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25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

understanding of how consumers adopt innovations with how firms effectively acquire, serve, and retain customers. The result is a lens through which to view the commercial potential of innovations and a powerful vehicle for placing a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52034 2016 Contemporary Turkish Politics Forward-Facing and Behind the Scenes: Shifts in Political Islam in Post–July 15 Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—No... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai

In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details

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25 Mar 2014
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Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

turnout among those who would have registered anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in the elections, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. Overall, these results suggest that easing registration requirements could... View Details

19 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

dealers and consumers alike. The other products in the line—and their relative prices—hinge on the midfield entry. “Midfield is a moving target.” A company controls midfield by fielding a complete product line that includes backs and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail

22 Jan 2013
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condition, made chocolate more flavorful, valuable, and deserving of behavioral savoring. Experiment 2 demonstrated that random gestures do not boost consumption like ritualistic gestures do. It further showed that a delay between a ritual and the opportunity to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2006
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Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

financial reform legislation, the gap in small business credit data was recognized and a specific provision was included to allow for more credible monitoring for small business access to bank credit. Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act amended the Equal Opportunity Act... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From my research, we see when a mismatch is most likely to occur between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

the effects of various political campaign activities on voter preferences in the domain of U.S. Presidential elections. We construct a comprehensive data set that covers the three most recent elections, with detailed records of voter... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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Keroche (D): Transforming the Core Business

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case describes Keroche co-founder Tabitha Karanja’s decision to exit the wine business following the Kenyan government’s 2007 increase in excise taxes on wine. In August 2007, Keroche introduced the vodka drink Viena Ice as a replacement for its fortified wines,... View Details

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September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the Kenyan government’s decision to increase excise taxes on wines in 2007. The tax increase would cause an average increase in price of 367% on Keroche’s fortified wines. Meanwhile, Keroche’s competitor EABL had effectively lobbied the government... View Details

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25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jan 2010
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founding conditions—branching policy, modernization, and political culture—influenced banks' development of capabilities to manage dispersed branches, and these capabilities subsequently led to variation in banks' propensity to engage in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

if today's 40 percent personal savings rate is to be reduced, thereby unleashing cash to fuel new growth in consumer spending. Creating this domestic safety net will be crucial to enabling Alibaba to grow even faster. But don't look for... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

19 Jun 2012
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Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

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Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

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Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

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Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

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