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- 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
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
eyeglasses. They took a selfie. But it wasn’t until the second-year MBA course Entrepreneurial Finance that they discovered another similarity: Each was passionate about starting a business. “We got coffee in Spangler Grille one day after... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
donut chain wars, details near-death takeover moments, and expounds on why a donut and a cup of coffee represent much more than a simple morning pick-me-up. READ MORE Hanna: Your book opens by setting the scene almost like an HBS case.... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “We run A/B testing around price, around pictures, around menu descriptions,” says Izquierdo. “We... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
for virtual coffee chats inside or outside your company Lead virtual happy hours Invite a colleague or new connection to have a virtual lunch Set up a mixer video call in which each person invites one other person to join to talk about... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Executive Vice President, Kraft Foods, Inc.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
emotionally, mentally, and spiritually—I have to go step by step,” he says. “There are more than 4.2 billion people across Asia. We’re at the very, very beginning of this story, but I believe the concept has great potential. Starbucks revolutionized the View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
returns to incorporating ESG as an asset owner or manager. Highlights Non-Traditional Investment Criteria like ESG Introduction: California State Teachers' Retirement System CalSTRS: Effects of Shareholder Engagement Show Hide Details Concepts Sustainable Investing in... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
that expansions abroad reduce a firm's domestic activity, instead suggesting the opposite. The Finance Function in a Global Corporation Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
novel, The Brass Cupcake, he wrote, “Today as a writer, I am a small businessman in a highly competitive field, fabricating a product for sale in a buyers’ market, and required to establish my own merchandising and marketing procedures.”... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
people into a more communal relationship, they have a higher willingness to pay” According to Shelle M. Santana, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, I may have been influenced by communal norms.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there were forty-five Starbucks stores... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
structure) or you have to cut distribution to restore the exclusivity of the brand. Expect the 600 store closings to be the first of a series of downsizing announcements. Sometimes, in the world of marketing, less is more. Schultz sought, admirably, to bring good View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
didn’t grow up with any desire to move across the country. After all, I love winter! I love the accents! I love the oysters! I love the east coast so much that I stuck around for 26 years, during which I attended the University of Pennsylvania and followed my passion... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
At last year's Grammy Awards, singer Pharrell Williams wore such an outlandish hat—a cross between Smokey the Bear's forest-brown lid and The Sorting Hat at Gryffindor—that it quickly received its own Twitter account. Then some marketing... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Andrei, and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract—In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users who join a given platform. In this paper, we distinguish two ways in which rational expectations can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne