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  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

(low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most profitable customers that are the most attracted by superior quality alternatives. Our results appear to have long-run... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

game-changer. Programs are developing that allow teachers to share lesson plans and streamline grading. On a district level, technology can help pair teachers and students. "Currently, nearly 80 percent of school funding is spent on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 13 Jun 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency start-ups, including what would become KBRA. When the firm lured ex-Moody's executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, "I... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

106 eyeglass stores that to date has delivered word-class eyeglasses to 1.5 million people at the base of the pyramid at an entry price of under $15, when previously this was only available at $125 or more.  It was profitable and readying... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

as money-market funds. Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink: Why 40% of Your Business Is Unprofitable, and How to Fix It by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes (DBA ’80) (Penguin Portfolio) Given the uncomfortable truth that it’s possible, even easy,... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

HIV/AIDS and Business

Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that any View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy

it’s not right.” The company’s approach to growth is no different. “One of the benefits of a family business is that you’re able to plan for the long term,” Kearsey says of the brewery founded in 1777 by Dorset farmer Charles Hall. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: Leah Flickinger; manufacturing; craft beer; leadership; management; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 15 Oct 2024
  • News

Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • News

Growing from Within

locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy, and—naturally—his regular order.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Buy Big, Sell Small

ApnaKlub—which leases warehouse space and trucks—sources the requested products from brand-name manufacturers and distributes them to the wholesalers, who deliver within a reliable time frame. “We leverage technology to bring our customers supply consistency, better... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

emphasize expanding sales, with profitability to follow with a lag—rather than having to produce high profitability along with rapid expansion from the start. And, finally, a key virtue of acquisition from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509024 Breaking through Action Plan Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059 The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

goal. When you consider that your job-perhaps even your industry-may disappear, you have no choice but to take control. Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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