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11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Nestlé's Milk Districts: Case Supplement Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Supplement 906-411 Nestlé, as the largest milk company in the world, has a history of economic development, nutrition, health, and food... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2014
News

To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that... View Details

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

the firm's business practices. We have built a simple classification system that when combined with an "assessment" model could yield powerful diagnostics on how to migrate and manage a company's portfolio View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 May 2018
Blog Post

Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers

these women current, connected, and confident to return to work or pursue new dreams." In business now for a little over three years, ReBoot Accel has shifted its dominant business model from individually-paid tuitions to corporate... View Details

February 2020
Case

Intellectual Ventures Update 2020

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

After raising $6 billion and buying 60,000 patents, Intellectual Venture (IV) was confronted with a changing legal environment. After a number of important legal decisions, including the Supreme Court's so-called "Alice" decision, IV had to shift strategy. IV sold off... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Business Model; United States

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Abstract—Sarcasm is ubiquitous in organizations. Despite its prevalence, we know surprisingly little about the cognitive experiences of sarcastic expressers and recipients or their behavioral implications. The current research proposes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

impact and on using hybrid business models to generate social and environmental value. Work Experience: Social Impact Consulting & Coaching - Principal; City Year (youth development) -Director of... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

professor of strategy at HBS. It is also important because the two countries have embraced very different models of development. The biggest source View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

Division.Silverthorne: Your work examines how the newspaper industry responded to the perceived threat of the Internet, and how that response matched—or failed to match—what might be expected from models... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

built through institutional deepening by means of dispute resolution processes. This shift, I argue, raises epistemic questions of expertise, the relationship of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2010 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Bridge International was founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise to address the educational needs of poor children in Africa. Ten schools were operational in Kenya by 2010. The plan was to franchise nearly 3,000 schools all over Africa. The case is meant to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Education; Growth and Development; Franchise Ownership; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Kenya

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of... View Details

November 2010
Supplement

LAN Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America (B)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jorge Tarzijan

Provides updated facts on Lan Airlines as of 2010. It is meant to be used as a supplement to "Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America" (Harvard Business School Case 709-410). View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation Industry; Latin America

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón Llanes and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Case

BizRate.com

By: Youngme E. Moon

BizRate is a market research firm that collects point-of-purchase customer feedback data from retailing merchants. It then makes its findings available to consumers in the form of "BizRate star ratings," which are displayed on its website. To date, its primary revenue... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Marketing Channels; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Trust; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Divisions; Debates; Retail Industry

October 1997 (Revised July 1999)
Case

Best Buy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Balaji Chakravarthy

Documents the evolution of Best Buy, an electronics retailer, from its founding in 1966 to its very successful "Concept 2" strategy in 1996, boosting its sales ($7.2 billion) past industry #1 Circuit City. Its CEO Richard Schulze offers a new vision (Concept 3) to... View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Adaptation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customization and Personalization; Retail Industry