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  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

In the ancient world, the acquisition of celebrity was all about acquiring dignity. Today the acquisition of celebrity or wealth is at the expense of our dignity, Boteach said. Boteach agreed that both men View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Introduction to the Future of Market Capitalism

trend of rising wealth will continue, a view that is shared by many global business leaders. But recent research conducted by HBS indicates that business leaders harbor many concerns about market capitalism View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower
  • 17 Oct 2016
  • HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

poverty in developing nations has to be dealt with much differently than in economies of plenty, that what works in a developed nation may be irrelevant to a nation of mass poverty. In a developed economy, the bias is toward greater... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

regarding herbal patents. (They explain their findings in the paper Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms.) A win/win situation is one in which the patentee successfully makes... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

company. The company specialized in providing its clients with software used for transaction processing and risk management in various commodity markets. Triple Point Technology had grown substantially in its 13 years of existence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

economic equality fosters economic growth, primarily by encouraging consumption among people who spend a lot and invest modestly. For example, the study concludes that the US pays handsomely for the low growth that comes with income View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about the Bitcoin system itself. This article presents the platform's design principles and properties for a non-technical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-015.pdf Naiveté and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with helping to grow the Malaysian economy. Should Khazanah encourage job and route cuts at MAS, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies on minority investments in companies by development banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

increasing disposal cost decreases the amount of waste generated and, of the waste generated, more is converted into by-product. By-product synergy also shifts wealth from the primary market to the by-product market as disposal cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2007
  • Op-Ed

Learning from Private-Equity Boards

Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

misvaluation for a firm's borrowing and investment decisions. Using an ex-post measure of the accuracy of credit ratings to capture debt market misvaluation, we find evidence that firms take advantage of inaccuracies by issuing more debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

analysis, which I apply to a wealth of data, I show how changes in product, organizational, and community identities associated with a legacy technology can be reconstituted to reconfigure a field. My... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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