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- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
short-term spike. What makes for good online learning? Patrick Mullane: First, you need to start with a pedagogy. What’s your way of teaching? It’s your teaching soul and you need to stay true to that, whether in a classroom or online. At... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
partners who demonstrate that they can move quickly and help Saga learn, while also experimenting with digital D2C marketing that can be rapidly iterated. —Chad Laurans (MBA 2006), CEO and cofounder of SimpliSafe Yes and Yes Word of mouth is everything for a View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
"I'm sure there are periods when Mercadona's payroll is higher than it's supposed to be," she says. "That's the cost of stability for them. But they don't worry too much about that blip in their profit margins because they believe that stability overall... View Details
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Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research
the Industries tab at the top of the page, search for industries. Limiting the search to "Research" will limit the results to recent market, industry and sector reports. Also, a good source for news. View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
lot of items,” he says. “Although I was doing well, the business quickly outgrew me. I knew I needed more training.” So he returned to college at NYU’s School of Business, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class. Then he went straight to HBS. “Harvard gave me... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus and investment. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
sporting goods companies. But Kim and Coup weren’t interested in selling the company yet. Meanwhile, Timberland, based in Stratham, New Hampshire, had been assembling a collection of brands under the umbrella of its outdoor group to... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
price remains a primary determinant of whether a consumer will buy a product, free shipping provides an added enhancement for online merchants to consider. Shoppers are only one-tenth as sensitive to increases in shipping fees as they are... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
Eric Boutin
AI. Prior to dRx, Eric was Founder and CEO of Evolve, an AI-powered consumer tech company, which was acquired by HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS). He was Founder and CEO of Good Start Genetics, a reproductive health and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on consumer Internet, mobile... View Details
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Patrick Akl
Growing up in Lebanon, Patrick Akl lived with a fascination for consumer electronics – and with the ever-present fear of war. “We often had to sleep in an underground bunker,” Patrick says. “And the conflict caused setbacks in my father’s... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
on-demand programming. Priced at $39.99 per month, Hulu Live TV offered consumers a tremendous savings over traditional cable program packages and allowed subscribers to watch programs on Internet-connected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Casey Gerald
book of second-year EC colleagues. When he wanted to know more about consumer goods in Asia, he found an expert on retailing in Japan through the Retail & Luxury Goods... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
income, adjusted for inflation, was 300 percent higher than in 1869. Combined with the early 20th century’s rise in leisure time, the use of installment credit, and advertising, Americans acquired a taste for consumer View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
shop or move their operations. Even worse, the loss of a commons may cut off future opportunities for the emergence of new innovative sectors if they require close access to the same capabilities. Four decades ago, when US consumer... View Details