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September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
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Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal

Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details

Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Program for Research in Markets & Organizations PRIMO Alumni Profiles 1ms Jo Ellery Harvard College, Class of 2021; current HBS PhD Candidate Jo Ellery (they/them), originally from Traverse View Details

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

after the US began to shut down in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Serhant had time to reflect on his career as a real estate broker in New York City,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes

start up Blue Ridge Capital in New York City, where she found her calling: hedge funds. The summer after entering HBS, she worked for Lone Pine. While a student, Hughes has... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

the comforter in chief and that's what myself and my colleagues tried to do for our city. AW: This was something that made national news when it happened, and I know that in your city, this is not a one-day... View Details

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

years, Strauss and Tepperberg managed to keep Marquee one of NYC's hottest clubs for almost nine years. Meanwhile, they significantly expanded their portfolio of clubs in New York View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

dysfunction—the failed political competition the parties have created (captured in the “Gehl Porter Politics Industry Theory”). This new lens reveals the reforms that will be necessary to truly realign America’s political system with the... View Details

28 Apr 2020
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A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

having a roaster on site and only serving organic coffee are what differentiated Bean&Bean from the many other coffee shops in New York when her family launched the company 12 years ago. While Han knows... View Details

10 Aug 2016
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Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

scandal drifted under a larger cloud of national media coverage, applications took a much steeper dive. For instance, when an event received at least one mention in the New York Times—which is considered a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book,... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

17 Feb 2015
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HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

San Francisco has always been a beacon for people who want to change the world. From beat poets to hippies to gay activists, each wave of counterculture immigration has put its stamp on the city, creating a unique blend that has set it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

09 May 2023
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Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

authors write. Jobs based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York continue to offer a high-level of job postings with one or more days a week of remote work. Miami, among other cities in the southern US, is... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Aug 2020
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6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

at handling COVID-19 consistently highlight their attention to the data, their reliance on evidence to inform their decision-making, and their openness to revisiting decisions when needed, business leaders should certainly be doing the same. View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Aldo Sesia

The (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks’s innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the company’s philosophy of making long-term investments in promising new technologies and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

enterprise became Lehman Brothers. Henry Lehman died five years later of yellow fever in New Orleans, and Emanuel and Mayer ran the company over the next four decades. New York... View Details

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

government's role in U.S. healthcare? What do you think? To Read More: Robert H. Frank, "A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn't Simplify It," The New York Times, February 18, 2007, p.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

30 Sep 2015
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Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Hernandez of New York University, dive into the topic in their working paper Political Identity and Trust. “Our biggest headline finding is that it seems that it’s beliefs that drive trust, not taste"... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

bias in Goldman Sachs’s underwriting model. (Goldman developed and issued the card.) Adding fuel to the fire, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared that the same thing had happened to him and his wife. Officials from the New View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

08 Jul 2019
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Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

in the sample, the mechanisms through which the paywalls increased total revenue varied. “For example,” the study authors write, “the success of the New York Times came from a large increase in print and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Journalism & News

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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