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  • 22 Oct 2018
  • News

New Health Options for Small-Business Employees

  • 26 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Faith in Democracy at Moments of National Conflict

    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • December 2015 (Revised April 2019)
    • Case

    Chicken Republic

    By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
    Deji Akinyanju, founder of Nigerian fast-food chain Chicken Republic, and Ayo Oduntan, founder of an integrated Nigerian poultry operation (Amo Byng Group), are among a growing cadre of skilled food-industry entrepreneurs for whom the opportunities to serve the... View Details
    Keywords: Poultry; Chicken; Value Chain; Emerging Market; Chicken Republic; Amo Byng; Doreo Partners; Babban Gona; Reform; MINT; QSR; Quick Serve Restaurant; Fast Food; Corruption; Growth; Leadership; Food; Customer Value and Value Chain; Supply Chain; Infrastructure; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Governance; Growth and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis

    By: Joseph E. Aldy, Forest Reinhardt and Robert N. Stavins
    There is growing recognition of the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of methane as a contributor to global climate change. An important source of such emissions in some countries, including the United States, is the oil and gas (O&G) sector. This points... View Details
    Keywords: Emission Reduction; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Pollutants; Energy Industry
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    • Program

    Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

    longer-term opportunities while meeting shorter-term objectives Work effectively with peers and upper management to facilitate necessary change and realize the potential of pioneering ideas Embrace your role as change agent Bring out the... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

    Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Wilbur Chung; Technology
    • January 2025
    • Case

    Negotiating a Legacy at Sustainable Harvest (A)

    By: Jillian Jordan, Julian Zlatev, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter
    The specialty coffee importer Sustainable Harvest was the first certified B Corp in the coffee industry due to its investments in building coffee farmers’ capacity and livelihood. But in 2022, after coffee prices plummeted and the company’s bank declined to extend its... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trust; Ethics; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Volatility; Futures and Commodity Futures; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Business Model; Credit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Getting on the Map: The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance

    By: Michael Luca, Abhishek Nagaraj and Gauri Subramani
    We evaluate the extent to which small businesses maintain an online presence, looking at restaurant listings on a major online review platform. While the majority of restaurants have an online presence, we find that roughly 18 percent in our sample have no presence as... View Details
    Keywords: Small Business; Internet and the Web; Revenue; Digital Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Dynamic Pricing, Intertemporal Spillovers, and Efficiency

    By: Alexander J. MacKay, Dennis Svartbäck and Anders G. Ekholm
    Pricing technology that allows firms to rapidly adjust prices has two potential benefits. Time-varying prices can respond to high-frequency demand shocks to generate greater revenues, and they can also be used to smooth out demand to reduce costs. Using data... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Volatility
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    • September 2015
    • Case

    Hexion/Apollo's Courtship of Huntsman Corporation (A)

    By: Lena G. Goldberg and Danielle V. Holland
    In July 2007, after several failed attempts to acquire Huntsman Corporation, Hexion/Apollo prevailed in a bidding war for the company and signed a definitive merger agreement. Apollo had down bid Huntsman during previous attempts to acquire the company, and Huntsman... View Details
    Keywords: Fiduciary Outs; Topping Rights; Revlon Duties; Solvency Opinions; Reverse Termination Fees; Litigation Strategy; Law
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    • January 2024 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Target Malaria: Editing Mosquitoes through Gene Drives

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    Target Malaria, a non-profit research consortium, is exploring the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to combat malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its approach uses gene drives, a revolutionary tool, to suppress the population of malaria-carrying... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy; Genetics; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; United Kingdom; Burkina Faso; Africa
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    • 2022
    • Case

    Polarizing Government Work: McKinsey & Co. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    When Donald Trump announced his run for president in 2015, he placed immigration front and center in his campaign. He promised to drastically expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and build a border... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Immigration; Public Opinion; Ethics
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    • September 2021
    • Case

    Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

    By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
    Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details
    Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
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    • December 2014
    • Article

    Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

    By: Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung
    Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of... View Details
    Keywords: Location Strategies; Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Strategy; Value Creation; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Microeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
    • Case

    eShip-4U

    By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter
    eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Israel; United States
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    • 09 Apr 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Stephen, University of Pittsburgh

    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    came to understand the potential damage of "just this once" in my own life when I was in England, playing on my university's varsity basketball team. It was a fantastic experience; I became close friends with everyone on the... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors

    By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
    Organizations in the field of sports are becoming increasingly dependent on sponsors for their value creation and growth. Studies suggest that sports organizations (rights-holders) often fail to exploit the full potential of such sponsorship partnerships. The aim of... View Details
    Keywords: Sponsorship; ＂Sports Organizations,; Case Study; Europe; Business Relationships; Collaborative Marketing; Value Co-creation; Relationship Portfolio Management; Value Creation; Cases; Marketing; Sports; Sports Industry; Europe
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    • Research Summary

    Resource Relatedness and the Location Strategy of the Multi-Business Firm

    We provide new insights into firm location decisions by disentangling and comparing location strategies of multibusiness firms and standalone firms in the same industries. We find that units of multibusiness firms exhibit internal agglomeration, which is stronger than... View Details
    Keywords: Multibusiness Firm; Agglomeration; Resource Redeployment; Corporate Strategy