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  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

how to unlock goods and services for the remaining four billion." Poverty is the "normal state" of the world, he said. Fifty percent of global citizens live on less than $2 a day. Poverty reigns, despite the fact that since... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

essential blue-collar positions. Says Harvey, "Firms must respond to these realities with higher wages, which make the goods and services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 21 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

somewhat faded from popular discourse amid advancements in artificial intelligence. However, in an article published recently in California Management Review, Wu and Clough say they believe it’s only a matter of time before the metaverse... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in emerging markets since the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2011 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Wal-Mart Update, 2011

By: David B. Yoffie and Renee Kim
In 2011, Wal-Mart was the world's largest company with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right growth strategy moving forward. U.S. same-store sales had declined for eight consecutive quarters and Wal-Mart was... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Global Range; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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  • 2014
  • Chapter

The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption

By: Diego A. Comin
We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between economic growth and the intensive and extensive margins of technology adoption. The "extensive" margin refers to the timing of a country's adoption of a new technology; the "intensive" margin refers to... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Microeconomics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Technology Adoption
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  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

toy manufacturer), they both embraced the concepts and tools of Enterprise Risk Management. Over a number of years, at both firms, risk management transformed from a collection of "off-the-shelf" acquired tools and practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2023
  • Case

The END Fund: To Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Global Range; Decisions; Investment Funds
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  • 2008
  • Book

Business Market Management: Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value

By: James C. Anderson, James A. Narus and Das Narayandas
For business-to-business marketing courses. The authors build the book around a framework of understanding, creating, and delivering value. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Business Processes; Value
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  • 17 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

the reputation of one of the greatest global brands is sullied by a tragic alligator attack on a small child. The marketer has no greater responsibility than to ensure the safety of the consumer. So why do we not hear more about safety?... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50666 Harvard Business School Case 916-414 Unilever's New Global Strategy:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Ebro Puleva (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for 510026. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Financial Crisis; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

  PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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