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  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9390.html Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate Author:Rohit Deshpandé Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses the "provenance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
PPL Corp., an electric utility in Pennsylvania, needs to finance $1 billion of peaking plants as part of its new growth strategy. In February 2001, Steve May, director of finance for PPL's Global Division, is responsible for recommending a finance plan. After... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Project Finance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Leasing
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  • 07 Oct 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

customer experience faces cutbacks, what services get chopped? Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car? Car-buying sends shivers up the backbones of American consumers, so why hasn’t the industry stepped up to create a better... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

Successful businessmen told a roomful of students that ultimately, the world outside the classroom will be their best teacher in entrepreneurship. "If you are taking an entrepreneurship class, you want to be a venture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his forthcoming book The Power of Noticing: What the View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • March 2022
  • Case

Abu Issa Holding: Navigating the Qatar Blockade

By: Mark Egan and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows Ashraf Abu Issa, CEO and chairman of Abu Issa Holding (AIH), as he contemplated the fate of his company’s regional expansion. AIH was a Qatari diversified holding company, whose primary business was luxury retailing and distribution. Abu Issa had set... View Details
Keywords: Luxury Retail; Expansion; Equity; Business Divisions; Growth and Development; Market Entry and Exit; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
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  • 11 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

can firms do to prevent it? A: When you go buy a toy at the store, the only cost that stands out is the price you pay for the toy, not the coins you put in the parking meter near the store's window. If you View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

agency to resolve the problem. So you get the best of both worlds. The Fed does what it's best at, macro risk monitoring. And the agencies with the deepest expertise in the relevant financial area would be... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

new shares you suddenly own of a company that you never intended to buy in the first place? Logic suggests that you would be likely to sell those shares. But research by Associate Professor Malcolm Baker, Professor Joshua Coval, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 23 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

Gourville and Elie Ofek were surprised to find a dearth of academic research on the subject. "There's a lot of research about new-product branding, but as best as we could tell, nobody had looked closely at the issue of how to brand... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

fast? Are business schools right in buying into a method of scoring the game that threatens to reduce their diversity of intellectual and social capital? All for the sake of a best list ranking? Are these... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

organization is still important for the best results. A number of factors were cited in determining the mix of inputs, responsibilities, and decisions associated with an RAP designed to maintain organizational agility over its life cycle.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

511-059 Entrepreneurial produce packaging firm, which has developed a disruptive technology that keeps fresh produce and flowers fresh for significantly longer, faces strategic growth decisions. CEO Bob Wright must decide how best to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

sold in. "Who has the money?" Buyouts are often expensive and either other owners or the company must have the money to buy the shares of the sellers. Sometimes you can bring in external investment or debt to help View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 09 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

appropriate dress for a luxury shop. One noted that "wealthy people sometimes dress very badly to demonstrate superiority" and that "if you dare enter these boutiques underdressed, you are definitely going to buy something." However, it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

cycles in turn can arise when a subset of firms adopt the strategy of vertically permeable boundaries. Such firms are vertically integrated in the sense of participating in multiple stages of the value chains, but their internal upstream units also sell into and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 03 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

better to manage these programs in-house or to use outside experts. . Power Of The Network Affiliate networks slash the cost of buying ads for sellers through the use of advertising marketplaces. In essence, sellers are able to place... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

consumerswould buy anything on the Internet.— Hiroshi Mikitani of Rakuten Brands also tend to be highly localized. "You may find one brand very popular in Beijing and not be able to find it in Guangzhou at all," he said. Rob... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

future business leaders, will respond to these tragedies. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Responsibilities-to-Socie/an/115012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-019 Showrooming at Best Buy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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