Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (832) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (832) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 16 of 832 Results →
  • 13 Jun 2014
  • Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is expected to attract the attention of 3.2 billion people worldwide. During one month, 32 teams will vie for the trophy of best football (a.k.a. soccer) team in the world. With 64 matches and assuming... View Details
Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports
  • December 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Vincent Marie Dessain, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
The Dutch "Verenigde Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer Cooperative" (VBA) was on of the world's largest flower exchanges. Around 6,300 flower growers, one half of them located in the Netherlands, used the auction to sell cut flowers and plants to more than 1,000 wholesalers. In... View Details
Keywords: Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Trade; Market Entry and Exit; Financial Markets; Segmentation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Netherlands
Related
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

customers by matching them “by hand” with early suppliers (e.g., Etsy scoured craft fairs to sign up artisans); acquiring them in bulk (Uber ran promotions during concerts and events); and doing whatever it took to make their offerings... View Details
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

co-creation of markets and value, multinationals without firm-specific advantages, and born-global firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50242 November 13, 2015 Harvard Business Review If CEOs Care About... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Research Summary

Building Capabilities in Professional Service Firms

One of the most distinctive aspects of professional service firms is that the vast majority of the people who work in them are directly involved in serving clients.  Long-term success in a professional service firm requires obtaining and developing the right... View Details

  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Benetton Group S.p.A., 2000

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2000, Benetton was one of the leading mass fashion competitors in the world with approximately $1.9 billion in sales across 5,500 stores in 120 countries. But the company's fortunes seemed to be on the wane. Operating profits had fallen 9% from the prior year to... View Details
Keywords: Fashion; Strategic Change; Strategic Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Performance Consistency; Management Teams; Strategy; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Italy
Related
  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Company, 1887–1943 Ian K. Ballantine Ballantine Books, 1952–1974 Louis F. Bantle UST, 1973–1993 Ohio C. Barber Diamond Match Company, 1888–1909 Don H. Barden Barden Communications, 1981–Present Bruce Barton Batten, Barton, Durstine and... View Details
  • March 2022
  • Article

Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products

By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar
We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce
Related
  • Web

Research Areas - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Research Areas 0ms HBS faculty conduct research on a wide variety of topics. In the application you must indicate your top three choices of research areas, in order of preference, from the... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

legal obligations Globalization has opened new opportunities and markets for businesses, but it has also brought new complexities. Countries have different legal requirements for layoffs in areas such as required severance pay, advance... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

illustrate the process and power of market design through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent “Incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

cars, for instance. Source: “Second Change: Life Without Student Debt” by Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda, and Vincent W. Yao. All of these results show that policy interventions in the student loan market should not be considered a zero-sum... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

agents. Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets Author:Lars Ehlers Periodical:Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract Roth and Rothblum showed that for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tied to financial markets fell sharply. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, legislation increasing government regulation of the financial industry. While financial markets were... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

  • December 2023
  • Article

When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments

By: Christian Kaps, Simone Marinesi and Serguei Netessine
Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, their only access to electricity often limited to operationally-expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the day and... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Renewable Energy
Related
  • November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry
Related
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

affect market outcomes, and that market outcomes in turn affect investors’ beliefs. The authors develop a behavioral model of the credit cycle featuring such a two-way feedback loop, which can View Details