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- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
communicate them.” The reason might be as simple as employees not knowing about the incentive programs. Leslie John, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and a team of researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Supplement
Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case discusses the Kenyan government’s decision to increase excise taxes on wines in 2007. The tax increase would cause an average increase in price of 367% on Keroche’s fortified wines. Meanwhile, Keroche’s competitor EABL had effectively lobbied the government... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Drinks; Alcoholic Beverages; Beverages; Drinks; Wine Industry; Wine; Fortified Wine; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-392, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
phenomenon, suggesting that the benefits of stock-bond diversification have increased in all developed markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52494 Harvard Business School Case 417-054 Merging... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says Harvard View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
imperial business. These companies only had a small head office in the metropolitan country, often in major port cities or the capital, which supervised the operations in another, normally less developed, country, where all View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
academics call transactional “friction.” As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value. At a 2019 business conference, Brian Chesky,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
going into the job, a huge handicap that leads to poor foreign policy. Our leaders assume that the U.S. model of business and governance is ideal, with some small adjustments, for all countries and that our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
people who are thinking about it. But the HR director is a very experienced and quite strategic thinker and he's an adviser to the CEO on strategy as well as the CFO and others. SS: How does a small business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
same time, Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek was seeking case studies for his second-year Marketing and Innovation course. "I was looking for new products and innovations that were unexpected successes—things that you... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This leadership experience tends to turn... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
previously lived outside India rely significantly more on diaspora networks for business leads and financing. This is especially true for entrepreneurs who are based outside software hubs—where getting leads to new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
of one of the keys to leadership: the notion of accountability. Badaracco, the school's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, uses the novel as part of his course called The Moral Leader, an unusual course for MBA students in which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
Kikovic Each year, the small northeast Texas town of Marshall pulls out all of the stops for its annual Wonderland of Lights festival. And for years, South Korean electronics company Samsung also worked hard to make it special. The... View Details
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
unit at Harvard Business School. “For years I imagined this group of people sitting around a table, having to make very important decisions, such as defining the CEO’s compensation package. And I always wondered, what do they talk about?... View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
PublicationsRethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract : "Business Schools... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace