Financial Product Positioning - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

during the Asian financial crisis from 1997 to the end of 1998. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708001 E Ink in 2008 Harvard Business School Case 709-443 In the fall of 2008, E Ink had View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2004
News

Toy Story

remains upbeat about her contribution to the toy industry. “We may not have been able to create a business with positive financial returns, but we have been incredibly successful at developing an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2013
News

Leadership Fellows

LEADERSHIP FELLOWS: This past winter, 19 Class of 2013 MBAs were chosen for the School's Leadership Fellows program, which supports graduates as they serve in yearlong management positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations.... View Details

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Helen Mehreteab | MBA

Helen Mehreteab COMPUTER SCIENCE, SECONDARY IN ECONOMICS WINTHROP 2023 Cohort 4 Diversity is the engine of invention. It generates creativity that enriches the world.' -Justin Trudeau Tech areas of interest: Product Management and... View Details

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

show that when consumers are forward looking, the value of concealment is context dependent; we present insights and discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Robert T. Powers

During his tenure as CEO, Powers expanded Nalco’s international presence and diversified Nalco’s product lines – moving beyond water-treatment into specialty and industrial chemicals. Under his leadership, Nalco became one of the... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

23 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

creation of new products for the welfare of American soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation, an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, he fostered the development of startup companies... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

December 2014
Case

Louis Dreyfus Commodities

By: David E. Bell

Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC or Dreyfus) is the D of the ABCD grain-trading giants. The case describes how their business works and details the strategy by which management turned the company around in recent years. The case presents a number of issues facing the... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Commodity Trading; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Financial Markets; Business Strategy; Product Marketing

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Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

03 May 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Renee Pappastratis

person or virtually, and working with each organization to determine which format will work best in reaching their goals is always a really interesting process. What was the highlight of the year for you? Managing the logistics for Company Information Day was a... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

analysis of its product lines, and presenting strategic recommendations Working with a nonprofit organization that focuses on expanding access to financial services for low-income families, in exploring and... View Details

Career Coach

Warren Radtke

Warren (Kellogg '60) is a HBS Career and Professional Development Consultant and a Confidential Advisor to C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs. He has held executive positions in public and privately held companies as well as in the... View Details

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Profile

Jonathan Assayag

of financial aid. He made tremendous progress and became a finalist for the LightSpeed Venture Summer Program. In his second-year field study, he led a team of three other HBS students that "improved a Silicon Valley startup's View Details

George A. Schaefer

A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

24 Oct 2013
News

Engineering a More Secure World

Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing courses such as Industrial Marketing... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

positioning brands, directing marketing messages, and improving products and services may be leading away from vast surveys or focus group inquiries of consumers' conscious reactions. Instead, they may... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Mohamed Farid

people, myself included, come to HBS with a specific focus," he says. "But once I got here, I wanted to position myself for the long term. This is the place to figure out what you want ten years from now, not what you want right... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than ten market share points,... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

November 2019
Supplement

United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States