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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
You are the marketing director of Propecia, a new drug for hair restoration that's about to hit the market. But the drug can only be purchased via a physician's prescription. So do you advertise directly to balding men? Do you concentrate on View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Umit... View Details
- Web
1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
securities legislation of 1933–1934 and subsequent founding of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been regarded as a successful chapter in financial regulation. These efforts bear the stamp of Harvard Professor of Law James Landis, one of the first legal... View Details
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Wyss House | About
constructed in 1925 to house faculty, but has been repurposed several times over the decades. The latest renovation, under the direction of Baker Design Group, Inc., targeted layout and energy efficiency, creating a green building that... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2024
- Webinars: Career
Job Search 2.0: LinkedIn + ChatGPT Secrets Revealed
Jeremy Schifeling will dive into the most advanced LinkedIn and ChatGPT techniques to help alumni find a career path, build a fully tech-optimized profile, and ace your very next interview. View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
health policy, reimbursement and payment models, population health and care quality, technology and data analytics, workflow improvements, management tactics and more . Look for targeted news in industries like Biotech, Health IT and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
most likely to leave, and target the ones at the top of the list with new offers, sales, or promotions. The problem with that, however, is that not all customers are created equal. As Gupta and Lemmens showed in an early version of their... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
each year since its first event took place in September 2011; last year saw 11 events in eight countries, including a foray into mainland China (Beijing). In 2015, the target is 24 events, with 10 in China, according to ONE FC CEO and... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
sustainability when building EcoWorld. One of these requirements was in-house sewage treatment plant, which we had the opportunity to see during our tour (see Figure 4). Our tour also emphasized that RMZ targets going above and beyond... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
setting targets for these financial measures, organizations may be tempted to turn to commercial benchmarking services, such as the Hackett Group's Best Practices surveys. Hackett regularly produces a "book of numbers" for... View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
emissions by partially offsetting required academic student air travel, increasing our plant-based food options in our dining venues & catering menus, and targeting lower embodied carbon building materials to purchase for renovation... View Details
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
professionals to know about the world beyond the hospital’s walls. “A lot of them are interested, but there is no formal avenue. All existing resources assume a certain level of knowledge, but our colleagues need us to start from the ground up.” They knew they wanted... View Details
- November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security
By: Elie Ofek
In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States
Ofek, Elie. "Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security." Harvard Business School Case 524-043, November 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
bank accounts at all—they wanted effective ways to send money home to their families. The case's key lesson is the importance of meeting the real needs of your target audience, not the needs as you perceive them, says professor V. Kasturi... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
migrant communities. Among these, African migrants emerged as the most suitable target audience due to their disproportionate payment fees (exceeding 10% in some cases) and continued reliance on money-transfer operators for remittances.... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
learning to come up with a communication strategy targeting different segments.” We drafted a booklet that answered a lot of challenging questions about what it means to be gay, and the administration agreed to produce 1,000 of them. They... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
The Firm With The Sword And The Shield Of Asymmetries The power of asymmetries is why the signals of change question is so important. Companies that develop different ways to target nonconsumers and overshot customers can create a new... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
running around the house," Nanda says. "After seeing its product in the field for some time, iRobot has since improved the original Roomba and is introducing other new products like the Scooba [a robot mop] that are targeted to... View Details