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  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

allergens. Now, the new company had to turn its product into a brand and map its go-to-market strategy, including creating a compelling value proposition, choosing a path to market that was either direct-to-consumer, through grocery... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709004 Hrad Technika Harvard Business School Case 609-039 Examines a struggling IT outsourcing project from the perspective of the IT services provider—Hrad... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand
Nongovernmental organizations are one group of players who are active in the efforts of international development and increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Service Delivery; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Framework
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  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

team familiarity and variation in experience, we see a complementary effect on measures of delivery performance (i.e., a project being delivered on time and on budget). In team familiarity, our paper identifies one mechanism for capturing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

  Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004, where View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

218-001 Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelez International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

technological innovations such as robot workers and in-house incubators. Walmart fights a revenue drop The case details how the rise of ecommerce (and the success of Amazon in particular) affected Walmart’s discount stores (which sell general merchandise but limited... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

strategies for continuing to grow Instacart from a grocery delivery platform to a holistic grocery technology company, including in-store grocery... View Details
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

Schlesinger and James Barnett May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In January 2025, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo considers strategies for continuing to grow Instacart from a grocery delivery platform to a holistic... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

there was not enough customer demand for its grocery delivery service. Next, there's the matter of timing, a huge issue that can determine whether a company gets funding and whether it achieves the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Communication (42) Investment Activism (12) Investment Banking (6) Investment Funds (12) Investment Portfolio (8) Investment Return (12) Investment (78) Job Cuts and Outsourcing (12) Job Design and Levels (7) Job Interviews (3) Job Offer... View Details
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

the ability to achieve a goal, which in turn translates into higher rates of learning. We test the resulting model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a large business-process View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

healthier campers if we eased up on the cooking, scrubbing, and grocery shopping and instead threw a little money at these problems. “We feel like we don’t have enough time to do everything we want to do, and that makes us feel like we’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

marketing channels, they have entered into a rash of partnerships and outsourcing relationships, further eroding their own distinctiveness. While it is true that some companies have avoided these mistakes, they are exceptions to the rule.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

thereafter, the world started to change quickly and dramatically. The impending health crisis and mass stockpiling consumed the collective psyche. And a tweet from the UK went viral: a nurse who had worked all day taking care of COVID-19 patients was unable to buy... View Details
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

their entrepreneurial idea so they can focus on mission-critical tasks. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/MM3hdSNww6O36W0ScOuG][/div] Similarly, you can free up time for important or enjoyable activities by buying your way out of chores and other unpleasant... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

ten years as General Partner at General Atlantic Partners. While at General Atlantic Mr. Cline co-founded Exult and Xchanging, today's leading business process outsourcing companies. Prior to General Atlantic, he was an associate at... View Details
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

through a cost effective, outsourced delivery model. RelayRides Shelby Clark Nabeel Al-Kady Dave Brook David Schairer Rob Guinn Boris Mordkovich Business Track Runner-Up RelayRides is the world’s first... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

larger than the companies themselves: the success of their respective business ecosystems. These loose networks—of suppliers, distributors, outsourcing firms, makers of related products or services, technology providers, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien