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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
role in convening leaders across sectors—business, government, social enterprise, and nonprofit—to deepen understanding and to develop actionable ideas for addressing the most pressing challenges we face today. As one example, the US View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential. After a decade of experimentation in education and global development, I enrolled at HBS to develop the skills and strategy to bring Global Citizen Year to life. Winning the 2008 Social Enterprise... View Details
- January 2024
- Case
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Business Earnings; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Communication Intention and Meaning; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Social Marketing; Marketing Channels; E-commerce; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Fashion Industry; Spain; Germany; Italy; Europe; United States
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz, and María José Satrústegui. "ECOALF: Fashion for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 524-057, January 2024.
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
that attract consumers to retailers’ websites. Companies typically have to balance the popularity of these policies in a competitive market with the high costs of managing returns, including shipping and restocking fees that cut into... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52570 Demand Estimation in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
marketing, operations, and pricing. This led to greater profitability as well as to a tighter competitive focus and greater differentiation. Thus, order cycle management contributed to cost optimization, revenue improvement, and better... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
new “blue ocean” opportunity for companies eager to activate diversity as a competitive advantage. Chitra: And when you talk about the opportunities and just going even another level deeper based on this tremendous research that you both... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
savings of 40% versus national brands through the elimination of the BrandTax, the hidden costs the company claimed consumers paid for a national brand. As the venture-funded startup entered the fiercely competitive CPG industry, it was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate and maintain customer loyalty, and the strategies it employed to penetrate the highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
issue is how to expand the concept without adversely affecting the original users of the product. Also, what new kinds of competition are they creating? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
However, the documented differences, when they are significant, between the level of optimism for the affiliated and unaffiliated is hardly impressive, which is perhaps not surprising. If one thinks of the competition to get investment... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
New Venture Competition were Bootcamp participants. Relationship-building became a focus of the re-imagined virtual experience, both within the participants and the curriculum. Virtual socializing events were scheduled throughout the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
analytical problem to be solved. But, says Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the benefits of this rigorous approach have attendant costs: Strategy has become a competitive game plan,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
procurement can be streamlined to avoid inadequate specification of the project’s scope and/or a bad selection process. For example, Senegal’s Infrastructure Council vets projects, the World Bank and other development finance institutions help to fund a proper set of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
School US Competitiveness Project has pointed out, has an adverse effect on wages and competitiveness. Of course, there is always a catalyst for a sudden downturn on markets. Today, a sudden and disorderly reversal of globalization could... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner