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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
experimentation," he said. "I'm incredibly optimistic. We just raised a new fund at Highland. I've never seen so much enthusiasm in our shop as I've seen in the last few months." Andrea Silbert "I think Springboard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
sellers to merchandise companies, and has built relationships with artists by providing a one stop shop to update current band information across most major music sites simultaneously. BandPage's most recent project has been to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
how he might retain the delicate balance among stakeholders while still maintaining liquidity in the market. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808100 The Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
business world with revelations it had been paying bribes for contracts on a massive scale—eventually admitting to payouts in 60 percent of its markets, totaling $130 million to $275 million a year. Shopping trips to Hong Kong were the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
is as necessary in this digital age, but Kanter noted that highways are still used most for work commuting. "Even if we say the world is going digital, we still need physical infrastructure," she said. "If we did all of our View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
succeeded in producing and distributing My Name is Khan in the country. The first thing Fox did right? "They set up shop in India." The company's previous release of the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar to the Indian market created... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Co. Ltd. Founded in 1986, Red Star had become the leading department store in China for furniture and home equipment products (bathroom, lamps, textiles complements, etc.). The business model of Red Star was to provide adequate space for vendors (that rented the space)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and square," was a central component of the new strategy. The scheme initially had three pricing tiers and eliminated typical sales promotions in an attempt to simplify the shopping experience for consumers, thus moving J.C. Penney... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
http://hbr.org/search/613080-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-024 Porto Adriatico In March 2012, Jack Dawkins is in the early stages of leading the development of an old navy yard in Croatia into a mixed-use waterfront community of residences, hotel rooms,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
among many consumers than any political party, trade union, church, or mosque. Indeed, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz sought to make his coffee shops the "third place" in our lives, after home and work. Marketing is an... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of your employees. It's the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers being... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
non-market strategy. While there have been excellent studies highlighting the importance of preemption in Private Politics, political ties in Public Politics, and forum shopping in Integrated Political Strategy, it is unclear if these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
incentives, firms should align with governmental signals and embrace environmental innovation. Regarding bureaucratic alignment, firms should avoid regulatory shopping and integrate local and global standards. Finally, to address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
In mid-February 2009, Dubai Duty Free Managing Director Colm McLoughlin received the January sales report. He left the report lying on his desk unopened and went to walk around the shops as he did every morning. When he returned, he sat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off coupon they received from their online grocer with the purchases the same customers make when View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
a former assistant of his from setting up shop in the same town. But judges in the fifteenth century did not look favorably upon noncompetes, as the Bubonic plague had largely decimated the European labor supply. Legislation of the time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
shopping environment. We build a demand model in which consumers choose how to allocate their spending over different product categories to maximize their direct utility under contingent free shipping. We estimate model parameters using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
the Act's provision. Thus, many opportunities open up for entrepreneurial pursuits. In this context, mom-and-pop shops have emerged alongside more traditional academic-housed programs to procure whole-body donations. As an illustration, a... View Details