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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
positioning of the brand to move upmarket or down market? Which value proposition offered the most future promise: functional differentiation, lifestyle differentiation, or celebrity endorsement? Should the company continue to serve both men and women of all ages, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
regions that Ekal serves. Was it time for Ekal to reevaluate their vision; was the target of 100,000 schools, which had driven their growth thus far, still the best path forward? Or was it time to declare their mission of universal access... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
across countries and not target only premium tiers? Will the takedown request lead to other artists considering a defection from the service, and if so, what can Spotify's executives do to prevent others from leaving? And, as it is only a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
"failure" rates to near zero. NewCo, a firm that designs enterprise servers, obtained a different type of benefit. In one recent project, the firm was having difficulty meeting the target cost due to the high price of one component. So... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
with an initial enterprise value between $5 million and $15 million. Just seven months after raising the fund, they were about to close a deal on a target company, but the seller wants to renegotiate. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
four different segments—food services, industry, retail, and beverages—and exported 17% of its production, mostly to the United States, Europe, and Japan. El Rey needed to grow, but Redmond wondered how to achieve growth and how to market the "El Rey" brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
cases of the model are a long-lived pressure group offering rewards and punishments to a series of targets (public or corporate officials) in exchange for policy favors, or that of a long-lived extorter who demands money in order not to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
needed to identify the sometimes small number of patients who could benefit from expensive targeted drugs. This case focuses on the array of possibilities and the ambiguity surrounding these regulatory and reimbursement issues. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
businesses. Gemini's target investment size was between $4 million and $6 million, and a typical portfolio company had revenue of between $8 million and $30 million. In early 2010, Gemini was completing the investment of Gemini's Fund IV,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Garvin and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 311-008 In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Knowing where and how much the target is currently losing with unprofitable products and customers, the acquirer can develop a profit plan based on transforming unprofitable relationships into profitable ones. The increased cash flow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
up-and-coming areas that could improve even more with a little boost, as well as in stagnating areas that could use more investment. By picking up nuances on a street-by-street basis, the method could allow planners and developers to View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
the ones who are the real experts, you know?" In the eventual field experiment, researchers launched two recruitment campaigns. Each targeted half of 48 randomly selected rural districts across the country. In 24 districts, potential... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
since traditionally PE investing has not been associated with greater innovation. Taken as a whole, the findings show that PE firms can use digital transformation as a viable means of increasing the value of their portfolio companies.” Owners of View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Abstract—New technology ventures often experience deviations from their original plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
that can be performed. We argue that Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be used to improve the effectiveness of inspections by allowing cities to target restaurants that are most likely to have a hygiene violation. In this work, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
buyer's acquisition, possession, or usage costs. Driven by a buying unit: Companies don't buy, people do. Performance pricers target buying units within accounts. Selling higher-priced solutions to purchasing, for instance, rarely works.... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
in terms of donors' sex, marital status, maximum educational level, or estimated hourly wage. However, the entrepreneurial venture's donors were significantly younger, more likely to be from a minority group, and more likely to have died from cancer. Thus, each program... View Details