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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
fraction of their wealth increases annuitization relative to a situation where annuitization is an "all or nothing" decision. Very few respondents choose declining real payout streams over flat or increasing real payout streams... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
create social distance, or a lack of emotional connection, that leads to misunderstandings and mistrust. To help global team leaders manage effectively, the author shares her SPLIT framework for mitigating social distance. It has five... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
technologies could leverage their abilities. It is generally agreed that Wal-Mart would have been impossible to manage so efficiently without state of the art, computerized data processing. So Walton authorized investments in it. Wal-Mart... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
world’s largest and most trusted investing institutions, Vanguard serves over 30 million clients, manages more than eight trillion dollars, and is an influential industry disruptor. Now, Charles Ellis reveals the story behind Vanguard’s... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
two, he had become “a difficult child,” and by three she was calling him a “troublemaker.” He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since. Golf: A Course in Business: A Few Lessons Golf Can Teach Us About View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies Authors:Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein, and Katharine L. Lee Abstract Manufacturers are increasingly being required to adhere to product take-back regulations that require them to View Details
- September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Community Solutions
By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn
Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas
Trelstad, Brian, and Tom Quinn. "Community Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 322-021, September 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Supplement
Keroche (F): Future Growth Plans
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case describes Keroche co-founder Tabitha Karanja’s 2012 decision to invest in additional production capacity. In November 2012, with a loan from Barclay’s bank, Keroche began constructing a new state-of-the-art beer brewery using German technology. The new plant,... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Aloholic Beverages; Beer; Production Capacity; Growth; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (F): Future Growth Plans." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-395, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Supplement
Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case describes Keroche’s growth after entering the beer business in 2008. Although the company was operating at full capacity and not able to fulfill all of its orders, Tabitha Karanja had set a goal of growing Keroche’s share of the Kenyan beer market from... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Beverages; Beer; Beer Market; Premium Beer; Manufacturing; Production; Production Capacity; Capacity; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financing and Loans; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-394, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
that needed professional management assistance. Five years later, I was promoted to company president and became a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. My lifelong friends in YPO helped me to buy and ultimately sell my company;... View Details
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managing not only the Family’s assets but also the wealth governance that accompanies it. In Module three, we examine different best practices of (a) when and how to set up a Family Office, (b) how to bring... View Details
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
training to scale his impact on care delivery at the health systems level. Dion Boyd (MBA 2026)Prior to HBS, Dion created Up Your Equity, a company that aims to combat the racial wealth gap with financial education. There he taught... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
the ultimate wealth that feeds the local economy derives heavily from the traded economy. Therefore, the US economy's inability to generate net new jobs in the traded sector for the last decade is deeply disturbing. Also, the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne