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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
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Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
permanent collections. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Institute of Art, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Modern Art have showcased these artists in the last half dozen years. Most recently, 70 pieces from the Joyner/Giuffrida... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
these initiatives is to promote applications that push the limits of processing power. Upgrading to Intel's latest chip becomes a necessity, not a luxury. There is a hundred-year-old analogue to Intel's strategy. At the turn of the century, the car was a technological... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
growth, but we still have a very poor understanding of the value implications of these kinds of actions. So there's lots of room for improvement. Q: Are there certain companies excelling in this area, or any industries where ESG... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
next attempt. In appropriate conditions—only in appropriate conditions—you can gain more value from experience than from up-front analysis. In certain kinds of work, even if you can figure out where you're going and find a map to get you... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- August 2002 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking
By: Frances X. Frei, Youngme E. Moon and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
In 2002, Great Dakota Bank's retail division is considering how heavily it should be promoting the company's online banking service. A recent promotional campaign appears to have significantly increased enrollments in online banking, but it is unclear whether the bank... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Technological Innovation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Management; Service Operations; Banking Industry
Frei, Frances X., Youngme E. Moon, and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking." Harvard Business School Case 603-011, August 2002. (Revised June 2006.)
- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan
By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Customer Value and Value Chain; Income; Macroeconomics; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Food; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Logistics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategic Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; Latin America; Aruba; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Mexico; Panama; Costa Rica; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; French Guiana; Peru; Uruguay; Venezuela; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago
Reinhardt, Forest, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Mariana Cal. "Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan." Harvard Business School Case 721-023, December 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Development, edited by Thomas G. Cummings. Sage Publications, Inc., 2007 Abstract When it comes to transforming big corporations, there are two fundamentally different strategies, says Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer. He calls these Theory E and Theory O... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic crash risk exposure of the collateral. We then apply Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition Two (MM) to split the cost of bearing this risk between the borrower and lender,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
creating one that did. The plan he assembled had three parts. The first was addressing the performance of CIP division managers by rating their execution performance. Here, Stuckey held fast to the familiar: an academic grading chart. If... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
resource to solve a problem. Highly accessible in a scant 100 pages, the ideas in Building a Growth Factory may not result in an assembly line of hit products, but they will make innovation "repeatable and reliable," allowing companies to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply chain of small farms and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
inability to get one of the espresso-based drinks to which he had grown attached during his years working in finance in New York. Dozie hopes to solve both the supply and the demand problems with Café Neo, a coffeehouse chain he and his... View Details
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Footprinting BMW's Approach to Emissions Reduction Greenhouse Gas Protocol Show Hide Details Concepts New Belgium Brewing: Creating a Mitigation Strategy The BMW Group: Reducing Emissions Across the Value View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
used to create the food that ends up in our stomachs (land, water, energy, etc.) is wasted.” Sani’s enthusiasm for Mori grew after speaking with Belsito when he learned more about the company’s focus on integrating within supply chains to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
structures in the European Union and Japan. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707471 McDonald's Corp.: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain Harvard Business School Case 907-414 McDonald's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace