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- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes With InMobi and now Glance, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia from the ground up. Growing... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
conduct research and gain access to company managements. Clusters allow companies to operate more productively than where they must do things themselves (vertical integration) or where they must outsource goods and ideas from distant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
global poverty for some time. They believe that in pursuing its own self-interest in opening and expanding the BOP market, business can make a profit while serving the poorest of consumers and contributing to development. As Rangan... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
consumers who used to be loyal department store customers. "I think department stores are in the process of significant change," said Pat Chadwick, senior vice president of northeast regional stores for Bloomingdale's, at a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
willing to pay more for the latter. Unfortunately, by purposefully ignoring real differences in what consumers were willing to pay for Black-owned rentals and basing its calculations on data from predominantly white-owned properties, the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies quality choice in a model where View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting scarcity of informed investors exacerbates market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
plan’s rationale, noting that climate-change efforts had cost Unilever $200 million in 2011 and predicting a political crisis if something was not done about inequitable growth. “Total profits of the consumer View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
decades? SG: Cost is absolutely a challenge. We’re very fortunate at HBS to have the capability to provide robust financial aid packages and to be able to support our students while also furthering our research and our goals. We’re always... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
at Shearson Lehman Brothers when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The life-threatening ordeal inspired her to make a pact with a higher power: "If You get me through this, I will give something back." After recovering fully from her illness, Langer made View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. Research Task View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
time had a socialistic leaning. Advertising and marketing were not considered good things. You had so many poor people in the country who couldn’t even put a meal on their table and here you were trying to sell Coca-Cola or fancy products... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in corporate culture aimed at promoting a positive bond with consumers based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Arum Kang
As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and... View Details
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Sebastien D'Incau
Chances are (metaphorically speaking), Sebastien D'Incau has been in your home. As a marketing strategist and planner with Procter & Gamble, Sebastien worked on a number or products familiar to consumers worldwide, including the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel