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Frank Spencer

present value on a financial analysis? Absolutely," he says. "But I think one way that HBS has shaped me as a leader is by showing that the right technical answer might not do you much good at all if you can't also manage the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Services
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

world. Peter Le: Understand how global supply chain works and what are the potential drivers and hurdles for efficient global supply chain systems. Prerna Arya: Through this internship, I hope to learn more... View Details
  • 27 May 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

Professor John Quelch provides some answers. Key concepts include: For decades, Ford has created specialized products for different countries while Toyota, Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella. Ford's strategy resulted in added... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in supply chains, reinventing value... View Details
  • 13 May 2014
  • News

Willing Hands

place," he explains. "The team just needed a coach to get them organized to run the right plays." He cites HBS for providing that know-how, and more: "Do we need to be able to build a decision tree and create a net present value on a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • Fast Answer

Sustainable investing and ESG resources

by ERM, this report synthesizes survey responses from investors and companies to assess the value and quality of ESG ratings from leading ratings firms.  ESG data (public company focus) MSCI ESG Research This platform includes access... View Details
  • December 1989 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

Destin Brass Products Co.

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A specialized manufacturer of brass valves, pumps, and flow controllers is troubled by competitive pricing in pumps and higher than expected margins for flow controllers. Managers suspect that cost accounting and cost allocations to products may be to blame. Two... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Five Forces Framework; Customer Value and Value Chain; Competition; Business Strategy; Design; Inflation and Deflation; Asset Pricing; Governance Controls; Manufacturing Industry
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Destin Brass Products Co." Harvard Business School Case 190-089, December 1989. (Revised April 1997.)
  • 09 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System "Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System" was the 2nd annual conference hosted by the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. The Club invited 22 industry experts from firms... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding Purpose in Profit

redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations
  • February 2006
  • Case

Millions of Customers and the Search for a Business: the Challenge of IRC-Hispano

Like many online services, IRC-Hispano, the world's largest Spanish-language chat organization, has many customers but sees few revenues. As an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Revenue; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; Spain
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Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Fernando de Barrajo, and Joshua Bellin. "Millions of Customers and the Search for a Business: the Challenge of IRC-Hispano." Harvard Business School Case 106-053, February 2006.
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders are American options and their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

little change in behavior until we guarantee that those who destroy value and betray the public trust don't profit from it handsomely..." These matters have become embarrassing for Americans living overseas. Tammy Doty reports that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 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 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995 to 2002, we find that the shadow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2004 (Revised July 2004)
  • Case

Clarence Saunders: The Comeback King

By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Follows the rise and fall of the founder of the modern supermarket, Clarence Saunders. Prior to 1915, all staple shopping took place in the market or general store, where a clerk behind a counter pulled items from shelves for customers , measured them from a barrel, or... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Mission and Purpose; Business Processes; Leadership; Consumer Behavior; Leadership Style; Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Order Taking and Fulfillment
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Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Clarence Saunders: The Comeback King." Harvard Business School Case 404-070, May 2004. (Revised July 2004.)
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 15 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

revenue for Amazon, in addition to the additional value the online retailing giant gets from the loyalty customers feel once they are enrolled. "THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PRIME MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR AMAZON, AND IT GIVES... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

export. With globalization, supply chains are lengthening and that means growth for railroads and other transportation modes.” According to the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, if U.S. railroads shipped 10... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
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