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Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India

By: Sarthak Gaurav, Shawn A. Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with financial products, low levels of education, and low financial literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports... View Details
Keywords: Literacy; Insurance; Marketing; Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Financial Instruments; Emerging Markets; Education; Personal Finance; Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Innovation and Invention; Gujarat
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    Jeffrey T. Polzer

    Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

    • 25 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

    resources available to them in order to best navigate academic and personal circumstances for which they may need support. SAS is available to partner with students to provide support and resources on the many facets of the HBS experience... View Details
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    Leadership Development

    Professor George has completed his research study on leadership development, based on in-person, in-depth interviews with 125 business and non-profit leaders, over half of whom are chief executive officers. They range in age from 23 to 93, with thirty per cent... View Details

    • 19 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 19, 2016

    forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Does “liking” a brand on Facebook cause a View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

    potential. With diverse experience in hand and a deep passion for the company’s mission, Leahy is showcasing exactly why she is the right person for the job. The Beauty of Combining Art and Science In many ways, Leahy’s path to the... View Details
    • December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
    • Case

    NatureSweet

    By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
    This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated... View Details
    Keywords: NatureSweet; Tomatoes; Agriculture; Greenhouse; Ambelang; Cherry Tomatoes; Incentives; Worker Empowerment; Empowerment; Toyota Production System; Leadership; Branding; Produce; Manufacturing; Organizational Change; Agribusiness; Business Model; Employee Relationship Management; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Success; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Mexico; North America
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    • November 8, 2013
    • Article

    What Men Can Do to Help Women Advance Their Careers

    By: Debora Spar
    Today, most major corporations—along with hospitals, law firms, universities, and banks—have entire units devoted to helping women and minorities succeed. There are diversity officers and work/family offices and gender-sensitivity training courses in all tiers of... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Gender
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    • August 2020
    • Case

    Gerald Chertavian

    By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
    Gerald Chertavian (HBS 1992) finds himself at a personal crossroads. It is 1999--the height of the dot com-bubble--and Chertavian and his business partners have just sold their Internet-based business for $83 million. His share of the sale’s proceeds means that he has... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 10 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Look at Globalization Now

    emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management

    By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
    This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
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    • 12 Nov 2018
    • Blog Post

    Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

    armed forces. Many served in combat. They are proud to share this deeply personal aspect of their lives with you. CAMERON R. ARMSTRONG / 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment / US Army ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Woodstock, GA REASON FOR... View Details
    • 03 Apr 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

    Keywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine
    • September 4, 2018
    • Article

    Management as a Calling

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for students to see business as a true calling rather... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Personal Development and Career; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose
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    • November 2010
    • Article

    Which of These People Is Your Future CEO?

    By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew Hill and Toby Johnson
    Americans have long believed that U.S. military officers-trained for high-stakes positions, resilience, and mental agility-make excellent CEOs. That belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Training; Leadership Style; Managerial Roles; Situation or Environment; United States
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    • 31 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details
    • 26 Jul 2022
    • Blog Post

    Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details
    • March–April 2019
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    The Future of Leadership Development

    By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu
    The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that... View Details
    Keywords: Talent Management; Executive Education; Leadership Development; Business Education; Management Skills; Learning; Online Technology
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    • 2019
    • Chapter

    Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
    BOOK ABSTRACT: Personalized and precision medicine (PPM)—the targeting of therapies according to an individual’s genetic, environmental, or lifestyle characteristics—is becoming an increasingly important approach in health care treatment and prevention. The advancement... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Precision Medicine
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    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details