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  • September 2016 (Revised March 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

By: Feng Zhu
Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride, as opposed to the 20%–30%... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston
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  • March 2013 (Revised March 2015)
  • Case

iMatari

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
In late 2012, recent Harvard Business School graduate Hannah Lopez is given the opportunity to lead entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that created startup companies in Europe and emerging markets based upon existing successful business models. She had only... View Details
Keywords: Ethical Behavior; Ethical Judgment; Entrepreneurship; Imitation; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Europe; Middle East
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  • 26 Mar 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    ShotSpotter

    SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
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    Events - Business History

    and business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Dec 15 15 Dec 2023 Conference Using Oral History in Research This conference considered the ways oral history including the interviews undertaken by the Creating Emerging View Details
    • September 2012 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Videogames: Clouds on the Horizon?

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Kerry Herman
    Since the creation of the first videogame systems in the 1970s, the videogame industry has undergone numerous transformations as new technologies and market entrants fundamentally changed the gaming experience of customers. In the early 21st century, customers began... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Strategy; Industry Growth; Video Game Industry
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    • 09 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

    consequences of what they are doing." Such snap decisions can result in geo-mistakes that sap energy out of an organization and cause it to lose focus on what it was doing well in the first place. Geographic expansion should provide access to a fresh View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • March 2015
    • Teaching Note

    CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

    By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman
    Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

    This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details
    Keywords: Medication Adherence; Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Strategy; Communication Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social Issues; Information Technology; Value Creation; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    J. Hughes Norton III

    Norton is seated in Congressional's main dining room, his cell phone close at hand. As senior vice president in charge of golf operations at Cleveland-based International Management Group (IMG), the world's oldest and largest sports View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Preparing Global Leaders

    Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details
    • Article

    Competition for Scarce Resources

    By: Peter Eso, Volker Nocke and Lucy White
    We model a downstream industry where firms compete to buy capacity in an upstream market that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Natural Environment; Technology; Production; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Demand and Consumers; Industry Structures; Performance Capacity
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    • June 2018
    • Article

    Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity

    By: Wenxin Du, Alexander Tepper and Adrien Verdelhan
    We find that deviations from the covered interest rate parity (CIP) condition imply large, persistent, and systematic arbitrage opportunities in one of the largest asset markets in the world. Contrary to the common view, these deviations for major currencies are not... View Details
    Keywords: Interest Rates; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Price
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    • 26 May 2022
    • HBS Case

    Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

    resolve Although Cook stood by his convictions in the US, other countries posed different challenges. China, for instance, is an important market for Apple. Officials there wanted assurances from the company that it wasn’t sharing its... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 17 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

    employee pay (such as worker performance and labor market characteristics), as well as the “unexplained pay ratio”—the portion of pay disparity not driven by economic factors. Rouen then studied how these measures of pay disparity... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

    livelihoods but also to do so in a manner that is profitable and therefore scalable. “We believe in these ideas, and we’re trying to validate them beyond what’s done by traditional academic papers.” Roth: The second product that we’re working on is a loan for View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
    • 04 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

    and corporate temperament.— John Deighton In November 2000, shortly after Triarc sold Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes, I posed those questions to Triarc's top executives: chairman and majority owner Nelson Peltz, CEO Mike Weinstein, and View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
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    Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    markets to create both economic and social value. Publications How Firms Respond to Worker Activism: Evidence from Global Supply Chains By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel 2025 | Faculty Research Social movement pressures... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    along" seem crude and outdated workplace mantras when contrasted with the sophistication of modern business, yet they are still considered sound advice. Compensating Candor HBS professor Max Bazerman of the Negotiation, Organizations & View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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    Good cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management

    Joint work with Alexander Gümbel, Saïd Business School and Lincoln College Oxford

    In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm... View Details

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    Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production (with Maggie Chen)

    By: Laura Alfaro

    Quantifying the gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is firm selection... View Details

    Keywords: Gains From Multinational Production; Firm Selection; Knowledge Spillover