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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Working PapersFemale Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines Authors:Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Abstract Female 'empowerment' has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Block by Block
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Curtis Wong (MBA 2019) Founder and CEO, Cloud Apartments Concept: Cloud Apartments is a product company within the rental apartment space. Its flagship View Details
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
de Chalendar. Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work , Harvard Business School case, 2019. With William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg. The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs And Boost Productivity By Helping... View Details
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806069 Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children Harvard Business School Case 507-006 In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category, Disney Consumer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Financials: segment data
FA GEO LSEG Workspace: Locate the company by name or ticker symbol Click on the Financials tab and select Segments. Use the drop-down under View to select Business Line by Segment or Geographic View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
deep purpose just about feel-good ideas or is it worth something? How much attention should be given to the bottom line in measuring the payoff from deep purpose? How should we measure the payoff? How much does "deep purpose" matter to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
The line gets blurry for shoppers when retailers won't honor their online prices in-store. (Kwangmoozaa) While shopping for my 10-year-old daughter’s Halloween costume last October, I pulled out my smartphone and hopped online to see if... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
the proprietary Mac as the central hub of Apple's product line despite falling market share. Eventually he was persuaded to shift focus and allow the iTunes music platform to be used on PCs as well as on... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
environment. It sets the rules." Apple, meanwhile, has made an art form out of curation, not only by limiting its product line but also by providing quick, clear explanations--starting with the way the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- Web
The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the division of research, and a professor of investment banking at HBS. The case presents a labor problem in a hypothetical shoe manufacturing plant of the same name: workers were routinely leaving the plant 45 minutes early, adversely affecting View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
eventually led to his being named CEO in 2019. It’s rare for today’s executive to climb the ranks at a single company. Christou found that the experience of rising from the front lines to the C-suite left him ideally positioned to lead... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 26 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
place in the second semester. Field Global Capstone builds on interpersonal and team-based skills learned in START, LEAD, and Inclusion and culminates with student teams going into global markets around the world to help develop a new View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
comfort, connection, and respect for its product and the communities Starbucks serves. CEO Howard Schultz has reignited Starbucks with innovative new offerings and by refocusing workers on the company's core values.Photo: iStockPhoto So... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
(“use of knowledge in a prudent way”), and trustworthiness. One can raise all kinds of questions about this research. First, the time line for cause and effect extends over a very long period of time. Obviously, religion is only one... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
advice to restaurant owners, staff, investors, and patrons that we offer below. How did it deteriorate so quickly? Restaurants are universally labor intensive—by any productivity metric they rank among the least View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
women are engaging in less severe types of misconduct,” he says. “If anything, we would expect to see women less likely to be punished.” Another possible, if more cynical, explanation is that women are less productive than their male... View Details