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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
collateral business. For long-term strategy, the company is weighing two options. One, invest in expanding their client base and extending it beyond the sports market, targeting all kinds of community events like fairs and festivals. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
integration.” Within two years of buying out Zain, operating in Africa as Airtel, Bharti has added more than 14 million new mobile customers (for a current total exceeding 50 million), while investing approximately US$1 billion in network... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s largest View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Photo Courtesy The Timken Company Product innovation and customer service initiatives have also been key to development of The Timken Company, a 104-year-old bearing and steel maker based in Canton, Ohio,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
workforce, benefiting the community while also getting closer to its customer base and spurring innovation. But idealized win-win solutions such as these are both difficult and relatively uncommon. Many... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
Firms and Flexibility As job security and long-term relationships between corporations and their white-collar workers become relics of the past, what will link these two parties in the future? According to HBS assistant professor Jeffrey L. Bradach, a new model View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
school topic," says Rayport, who has witnessed a phenomenal increase in interest in the Internet and in Internet-based commerce. Today, every major business school is in hot pursuit of research and analysis of what's going on in the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
backing from Bling Capital, DCM, and Precursor Ventures. Saga grew its initial customer base during the pandemic as families searched for ways to stay connected across the distance, Lin says. Through the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
parlaying that one emporium into an empire of stores nationwide. Neiman Marcus introduced a number of innovations such as weekly department store fashion shows, personalized gift wrapping, a national advertising campaign (unheard of for a store not View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
common to both major corporations and mom-and-pop shops, and offered practical solutions based on his research. One case Narayanan used to illustrate his point involved a family-owned video store. Generally in the past, he said, as many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
After the first market simulation, students had two months to refine their ideas and develop a customer sales pitch, all leading up to Launch Day in mid-April. At that point, teams with a viable idea advanced to IPO Day on May 14. “This... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
in Latin America. The two-day event featured a case discussion (on Embraer, the Brazilian commercial aircraft manufacturer), presentations and analysis of new research, and discussions on the complexities of case writing throughout the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
orderly and linear way. In his new book, Technology Integration: Making Critical Choices in a Dynamic World, HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti presents a detailed analysis of what has become a vital challenge in every cutting-edge... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
customer base and are its fastest-growing segment. People assume that it’s mostly millennials who have the desire and savvy to manage their finances by mobile app, Savova says, but “we’ve found that people... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
innovation and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Senior Lecturer Retsinas and his coauthors aim to stimulate debate based on their analysis of the opportunities and challenges of the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
customer base and needed the administrative and technical power of an established firm. In brokering the deal with Macy’s, the Becks were determined to remain part of the company. Marla serves as CEO and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
marketing, Michael Moynihan (MBA 1993), has been with the company since 1996, long enough to remember its missteps in attempting to broaden Lego’s customer base by expanding into product categories such as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
electrolyzer, combines electricity and CO2, and splits water to make formic acid, which can be stored like a conventional hydrocarbon liquid (think gasoline). OCO can then manufacture and sell that formic acid to customers who use it... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon