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- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up the supply View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
strategy is to achieve specialization by taking explicit advantage of the opportunities provided by the ecosystem while avoiding the kinds of traps that challenge firms in such environments. Our observation of a variety of niche strategies in action highlights a few... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All other choices,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit. This case presents the structure of these payment methods, focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-058.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsRed Lobster David E. Bell and Jason RiisHarvard Business School Case 511-052 Red Lobster, a 40-year-old chain of seafood restaurants, has just completed some market... View Details
- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Consumer Power; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Healthcare; Transition; Transformation; Trends; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Management; Marketing; Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Fashion Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; South America; North and Central America; Middle East; Europe; Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2021 (Revised February 2025)
- Teaching Note
Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma
By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
- November 2024 (Revised July 2025)
- Case
Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow From Here?
By: Willy C. Shih, Lena Duchene and Daniela Beyersdorfer
By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with €230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds,... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Distribution; Volatility; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Profit; Trade; Digital Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Advertising; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Business and Community Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Business Model; Health Pandemics; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Poland
Shih, Willy C., Lena Duchene, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow from Here?" Harvard Business School Case 625-061, November 2024. (Revised July 2025.)
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
(such as going to a museum), an online intervention that led to greater liking after offline meetings (Study 3). How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture. 50th Anniversary Special Issue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
virtual restaurant platform. The food-service market is valued at more than $200 billion but is nonetheless highly fragmented. While a handful of mega-brands like McDonald’s and Domino’s have thousands of branches, mid-size View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
tremendous value to our target audience.” The main focus of YAM is to shrink that management talent gap in Africa. It does this by providing networking opportunities; educating companies and young business people about the opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
competitors under a framework the authors term TIPS, for technology, inventory, people, and space (size, location, and ambiance). These are the four major assets that retailers must use effectively and efficiently to create a compelling and distinctive View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
and customer acquisition. If you are building a brand, my advice is to keep Amazon while you build out your Shopify ecosystem, and then make the move. It may not be relevant in your business but buying inventory can keep the supply chain... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
400-500 rupees a day to sort and process for recycling. The market is in turn willing to pay roughly 100 rupees for each recycled pellet generated, helping create the entire value chain from individual waste... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
possible in terms of service and its economics, without compromising on its value proposition? Was Paladina just too different of a business to be part of the DaVita family? This case offers an example of "intrapreneurship"—i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
services. Features that are not valued and therefore are not used. Decreasing price premiums for innovations that historically created value. An overserved customer will say, "Sure, I will take the next version of your product, I... View Details