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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
variety and quality, not a lot of duplicate mainstream content” The good news: Advertising encourages bloggers to produce more and longer content, leavened with more photos and video, which prompts more bookmarking among readers. This... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
investing in a range of new products, customer experiences, and organizational capabilities designed to make the company fit for enduring success in a turbulent global economy. Set against the backdrop of the Great Recession, the case also considers the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
2018 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business By: Gupta, Sunil Abstract—Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
platform might be too good to be true. The company was crowdsourcing creative work, inviting people to both pitch ideas and create marketing videos — and promising to pay anywhere from a few hundred for the best concepts to several... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
study how transparency into the levels and changes of relative sustainability performance affects consumer choices. Our work considers two forms of transparency: process transparency, in which customers receive information about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
to consumers and thereby fuel demand for their cars. Entering a complementary business requires that companies do their accounting a little differently. You cannot measure the profitability of the two businesses independently, nor can you... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Smith Barney; Janet M. Green (MBA '88), partner at Ernst & Young; Ann M. Sarnoff (MBA '87), senior vice president of Nickelodeon; and Nancy C. Walker (MBA '86), general manager of Mosby Consumer Health. Among their words of advice to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
fundamentals—treating the consumer as boss and focusing on P&G's big brands, top markets, and key customers—are being hailed for their "revolutionary" impact. As one analyst told Fortune magazine last spring: "In the eighteen years that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
team spent several days in Casablanca interviewing local consumers about their furniture shopping experience and helped the client create a strategy to compete against IKEA in Morocco. This experience allowed me to learn about the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, and artisans with their core market while bringing the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
in part, perhaps, to its tough, unglamorous realities. “Anyone who does a good job in the food industry and makes money works really, really hard,” says Keith Garner, owner of Pasta Cuisine, a restaurant and catering business in Oakland,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Supplement
Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case describes Keroche’s growth after entering the beer business in 2008. Although the company was operating at full capacity and not able to fulfill all of its orders, Tabitha Karanja had set a goal of growing Keroche’s share of the Kenyan beer market from... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Beverages; Beer; Beer Market; Premium Beer; Manufacturing; Production; Production Capacity; Capacity; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financing and Loans; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (E): Considering Additional Capacity." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-394, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
during meetings or some other way. For example, gifts and services are appreciated by people more than ever before. Gifts of consumable items are actually valued these days! A fruit basket looks pretty exciting. Especially View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
during meetings or some other way. For example, gifts and services are appreciated by people more than ever before. Gifts of consumable items are actually valued these days! A fruit basket looks pretty exciting. Especially View Details