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  • June 2005 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Amazon.com's European Distribution Strategy

By: Janice Hammond and Claire Chiron
Describes how Amazon's distribution system evolved from the company's inception. In 2003, Amazon Europe must decide how to reconfigure its distribution network in light of expected growth, products proliferation, and geographical expansion in Europe. Examines how... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Distribution; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Web Services Industry
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    • 2014
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Marketing Reading: Brand Positioning

    By: Jill Avery and Sunil Gupta
    This Reading addresses the principles of brand positioning and demonstrates how companies can strategically craft powerful, resonant, and unique brand positions to help products stand out amidst the cacophony of the marketplace. Strategic brand positioning provides... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Positioning; Branding; Consumer Research; Defensive Strategies; Market Positioning; Marketing; Product Differentiation; Product Positioning; Strategic Positioning; Value Proposition; Customer Relationship Management; Organizational Structure; Customer Satisfaction; Brands and Branding
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    • Research Summary

    Housing Markets with Contingencies

    We model a real-estate market with three types of agents: regular buyers and sellers, and homeowners, who are agents who want to sell their current home only if they can buy another one. On the one hand, our model is a counterpart of the Abdulkadiroglu and Sonmez... View Details
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Lee
    We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement metrics—paying either for each click on its ads (CPC), or for each purchase that follows an ad-click (CPA). Our analysis extends classic auction results by... View Details
    Keywords: Online Advertising; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Measurement and Metrics; Quality; Mathematical Methods; Web Sites
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    • September 1988 (Revised December 1998)
    • Case

    Donner Co.

    By: Roy D. Shapiro
    The management of a small manufacturer of circuit boards faces a number of production and operations management problems. The first day on this case is used to analyze the production capacity of various stages in the process and to examine bottlenecks and key... View Details
    Keywords: Information Management; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Capacity; Problems and Challenges; Semiconductor Industry
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      Reshmaan N. Hussam

      Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty... View Details

      • May 1993 (Revised June 1993)
      • Case

      Friendly Cards, Inc.

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      Involves analysis of a major capital investment proposal, an acquisition of another company, an estimate of the funds required for these two possible outlays, and a recommended course of management action. View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment
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        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • April 2011
        • Exercise

        Strategic Foresight: An Exercise

        The exercise asks students to perform a strategic analysis of the consulting industry in order to identify untapped strategic opportunities. View Details
        Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Cognition and Thinking; Strategy; Consulting Industry
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        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        Fiscal Policy under Convex Supply Curves

        By: Shlok Goyal, Avi Lipton and Borui Niklas Zhu
        Recent empirical evidence suggests that supply curves are convex. Supply curve convexity is at odds with conventional Phillips curves, which rely on an infinitely elastic underlying supply curve. This paper explores the effect of supply curve convexity on the... View Details
        Keywords: Fiscal Stimulus; Fiscal Policy; Inflation; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Policy; Mathematical Methods; United States
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        • January 2008
        • Background Note

        Valuing Risky Debt

        By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
        This lesson develops the classical structural approach to pricing and hedging credit risk: Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of debt and equity claims. This model is used to make investment and risk management decisions in an over-the-counter (OTC) market for... View Details
        Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Investment; Price; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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        • 06 Apr 2017
        • News

        Harvard Business School Professor Julio Rotemberg Dies at 63

          V. Kasturi Rangan

          Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Formerly the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; apparel; automobiles; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; high technology; industrial goods; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals
          • May 1985
          • Supplement

          Milford Industries (A1)

          By: Robert J. Dolan
          Presents the salesforce performance data of the Milford (A) case in a format suitable for spreadsheet analysis using a personal computer. View Details
          Keywords: Managerial Roles; Salesforce Management; Resignation and Termination; Performance Evaluation
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          • 27 Sep 2024
          • Research & Ideas

          Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

          of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and... View Details
          Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
          • 2022
          • Working Paper

          The Disagreement Problem in Explainable Machine Learning: A Practitioner's Perspective

          By: Satyapriya Krishna, Tessa Han, Alex Gu, Javin Pombra, Shahin Jabbari, Steven Wu and Himabindu Lakkaraju
          As various post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to develop a deeper understanding of if and when the explanations output by these methods disagree with each other, and how... View Details
          Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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          • June 2017
          • Case

          Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?

          By: Kevin Schulman, Gregory Leya and Christina Beveridge
          Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care organization in the United States with over 10 million members. KP evolved from a prepayment or capitation model that focuses the organization around the efficiency of care and the health of the population it serves.... View Details
          Keywords: Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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          • October 1997 (Revised June 1998)
          • Case

          Woolworths South Africa

          By: David B. Yoffie and Anthony St. George
          Woolworths South Africa is one of the most successful retail chains in the country, modeled on Marks and Spencer of the United Kingdom. This case focuses on the sources of Woolworth's competitive advantage within South Africa and the challenges of growth in the wake of... View Details
          Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Growth Management; Global Strategy; Industry Structures; Marketing Strategy; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Retail Industry; South Africa
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          Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

          By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
          This article surveys the literature that has attempted to measure competition's effects on defense procurement. The focus is on conceptual underpinnings of models rather than technical aspects of estimation procedures. While providing valuable insight, the models are... View Details
          Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Competition; Surveys; Value; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction; Programs; Power and Influence; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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