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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Buy Big, Sell Small

tolerance for risk and responsibility, Shruti returned to India and jumped into entrepreneurship “head first, feet next.” With a startup team, she began fine-tuning plans to launch a digital platform to help local travel agents maximize their View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses

By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Business Subsidiaries; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Price; Risk Management; Marketing; Product Positioning; Production; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • May 2014
  • Article

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

By: Nils Rudi and David Drake
In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias—the tendency to... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Logistics; Decision Making
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  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

initiatives goes to organizations that are structured to support specific groups of recipients, often with sophisticated solutions. Such organizations rarely reach the broader populations that could be served by simpler alternatives. There is, however, an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

along lines of race, class, and geography.”[2] Policy Summary The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022Contains about $40 billion in benefits for environmental justice.[3] Three main areas of effect (identified by Senate Democrats) [4]Reduce... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

through improving operations is the focus of Professor Robert Huckman’s research, MBA course curriculum, and Executive Education teaching. Huckman is the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative and chair of the MBA Required... View Details
  • August 2008
  • Article

Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael Porter’s ideas about competitive strategy. Shared value creation focuses on identifying and expanding the connections between societal and economic progress. Policies and operating practices that simultaneously create economic and... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

be divided into strategic and operational activities. Strategic activities include, among others, long-term capacity planning and network configuration of warehouses, distributors, and retail stores. Examples of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

cinema who worked to privatize Odra. There is potential in reinvigorating the former state-owned and operated Odra theater chain and also redeveloping portions of the associated real estate to retail, office, or residential. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

compounded by the effects of climate change.” This past February, NPR offered additional explanations for Mexico City’s water crisis: “The reservoirs that supply around 20% of water to the city's 22 million residents are drying up. They... View Details
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

distance in some ways, it has grown it in others. As the authors observe, “For example, while information technology may be an effective means of coordinating ongoing projects and collaborations, it may be less View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • Web

Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

responsibility issue, rather than a business problem, will risk the greatest consequences. Of course, a company’s climate policies will be affected by stakeholder expectations and standards for social responsibility. But the effects of... View Details
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company (HMC) began operating in July of 1974. HMC's investments in venture capital,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

job."1 It was remarkable that the corporate image of a company whose brands were so well known, and whose operations were so widespread, was so indistinct. There were times between the 1960s and 1990 when Unilever appeared amorphous.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products