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- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
and well-lit interiors. HUL cracked the challenge of sustainability by adopting a cross-subsidy model. Families pay 150 per month for unlimited toilet and bathroom use, while the laundromat, priced at 75 per 8 kg load, helps cover costs.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Publication:RAND Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
work. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-039 Goldman Sachs' Digital Journey No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and interventions that directly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
South Africa, for example, the government's support for the transfer of assets to the historically disenfranchised native African community—a laudable social objective—has affected the development of the capital market. Such transfers usually View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
went into a downward spiral as nitrate prices collapsed. It became highly inward looking and had one of the slowest rates of growth in Latin America for decades. Argentina’s fall from grace was less immediate, but more prolonged. Populist... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not benefit more from Muslim political representation than children from other religious groups.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
prices, the former implies convexity in the smaller of the two valuations, the latter linearity. In either case, the price is at least their average and hence spiteful. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
instance, is a tool that people can use to analyze their industries. A tool has no value on its own, it’s how we use it that gives it value. But the tool cannot be blamed for anything!” — Costas Markides Robert P. Bauman Professor of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
overall, we’ll continue to do a good job for our clients and grow the business. What does “accountability” mean in the context of running a financial firm? Tell the truth, serve people, have integrity. Have the ability, guts, and courage to say View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bradley: America’s GI General, 1893-1981 by Steven L. Ossad (MBA 1976) University of Missouri When Omar Nelson Bradley began his military career more than a century ago, the army rode horses into combat and had less than 200,000 men. No... View Details
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
http://hbr.org/product/dia-dia-practimercados-meeting-the-daily-needs-at-the-base-of-the-pyramid-b/an/314085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-054 The Deep: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector (A) No abstract available. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
distributors, although important and useful for a certain portfolio of products, are no longer appropriate for a different subset. How can you overcome resistance from a powerful channel partner, such as a brand-name manufacturer or a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
fears of Chinese expansion, Pan alleged, particularly in business circles. She said the practice of guanxi, or relationship-building, is no different from the West's "old boy network." Pan cautioned Westerners not to make generalizations... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these crimes in the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
reusable, highly safe, and can make many repeated dives to anywhere on the bottom of the ocean,” Vescovo says. “There’s no restriction anymore.” (He won’t discuss the total costs of this expedition, but the announced View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51587 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure By: Jin, Ginger Zhe, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin Abstract—This paper uses laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel