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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees, earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details

23 Jun 2022
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All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

Microsoft, I spent a few years exploring entrepreneurship, both on the operator side – joining and founding startups in the crypto space – and on the investor side as a Venture Partner and mentor at firms including Bessemer and A16z.... View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

retail drugstores and 215,000 employees operating in 47 states in 2015. Since 2006, the company had been expanding its role in health care, moving beyond traditional drugstore alone. In 2014, reflecting its new approach, the company... View Details

March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
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Chewy.com (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries... View Details

Keywords: Pet Food; Pet Products; Retail; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Decision Choices and Conditions; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Florida; United States

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22 Dec 2020
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Dove: Maintaining a Brand with Purpose

June 2003
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In-N-Out Burger

By: Youngme E. Moon, Lucy Cummings, Sonali Sampat, Sam Thakarar and Kerry Herman

In-N-Out Burger is a fast-food chain with 171 company-owned locations in three states--California, Nevada, and Arizona. It has an extremely hardcore customer base and the company appears to be in good financial health. The primary issue in this case concerns expansion:... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Profit; Leadership Development; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Distribution; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; Arizona; California; Nevada

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January 2011
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Clean Edge Razor: Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning

By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham

After three years of development, Paramount Health and Beauty Company is preparing to launch a new technologically advanced vibrating razor called Clean Edge. The innovative new design of Clean Edge provides superior performance by stimulating the hair follicles to... View Details

Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Conflict Management; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Relationships; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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08 May 2023
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How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

case normally. That is likely driven by the algorithms used, which tend to pick up on momentum, Kerr says. Given this research, platform operators could keep an eye out for this trend and look at ways of compensating for it in the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Meagan Hill

founders and management teams to help their companies grow. She will be involved in sourcing new deals and enhancing operations in the firm's current portfolio. "BASE is a team that loves rolling up its sleeves and working on the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Sep 2003
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Mark Schwartz

1999. Schwartz’s enthusiasm for having a role in the global marketplace is palpable. When he started at Goldman in 1979, he says, “I had no notion that I was joining a global firm,” but as the company expanded, Schwartz was given many opportunities, including growing... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

2006
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Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning

To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Planning; Electronics Industry

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Kraft Accelerator

Research Foundation, or MMRF) used the tools to write their own playbook and reach a cure. There are six steps to writing this playbook: 1. Assess your readiness 2. Develop the landscape 3. Interview the key opinion leaders 4. Write the strategic plan 5. Write the... View Details

2024
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What Makes Players Pay? An Empirical Investigation of In-Game Lotteries

By: Tomomichi Amano and Andrey Simonov

In 2020, gamers spent more than $15 billion on loot boxes, lotteries of virtual items in video games. Paid loot boxes are contentious. Game producers argue that loot boxes complement the gameplay and expenditures on loot boxes reflect players’ enjoyment of the game.... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Policy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Product Design; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Video Game Industry

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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

information you use to log in on the WRDS website) on hand Know whether your machine is 64bit or 32-bit. You can check by typing “Control Panel” in the Start menu. From there, go to “System and Security”, and then click “System”. The View Details

01 Feb 1999
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A Taste of Tradition

In a family-founded business, tradition and values are as ingrained and in-escapable as one's own genetic heritage. Even when such an enterprise becomes a publicly owned and operated corporation, the family's influence can remain an... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross