 70,000 job listings, virtual recruiting events and a community where users can be honest about their triumphs and failures either as themselves or anonymously. Evolve Evolve is a professional development company for... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
wages scored 0.16 standard deviation units higher on an index of labor market engagement. Rates were even higher at 0.21 units for socially constrained women with husbands who subscribed to social norms against women working. After three... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
to answer a few questions about your reading preferences? We know you’re busy, so we'll be brief. Take our survey Establish a high-level product roadmap that extends no more than 12-18 months; you have no idea how your products or the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
entrust their money to one of the big investment banks or brokerages—Citibank, Chase, Merrill Lynch, or Bear Sterns—which then invests it for them in hedge funds. Funds of funds, the word is on Wall Street, are the next bubble—the next place for financial View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Faculty - Private Capital Project
unit. His research examines when firms and entrepreneurs fail to make use of advice, new skills, and market opportunities and how these failures magnify existing inequalities. Nori Gerardo Lietz Senior... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
Interfaces). The implication for IT management consulting is a rather complex demand to provide both strategic perspective along with implementation savvy on managing the considerable risks of not being able to realize the strategic competitive advantages of computing... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
infections Synthetic rubberx Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Television sales expand dramatically Transistors used in portable radios and calculators Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Man walks on the moon Color TV market grows Microchips... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
years. Our aim was to come up with an objective measure of performance—one that was unrelated to arguments about market power, monopoly position, or predatory tactics. This meant we excluded any consideration of measures like View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
prevailed through the difficulties of finding capital, and through the difficulties of her own very limited social position. In a market in which there weren't many realms where women could play, she found a way. "She lived on a... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
not had lower costs of equity (lower stock returns), consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documented in other samples. A calibration suggests that a binding 10 percentage point increase in Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
altered focus has been the key to success of current discount voucher services. Q: Do you have any plans to continue researching this subject? A: Absolutely. We're currently talking to merchants that have used discount voucher services, and we hope to conduct empirical... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
Failure to get that pricing right inevitably leads to decline. You can see examples in businesses like ridesharing. The first player in the space was a company called Sidecar that never was able to figure out the right pricing to drive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace