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- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
presidential election. These results highlight the trade-offs associated with mobilizing voters in recently established democracies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50950 Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
and evacuation services if warranted as well as lost document assistance. This service is a supplement to, not a substitute for, health insurance. Therefore, a student may incur personal charges in the event... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
faculty chair), Allen Grossman, and F. Warren McFarlan each led a lively exchange that encompassed topics such as measuring SEI’s success in 2014, ensuring that the knowledge generated is applied, and mobilizing the HBS alumni network.... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Brightstar and Encore, which act as trade-in white labels for large retail chains and mobile carriers. Sure, these competitors lack Gazelle's brand in the eyes of consumers and Gazelle's website has a great NPS score, but I worry that... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
both a car wax and dessert topping. At the moment, the cell phone is the closest thing we have to a fully converged device, said panelists, who represented device makers, telecom service providers, and operating system developers. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
with pediatric hospitals in Temple, San Antonio, and Mexico City, and how to structure these partnerships was under active discussion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714507-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-122 Note on View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates of about 20 percent, and mobile phone... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
hired a tech service firm to design an app, and two weeks later, he launched Flashfood. “He had no expertise around food. He didn't know how to build a mobile app. He had no resources or capital,” Satchu... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
less than $25,000 a year, this program represents a transformational opportunity to earn a college degree and secure a job with a family-sustaining wage. What is sometimes underestimated is that not only are community colleges obvious engines of economic View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power,... View Details
- 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
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Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education
In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
“It’s been a great boost, and top-line results followed.” What’s ahead: Last spring the company raised $15 million in Series B funding, which will help GAIA expand into other densely populated urban areas in Mexico, as well as on the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
international provision of tertiary and quaternary care), new opportunities in a broader range of services and treatment channels (e.g., telemedicine, mobile health, enterprise learning, and training for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
experiences, I was exposed to the ways that technology can help people in big and small ways and how companies can powerfully mobilize people and resources. But I also became convinced that technology is no panacea -- particularly when it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
enterprises delivering high-impact goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income populations, which he cofounded in 2007. At HBS, his work examines businesses serving low-income markets around the world, which means he is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
House version of the CHOICE Act were passed into law, an individual investor in Exxon Mobil would need to own at least $3.49 billion of stock in order to be permitted to submit a proposal for shareholder consideration, based on the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel