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Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth
Summary Strategic agility and an unyielding focus on growth are essential for the success of any organization, especially when new technologies such as generative AI are profoundly changing how businesses acquire, engage, and retain... View Details
- Dec 21 2015
- Testimonial
Gaining Personal Insight Through Professional Development
- June 2011
- Supplement
Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors, Faculty Spreadsheet (Brief Case)
By: John A. Quelch and Carole Carlson
- June 2011
- Supplement
Reed Supermarkets: A New Wave of Competitors, Spreadsheet Supplement (Brief Case)
By: John A. Quelch and Carole Carlson
- 2021
- Working Paper
Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets
By: Valeria Giacomin and G. Jones
This working paper discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Foundations; Philanthropy; Business Leaders; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Emerging Markets; Ethics; Values and Beliefs
Giacomin, Valeria, and G. Jones. "Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-117, April 2021.
- March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria
By: Meg Rithmire and Debora L. Spar
In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems. Her firm partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a large project to develop the local dairy industry as a way to facilitate equitable growth and... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Rural Scope; Growth and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Equality and Inequality; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; Nigeria
Rithmire, Meg, and Debora L. Spar. "ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 721-026, March 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- April 2001
- Supplement
Acer America: Development of the Aspire
Consists of five segments. Segment 1 shows Culver and Pai discussing the tensions between Taiwan and the United States and the resulting performance problems with Aspire; Segment 2 features Culver and Shih describing the changes Acer made as a result of the problems... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Transformation; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Strategy; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Taiwan; United States
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Acer America: Development of the Aspire." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 301-805, April 2001.
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance... View Details
- May 2010
- Article
Aggregate Market Reaction to Earnings Announcements
By: William Cready and Umit G Gurun
This analysis identifies a distinct immediate announcement period negative relation between earnings announcement surprises and aggregate market returns. Such a relation implies that market participants use earnings information in forming expectations about expected... View Details
Cready, William, and Umit G Gurun. "Aggregate Market Reaction to Earnings Announcements." Journal of Accounting Research 48, no. 2 (May 2010): 289–334.
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
Bill George, Professor of Management Practice Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development." Working Paper, June 2017.
- August 2017
- Case
RoboTech: Storming into the U.S. Market
By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Rachel Gordon and John J. Lafkas
This case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Product Launch; Competitive Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; Singapore; United States
Bartlett, Christopher A., Rachel Gordon, and John J. Lafkas. "RoboTech: Storming into the U.S. Market." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-501, August 2017.
- March 2012 (Revised February 2013)
- Background Note
The Hybrid Vehicle Market
By: Michael W. Toffel and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon
This note describes the hybrid electic vehicle market, the results of different automaker strategies, and the environmental regulatory issues that can promote or inhibit market growth in the United States. Introduces students to the technologies and regulatory aspects... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
Toffel, Michael W., and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon. "The Hybrid Vehicle Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-084, March 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
- 09 Nov 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies
- December 2009
- Supplement
TruEarth Healthy Foods: Market Research for a New Product Introduction, Instructor's Spreadsheet (Brief Case)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
definition of a disruptive technology, less for a lot less)? Or is it something to be regarded as providing just one of several important inputs to future product development and marketing decisions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2022
- Chapter
Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter explores differences in the making of a ‘modern’ fiscal state under colonial and sovereign rule. Focusing on African and Asian colonies (1820–1970) and their respective European metropoles, it argues that while the introduction of ‘modern’... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Modernization; Colonial Rule; Economic History; Sovereign Finance; History; Taxation; Africa; Asia
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Fiscal Development under Colonial and Sovereign Rule." In Global Taxation: How Modern Taxes Conquered the World, edited by Philipp Genschel and Laura Seelkopf, 67–98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- 12 Dec 2017
- Video
Devi Shetty_Requirements of Healthcare in Developing Countries
- 19 Apr 2021
- Podcast
72. Making Your Own Luck in Emerging Economies: Innovative Strategies for Creating New Markets
In this episode, Efosa Ojomo returns to The Disruptive Voice to discuss his latest research at The Christensen Institute’s Global Prosperity group. He and his colleague, Lincoln Wilcox, recently published a report highlighting six innovative strategies for creating new... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- Conference Presentation
To Beta or Not to Beta?: The Pedagogy and Execution of a Web-based New Product Development Exercise
By: Andrew McAfee and Alan MacCormack