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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
open competition. If it makes economic sense to deliver healthcare to someone who's poor, then people will compete to do that. If it's commercially viable, you actually address what today under the definition of healthcare as a public good View Details
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
distribution will fundamentally change the number and variety of products that consumers purchase. However, there is sharp disagreement about what type of change will occur. Proponents of the "long tail" idea argue that a sharp... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
and identity change interacted. We find instances in which urgent focus on design change consumed top management attention and crowded out identity change; in which experimentation in design made it premature to develop a new identity;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
embeddedness. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311055-PDF-ENG Gazelle in 2010 Andrei Hagiu and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 711-446 Gazelle has pioneered a reCommerce intermediation model: it buys used electronics from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
inward FDI. After 1945 many developing governments pursued policies which restricted foreign-owned firms. India and Turkey were among the countries with particularly difficult policy environments. This paper explores why Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Overview
Rayport focuses his teaching and research on launching and scaling technology ventures, with emphasis on digital media, e-commerce, and multi-channel retail. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Digital Marketing; Digital Innovation; Digital Media; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Advertising Technology; Technology Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Service Operations; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; European Union; China
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Overview
I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Feedback; Personal Development; Needs; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Networks; Groups and Teams; Family and Family Relationships; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
- October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Module Note
Supply Chain Management
By: Willy C. Shih
This note on supply chain management provides background for the seven class supply chain module in the Technology & Operations Management required curriculum course taught at the Harvard Business School. This module includes four broad topics: sourcing and supply... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Information; Supply ＆ Demand; Supply Chain Industries; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; Japan; China
Shih, Willy C. "Supply Chain Management." Harvard Business School Module Note 619-023, October 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
into an uncertain future, consumed forecasts indiscriminately. Reprinted with permission from Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters, by Walter A. Friedman. © 2014 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
focused on building a strong regional presence in Latin America. Even if Telefónica has to sell its assets, or itself, its regional position will command a high price. Keep Your Eye on the Ball. A big deal takes lots of time and consumes... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
that's sitting offshore. That's obviously relevant to business people as well. There's a pretty fundamental question about why we tax corporate income at all. Economists will tell you that corporations don't pay taxes, some person pays taxes, whether it's the owners or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
marketing as a promising promotion tool for advertisers to reach and engage with consumers cheaply and quickly via word-of-mouth. Mekanism's president is contemplating expanding its services to other advertising content and media (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
would benefit both firms and consumers to increase the cap on unskilled immigrants in specific industries such as hospitality, nursing homes, and agriculture. Here, foreign-born workers can work in jobs that native-born workers are... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
and consumer lifestyle products? Philips sent teams of designers, engineers, and consultants into hospitals and clinics to interview patients and a range of providers, from clinicians to administrators and other staff. These teams... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman