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Evaluate sustainable pricing strategies and discover how operational transparency builds customer trust. Highlights Jon Staff, Founder & CEO, Getaway Zameer Kassam, Founder & CEO, Zameer Kassam Fine Jewelry Sustainable Pricing Augmentation View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Life, faced decisions about the company's growth strategy. Despite profound initial skepticism about demand for a user-generated virtual world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had achieved View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
reapers, threshers, and harvesters that could significantly increase grain output. The growth of registered patents from several thousand a year in the mid 1800s to over 50,000 a year by the end of the century was indicative of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
society—taken into account alongside its profits—will be a transformative step on the road to a more sustainable form of capitalism, according to Cohen. Thoughtful leaders will see this moment as a paradigm shift and an opportunity to enhance View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
really my job to think about the health of society or the planet. My job is to put my head down and run a profitable business.” Now we’re at a moment where many of us look around at the federal government and say, “Excuse me, we have a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
economic growth in industrial countries began to slow down. All of a sudden companies found that they couldn't do everything. They had to make some choices and needed a way to think about it. The economics of strategy seems to be a very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
Ramirez learned how to operate a nonprofit organization like a profitable business. From operations and technology to sales and marketing, she dug in deeply to bring the best of for-profit business models into an impact-driven setting. In... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
earnings with a legacy of coal and gas fired power plants against its futuristic vision. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718414-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-009 Zalora Philippines: From Growth to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
million company." He immediately began to shake things up. While Mutti did well in the retail arena with its tomato paste, the market was small and getting smaller since fewer Italians were cooking from scratch. Other tomato processing companies weren't faring well.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
markets, such as the one for patents, generally create profit opportunities for intermediaries. We begin with an overview of the problems that arise in patent markets, and how traditional institutions like patent brokers, patent pools,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
human) disaster risk, response, and recovery preparation. B: Basic Resources. There is massive growth in urban populations as hundreds of millions of people move to cities seeking opportunity (UNPD). Already, there is not enough clean... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
better way, a market-proven, step-by-step program to achieve sustained growth with rising profits and lower costs. The authors suggest that given the right incentives, managers using this program can produce... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Professor Ramanna explores the political processes determining our system of accounting rules by which corporate profits are reliably measured. He shows how some corporate interests, to increase profits, have been manipulating the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
incremental change, while also seizing new markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation rule the day. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50401 forthcoming European Economic Review Taxation, Corruption, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs
By: George Serafeim, Lena Duchene and Carlota Moniz
By August 2023, Re-Match, an artificial turf waste-to-value company, had operations in Denmark and the Netherlands and had recycled over 160,000 tons of waste and plastic fiber. With recent capital injection from the VC firm Verdane and a dual revenue business model,... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Abatement; Sustainability; Recycling; Waste Management; Technology; Entrepreneurial Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Energy Conservation; Investment Return; Profit; Technological Innovation; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Sports; Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Sports Industry; Denmark; Netherlands; France; United States; Pennsylvania; Europe
Serafeim, George, Lena Duchene, and Carlota Moniz. "Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs." Harvard Business School Case 124-032, October 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- January 2025
- Case
Untapped Global: Financing Africa’s Missing Middle
By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
suppliers are more likely to share this information when requests from buyers are more prevalent, when buyers appear committed to using the information, when suppliers belong to more profitable industries, and when suppliers are located... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne