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  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Life Lessons

only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

both theory and practice. In the United States, for example, the amount invested in sales forces exceeds an estimated $800 billion a year. That's more than three times the money US firms spend annually on all media and advertising, at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

2017 Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies at Oxford University, Said Business School. Author of numerous articles in the Harvard Business Review and other top academic journals, Ibarra also writes for business media including the... View Details
  • Career Coach

Wendi Zhang

Wendi partners with MBA students and alumni to meet them where they are in their career journey, and 1) if undecided - helps them get clarity, 2) if decided - coaches them in taking the next steps to reach the next goal post(s), and 3) upon reaching the next goal -... View Details
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  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

empower teams who are closer to the customer and unlock the full potential of organizations. While born in the software world, the approach is viewed as transformative in both software and hardware across sectors, including financial... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

Matsubara clinic also has 18 beds for in-patient services, an option that Sato-san has exercised for one week each month since July, mainly to ease the burden of his care on his wife. Dr. Umeda and the nurse eventually set a date for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

downloads, and other emerging digital media (such as Internet Protocol TV). BBC WW delivered its profits back to the BBC. Since 2004, BBC WW profits had more than doubled. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

excluded the use of sulfites, while in Europe some use was permitted. For winemakers, distributors and retailers, navigating the complex layers of regulations regarding organic wine was enormously time intensive. Many winemakers chose to forego organic certification so... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative Cloud where consumers paid a monthly subscription fee. Within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

such as the launch of HBS Online, increased financial aid, tackled challenges posed by COVID, and introduced diversity frameworks. Her work will further strengthen relationships within the School and across Harvard University, fostering a... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

2000. A coalition of 60 artists Against Piracy—including Alanis Morissette, Hanson, and Bon Jovi—supported this effort. With financial support from RIAA, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, Disney, Myplay.com, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 17 Jan 2025
  • News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

the way we were. I had developed a strategy of get smaller, get bigger, or M&A, and we tried all three of them. M&A was sort of natural to us. Bob Carney and I were financial guys to some extent, and we weren't afraid of the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

New Ventures New Gains

reaching a high of $243 amidst much media fanfare. But like many early dot-com success stories, Perry, who has been called a founding father of the business-to-business online marketplace, has experienced the effects of gravity lately.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services