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  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

reach other actors in the political economy, including shoppers, businesspeople, financiers, and traders. Thus Liz Cohen, in her Consumer’s Republic, looks at the ways consumers helped construct a new kind of political economy—through... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • Web

The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

could develop only to a point.” 11 When color began to be added to the products themselves, advances in color printing and reproduction followed. Starting in the 1920s American consumers went from a commercial world of white towels and... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Cost-Efficient Decarbonization of Portland Cement Production

By: Gunther Glenk, Anton Kelnhofer, Rebecca Meier and Stefan Reichelstein
Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production is becoming technologically ready for deployment, many are... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Carbon Abatement; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Emissions; Carbon Regulation; Carbon Tax; Net-zero Emissions; Management; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Environmental Accounting; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • October 2013 (Revised January 2016)
  • Case

J.C. Penney's 'Fair and Square' Strategy (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
As he gets ready to release 2nd quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes he initiated for the business model and brand image of his company. A new pricing scheme he put in place in February,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Price; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton (2007). Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web Authors:Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton Publication:Psychology and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Buy Big, Sell Small

distribution model by providing a digital platform where shop owners can order fast-moving consumer goods online or by phone from local wholesalers who combine their orders with others from nearby kiranas.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 31 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

suppliers in as many countries before it lands in the hands of the final assembler. "The sequential, multicountry production model is what dominates now, and it's a model where little bits of value get... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Imperfect Intermediation of Money-Like Assets

By: Jeremy C. Stein and Jonathan Wallen
We study supply-and-demand effects in the U.S. Treasury bill market by comparing the returns on T-bills to the administered policy rate on the Federal Reserve’s reverse repurchase (RRP) facility. In spite of the arguably more money-like properties of an investment in... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Demand and Consumers; Price
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  • 17 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Hanna Hałaburda; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

and high levels of press freedom. We further demonstrate that suppliers perform better when they serve buyers located in countries where consumers are wealthy and socially conscious. Taken together, these findings suggest the importance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

sales using Excel and interpret the output 8 hrs Module 5 Multiple Regression Identify relationships among three or more variables to improve understanding of data and provide better forecasts. Highlights Single Versus Multiple Regression Adjusted R-Squared Improving... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation

By: Vishrut Rana, Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine
Problem definition: Investments in renewable energy have surged worldwide in recent years, with over $2 trillion spent globally on clean energy. This surge was driven by growing policy support, concerns about energy security, and, most importantly, the cost... View Details
Keywords: Wind Power; Electricity Distribution; Renewable Energy; Profit; Investment Return; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Revenue; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry
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  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

significant set of changes to which the organization was still adjusting. Stroz and Friedberg wondered whether to push for continued, aggressive growth. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313023-PDF-ENG Congruence Model Note Shon R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2024
  • Case

ZEISS: Commercializing Science

By: Maria P. Roche, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Karl Lamprecht, President and CEO of the ZEISS AG Group, mused on how far ZEISS had come in 175 years of being a pioneer in optics, and how the course he had charted since taking the helm of the company could keep it on track. In his role, he oversaw the four core... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk, uncertainty, and performance for the long-term benefit of both... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • February 2024
  • Case

More than Optics: Olympus's Vision to Become a Leading Global MedTech Company

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert
In August 2022, CEO Yasuo Takeuchi reflected on Olympus Corporation’s recent transformation from being known as a Japanese consumer camera company to becoming a leading global medical technology (MedTech) company. Over the past dozen years, Takeuchi and prior... View Details
Keywords: Global Human Resource Management; Medical Technology; Corporate Strategy; Transformation; Globalization; Business Model; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Japan; United States
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  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

determine whether its leadership model was truly making a difference? Keywords: Human Capital ; Transformation ; Management Practices and Processes ; Managerial Roles ; Organizational Culture ; Leadership ; Competency and Skills ; Global... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2008/summer/13/ Leaders in Denial Authors:Richard S. Tedlow Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract Henry Ford's stubborn refusal to admit the changeability of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

shares the details with others in today’s super-connected consumer world. “We forget that the things that really stick, the things people talk about years later, are not the average experiences, but the outliers on the other end of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation