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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
most platform launches fail, what mistakes should managers and entrepreneurs avoid? Yoffie: We see four common problems across the data. The number one problem is how to price the product. The vast majority of platforms require subsidies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. 10:00-11:15 a.m. EDT Navigating Uncertain... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Pricing, product customization, and service customization cannot be entrusted to either group alone. The impact on economics, the whole account base, and corporate strategy require an integrated approach. At the small account end, the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real intentionality around the policies... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, among others. He authored articles on venture capital and media investing, and was inducted into the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council Hall of Fame in 2001. Willard “Woody” Brittain Jr. MBA 1972 Woody... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
beyond the ivory tower.” The priority paradox So why aren’t more scholars at business schools striving to make their work practically relevant? One reason is that for many, working on relevant problems has little impact on faculty... View Details
- January 2016
- Case
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
of extremely valuable professional development workshops with classmates who pushed me to think deeply about how I will make a lasting impact through my career. Some of my closest friends and thought partners are people I encountered in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to constrain price growth of existing drugs, cap seniors’ out-of-pocket drug spending, and eventually enable drug price negotiations, Dafny says. While “it's a little too... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
right approach.” In the new working paper The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Teixeira and HBS Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe propose that online stores take a page... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
serves as a rationale for global brands to charge premiums. Global brands "are expensive, but the price is reasonable when you think of the quality," pointed out a Thai participant. Consumers also believe that transnational... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
expensive—one cake sells for the same price as a package of 12 original cakes. The biggest challenge was how to differentiate the new version. While interviewing consumers in Seoul about their snack preferences, the team gained insights... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
declines in almost any of the producing basins around the world. How will this shortage affect the U.S. and world economy? The price of oil and gas is going to have to go way up. Sixty dollars a barrel for crude oil is a preposterously... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
I wonder how that anecdote was instructive to you. Steven Rogers: It was hugely impactful on how I view the circumstances, and that is—like Malcolm X and I learned from him—that you must be prepared for teachable moments and those... View Details