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Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India

By: Sarthak Gaurav, Shawn A. Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with financial products, low levels of education, and low financial literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports... View Details
Keywords: Literacy; Insurance; Marketing; Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Financial Instruments; Emerging Markets; Education; Personal Finance; Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Innovation and Invention; Gujarat
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  • 29 Apr 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Magie Cheng & David Huang

  • Profile

Arjun Goyal

at the Harvard Innovation Lab (Harvard i-lab). When asked if the environment of mutual encouragement and advice is helpful, Arjun does not hesitate. “One hundred percent,” he says. “For guidance, help with... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care
  • February 2015
  • Case

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Balance Achieving a life that balances the pleasures and demands of work and life has never been easy. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • June 2022
  • Teaching Plan

GreenLight Fund

By: Brian Trelstad and Mel Martin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 320-053. As Tara Noland, the Executive Director (ED) of GreenLight Cincinnati, reflected on her first few years on the job. Noland had delivered on what she had been hired to do in the city: work with leading philanthropists and nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Venture Philanthropy; Replication; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Social Issues; Decision Making; Cincinnati
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  • September 1994
  • Case

American Airlines: Object Oriented Flight Dispatching Systems

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Espen Andersen
American Airlines Describes has organized and developed their Systems Operation Control (SOC) center in Dallas, from which the day-to-day running of the airline takes place. This case details the decision support system used by the flight dispatchers, and the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Development; Programs; Complexity; Technology Adoption; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Doing It Your Way

now there's a tremendous interest in intrapreneurship, because companies have made their cutbacks and realize that they can't 'shrink' to greatness," says Kanter. "If businesses don't innovate they will fall... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

      Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

      * Top 10 Technology Books of 2020 (Forbes)
      * 10 Best Business Books of 2020 (Inc. Magazine)
      * Top Shelf Pick of Best Business Books 2020: Technology & Innovation (Strategy + Business)
      * 9 Best Business Books for 2020... View Details

      • April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
      • Case

      National Instruments

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred
      This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Media; Management Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Texas
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      • 20 Dec 2016
      • First Look

      December 20, 2016

      such as EVA. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-109 Management Control Systems Module 9: Building a Balanced Scorecard This module... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • March 2016 (Revised August 2018)
      • Case

      JPMorgan Chase after the Financial Crisis: What Is the Optimal Scope of the Largest Bank in the U.S.?

      By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
      When Jamie Dimon took over as CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) in 2005, he reaffirmed the commitment to pursue a "universal bank" strategy—providing a full range of products and services to both retail and wholesale clients. Yet the merits of the universal... View Details
      Keywords: Scope; Regulatory Reforms; Universal Banking; Synergy; Optimization; Simplification; Finance; Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      • 08 Apr 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

      Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting View Details
      Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
      • 04 Jun 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

      emerged from bankruptcy. “I did the quick calculation that you could buy and control all the US (gun) capacity for about $2 billion,” he said. His colleague sitting nearby, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, chimed in.... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation
      • 15 Feb 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 15

      published field studies of men doing dangerous work, to induce a model of how organizational cultures equip men to "do" and "undo" gender at work. Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
      • Case

      Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

      By: Francois Brochet
      This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • 14 May 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

        employees to take better control of both their workdays and their lives. Excerpt From sleeping With Your Smartphone It all began with an experiment that my research associate View Details
        Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow