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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
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Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his responsibilities to include subsidiary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
year. Despite the wealth of people like Wu Yajun and Yin Mingshan, the average Chinese lives on less than $2,000. Why would the latter want, in effect, to lend money to the former, who is twenty-two times richer? The answer is that, until recently, the View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
merits and risks. The team planned to fully examine each strategy to determine how to best get the brace into the hands of those who needed it most, the patients, and identify which one enabled Myomo to grow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
many advertisers that currently buy ads from Yahoo. The proposed deal would substantially reduce Yahoo's ability to offer competitive payments to Web site publishers seeking to show pay-per-click ads. Without Yahoo bidding against Google... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
"The best practice does not, and increasingly will not, necessarily reside in Boston or even in the United States." Beyond the classroom, international students are a vital presence in the daily activities of the student body. Wheelwright... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
businesses in truly transformative ways. The New York Times, formerly a bastion of traditional media, has created a thriving digital product behind a carefully designed paywall. Best Buy has transformed its... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Michael Wheeler illuminates the improvisational nature of negotiation, drawing on his own research and his work with Program on Negotiation colleagues. He explains how the best practices of diplomats such as George J. Mitchell, dealmaker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
career in banking in 2018. “I am grateful to learn from the from practitioners, researchers, and educators who are consolidating best practices from countries throughout the world,” he says. “I am also mindful of the practical... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population. Nearly 67 million people used these clubs in 2004. As the industry grew, many large chains began to emerge, opening new outlets and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy en route. The Grain Belt... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209135 URBI and the City Licensee Managers Harvard Business School Case 209-144 A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
each other. And it was an incredible story, I mean, to listen to these women and their resilience. And their idea was they wanted to band together, buy a grinding mill, and sort of take care of each other, live together, if they could,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
explanations of our findings. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572699 August 2013 Journal of Finance Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Reaching for yield-the propensity to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end up View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel