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- August 26, 2009
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Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
By: John A. Quelch
Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the U.S. taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program.
True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details
True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they... View Details
Keywords: Government Programs; Environmental Impact; Government Waste; Customer Behavior; Economic Growth; Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing; Programs; Value; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (August 26, 2009).
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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
simulations will guide students to an understanding of the material’s practical applications. Limiting investment in traditional campus infrastructure will make it possible to charge students a competitive tuition fee and still pay... View Details
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Deborah A. Farrington
calls “the biggest success of my venture capital career,” paid off handsomely. NetSuite went public in 2007 and today has a market cap of $8 billion. Netsuite is one of the leading... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George “We made a legacy gift so that our contributions will continue after our deaths,” says William W. “Bill” George (MBA 1966) of the planned gift he and his wife, Penny, established to invest in students’... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Bibliography | Manuscript Collections | Trade Publications Bibliography Bruner, Robert F., and Sean D. Carr. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm . New York: John Wiley &... View Details
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
Chiaphua Group Vietnam (TN)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [207090]. View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
product markets and increased investment in financial markets by international investors. India, for one, has recently taken steps to facilitate the orderly development of an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
Nimi Katragadda
entrepreneurs building category defining businesses. Prior to this, she worked in Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan and later as an Associate Product Marketing Manager at Google. She graduated with an Honors... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
is marketed as the 3M ESPE Lava Chairside Oral Scanner. CloudFlare Matt Prince, MBA 2009 Michelle Zatlyn, MBA 2009 CloudFlare enables websites to intelligently protect themselves from online attacks and to help clean up malicious botnets... View Details
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Sarah Wong Archives | Social Enterprise
Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds
succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
premium. Click Here to Watch Semi-Finalists Social Enterprise Track Semi-Finalist: EarthQuake Arnaud Pincet, MBA 2023; Edmund Lee, MBA 2023 At EarthQuake, we believe investing is just the first step toward transforming the companies of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
take action to speed up economic growth and improve the standard of living by providing a stable and effective legal environment for business operations; equal opportunities for the public and private sectors; View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that destroyed the company and... View Details
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
how brands create shareholder value and why it’s vital to invest in your brand Who Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Managers and Consultants in Retail and Consumer Goods Entrepreneurs Transform your... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
fee on carbon where it enters the market. Only by pricing in external costs can we eliminate existing subsidies to fossil fuel use and shift to a clean energy economy.” Carl Ferenbach MBA 1972 | In the Market for Environmental Change "The... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
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Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
that is, overcoming the emotional distance between its brands and local consumers. By 1997, Danone Mexico had its first run-in with this problem when marketing research revealed that the general public held... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
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A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or... View Details