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- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness
About the Project 09 Aug 2013 Video Dean Nitin Nohria Announces the U.S. Competitiveness Project Video What Is the U.S. Competitiveness Project? 02 Apr 2015 Video An Economy Doing Half Its Job Re: Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin The U.S.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
US and Canadian stores, it also announced it had “committed to pay all Starbucks US and Canada retail partners for the next 30 days whether or not their store is closed, or they are otherwise unable, or even uncomfortable, coming to work.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail
to fail at giving speeches. During one of our final meals, HBS professor Anita Elberse announced that a student from each section would be selected to speak to the overall class (over 180+ people) at the closing ceremony as a way to... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- June 2007 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
The CW: Launching a Television Network
By: Anita Elberse and S. Mark Young
In May 2006, Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment of the newly formed CW Television Network, was faced with the task of choosing the final set of programs for the 2006 fall schedule, which she would present to advertisers at the annual "upfront" market in New York... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Networks; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Elberse, Anita, and S. Mark Young. "The CW: Launching a Television Network." Harvard Business School Case 507-050, June 2007. (Revised March 2011.)
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health
In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
Gulati, Ranjay, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health." Harvard Business School Case 424-029, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Gradient Ventures Lauren Taylor Wolfe , Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital This panel will highlight how we can effectively build the governance mechanisms for climate action. Thousands of companies have publicly announced... View Details
- 12 Oct 2021
- News
Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks
article announcing the move in Bloomberg. Before that, he spent 24 years at Morgan Stanley, becoming the firm's first African-American managing director in 1989. Lewis was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Harvard Management... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
India, announced plans to transform from a commercial real estate developer to a diversified alternative asset owner. Over the next 5 years, RMZ looked to grow its real estate portfolio from $13 billion to $40 billion and generate an... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
as his daughter Anna and her husband, Thomas C. Nelson (MBA '88), are graduates of the School. In addition, Spangler has been deeply involved in a broad range of HBS activities and was a 1988 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. An HBS professorship also bears... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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remote (and using a VPN), include job IDs for your submitted jobs, and any error logs. Name* Email* Describe the Issue* Use 5 W's as your guide: who, what, where, when, and why. * Required field Live Demos Stay tuned for announcements... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
market participants and the financial press. Monetary policy announcements are analyzed word by word for clues to the central bank's future actions. Such scrutiny seems inconsistent to interest rate setting models in which policy makers... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- May 2010
- Article
Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008
By: Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta
Delaware's antitakeover statute, codified at Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code, is by far the most important antitakeover statute in the United States. When it was first enacted in 1988, three bidders challenged its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Laws and Statutes; Decisions; Change; Acquisition; United States
Subramanian, Guhan, Steven Herscovici, and Brian Barbetta. "Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008." Business Lawyer 65, no. 3 (May 2010): 685–752. (Selected by academics as one of the “top ten” articles in corporate/securities law for 2010, out of 447 articles published in that year.)
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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals Washington, DC (July 18, 2019): Leaders from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness gathered on Capitol Hill today to... View Details
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
up a task force to determine the extent of the problem and evaluate proposed fixes, some of which Luca had recommended and described in a Harvard Business Review article coauthored with Ray Fisman. The company has since made a series of View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
of the mediator, he opened discussions by announcing that the eventual outcome was obvious and that he was prepared to make a final offer: 3 percent, the most he could have offered. The union's leadership was pleased by this offer—yet... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
decision was announced captures the despair and anger of the workers to be displaced. It also captures a management team trying to act reasonably by giving workers a rare one-year notice of the move—but doing so with a tin ear. For... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create and strengthen connections among and between HBS... View Details