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September 2010
Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details

Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya

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20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

internally between autonomous divisions must use some form of transfer prices and adjust the profit plans of the divisions involved. This module demonstrates the different ways of designing an internal transfer View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

labor-intensive manufacturing process and the high prices of Zotter chocolates limit the scalability of the company, even though the founder desires to grow. While the founder has many ideas for the firm, it is not clear which path would... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

is not really making a profit on hardware sales. It prices its hardware low as a way to encourage people to buy a lot of e-books." Apple, on the other hand, makes several hundred dollars on each iPad sale, able to charge a premium because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

fear that SOX would reduce levels of risk-taking and investment in research and growth. Another concern that the act would shrink the number of IPOs has not been borne out either; in fact, the pricing of IPOs post-SOX became less... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

availability, having the right product in the right place at the right time with the right label and of course with the right price may be what really drives customer satisfaction." Another significant factor was an emphasis on minimizing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

There are two findings that we find most interesting. First, it is striking that participants failed to punish the speaker when he dodged the question asked. For example, the speaker paid no price for answering a question about the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed reservations about this approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

the best course of action for marketers faced with this complex new world of meaning-making? Deighton challenges his students in HBS's executive Owner/President Management Program to think of a witty, self-aware ad that they could create for their business for the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

value proposition to maximize value creation for both consumers and the luxury brands that supported the business model. The jury was still out on whether a rental model could attract higher income women who could afford to buy luxury brands and whether it could... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

private equity consortium led by Finansbank's previous owner and founder Husnu Ozyegin. Each of these potential buyers had different motivations for the purchase. NBG's motivations were to obtain the highest price and to close the deal as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, from early View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

accounting for contracts and investments in producers, Noble’s stock price continued to fall and stakeholders began to call for improved transparency in financial reporting. This case contains two actions that the company took in an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

purchased by an employee. Subanalyses tracked beverage purchases, including calories and price per beverage. Results: Employees self-identified as white (73%); black (10%); Latino (7%); and Asian (10%). Compared to white employees, Latino... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

invasive surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for cancer, for example) with drugs that can palliate and perhaps cure genetically-linked diseases. But like most new technologies, these are hugely expensive to develop, and initially, to manufacture. Remember the View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

permitting expropriation and the Czech people paying a large price for the misbehavior of Železný and politicians. Is there a silver lining to the case? Also, could you expand upon the "uneven playing field" idea you describe in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

different operations to look beyond their silos to consolidate operations and share best practices to lower costs. Similarly, firms such as big-box retailers that centralize merchandising and distribution to deliver low prices must ensure... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

cost-cutting; in fact, cutting infrastructure, supply chain costs, and excess expenses should be done all the time, in good times and bad. This is the approach used by ExxonMobil as it has been one of the greatest value creators in the last 100 years. Even as the View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

compared to consensual sovereign bond restructurings. A few holdout investors refused to concede and sued. These so-called "vulture" investors, hedge funds that bought the defaulted loans at deeply reduced prices and then sued... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called big data and avoid paying the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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