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19 Dec 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer What’s behind the decisions we make, especially when it comes to eating well and losing weight? Can companies motivate employees to make healthier decisions? Unethical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 1983 (Revised January 1989)
Case

American Home Products Corp.

American Home Products is a company with virtually no debt. Students are asked to analyze the company's debt policy and make a recommendation to the CEO. It is likely that adding debt to the capital structure would create some value for shareholders; the CEO is firmly... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Business Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Consumer Products Industry

May 4, 2023
Article

Falling Insulin Prices—What Just Happened?

By: Leemore S. Dafny

Recently, more than 100 years after insulin was developed, manufacturers announced price reductions for insulin products. Pressure to reduce prices had long been building, so why would they act now? View Details

Keywords: Price; Health Care and Treatment; Public Opinion; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Consumer-Driven Health Care: Conquering Health Care Cost and Quality Demons

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Quality; Demand and Consumers; Health Industry

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

16 Jul 2020
News

Accounting for Real Change

prioritize environmental or social benefits in addition to profit, he writes. “Yet investors, as well as consumers and employees, lack transparency on the impacts companies make through their products, employment, and operations.” The... View Details

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

close, the company has successfully navigated several rounds of VC financing and is weighing harvest strategies and next steps. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806073 Codon Devices... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Jennifer Hurford

London, Frankfurt and Cairo, where she helped consumer brands and healthcare companies arrange short term financing for their suppliers, and at IDEO, a design consulting firm in which she designed new... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

December 1989 (Revised September 1995)
Supplement

Westinghouse Electric Corp.: Automating the Capital Budgeting Process (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Julie H. Hertenstein

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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14 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring new opportunities at HBS

and the technology and retail sectors), but I’m also looking to explore general management/corporate strategy opportunities, the consumer finance sector, and management consulting, so it’s pretty safe to say... View Details

Keywords: Technology

Profile

Brandon Gayle

multiple industries and acquire a tangible set of skills." Developing a deeper playbook Three years at Bain exposed Brandon to "several analytical projects in aerospace and defense: building models, gathering data, and market research, as well as more... View Details

12 Mar 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Allocating Marketing Resources

Keywords: by Sunil Gupta & Thomas J. Steenburgh

February 2003 (Revised April 2003)
Case

Brioni

By: David E. Bell

Should Brioni, an internationally known, exclusive men's suit manufacturer and retailer extend its line to include women's apparel? The opportunity is to enter a much larger and profitable market. The dangers are: 1) compromising the existing image, and 2) failing to... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Segmentation; Expansion; Profit; Risk Management; Demand and Consumers; Fashion Industry

05 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

discussions featuring industry experts in the following areas: Energy Transition; Ag-Tech Innovations; Consumer Driven Sustainability; Living with Climate Change; Early Stage Climate Investing; Scaling Carbon Markets; Climate Mitigation... View Details

May 2007
Case

Demand and Supply Forecasting at Air Products - Electronics Specialty Materials

Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global chemical company. The protagonist, John Goldberg, grapples with how to better integrate the two forecasting... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Finance; Chemical Industry