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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
tend to enjoy export success in product segments for which their domestic consumers favor high levels of quality. French wines succeed internationally because they enjoy domestic market regulations that... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
two-and-a-half-day simulation puts students in charge of a brewery for 7 fictitious financial quarters. Working in four- to five-person teams, players make decisions on everything for running their business: types of ingredients to use, packaging, pricing, and customer... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
microfinance and product design to open a new market segment based on the needs of low-income customers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805064 ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead in many other growing segments... View Details
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Bank/Broker-dealer back-office segment Helping the CEO determine how to manage the business and political issues around the pricing and marketing of prescription drugs Analyzing the appropriateness of an... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
tightly linked to changes in firm diversification and IT investments. These relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing / R&D) behave differently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
high-speed Internet service, in 1996. “We beat the telephone companies to market in six of seven regions,” says McMinn. He left to start another company, then returned to Covad in 2000 when the tech bubble burst. That was also when he... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
There's No Quick Shortcut to Success: Zorpads Takes Off
member – don’t worry, they won’t reveal who – took off her shoes, they knew they had found their problem to solve. "She knew [the smell] was bad, but then she started listing out all the reasons current products on the market don't... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/PEL073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-102 AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market The CEO of a health-care based REIT is considering alternative nursing home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and markets that is useful to both social scientists and managers."... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
basis for specifying the responsibilities of business managers. The second is framing the role of business in society by looking to the values realized by the basic building blocks of contemporary economic activity, i.e., markets and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
through an evaluation of the School's current marketing strategy, including the vehicles used to communicate with alumni. The committee agreed that while the School has a comprehensive and valuable array of services for its graduates, a... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author:Hanna W. Halaburda Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
concentrated, with five sellers responsible for nearly half of net selling. This concentration leads to market fragility—losses at the largest sellers have an outsized impact on CDS pricing. These findings suggest a high degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
throughout the year on four specific areas, and I'd like to summarize each committee's work. Communications Under the leadership of John Hoffmann (MBA '64), this group focused on segmentation, design and content, and delivery. The committee acknowledged that View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?— Alfred Wise,Share Our Strength The session, led by HBS professor James E. Austin, featured three managers whose experiences highlight the challenges and benefits of thinking about profitable View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- September 2021
- Case
Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World
By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
Bertini, Marco, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World." Harvard Business School Case 522-003, September 2021.