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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The demands are particularly acute at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
said Pearson, “but we also operate a ferry service, cater weddings and corporate outings, and five high-ropes course installations used by many people who’ve never done anything like that before. We’ve had to cultivate expertise in a lot... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
provided food—delivering food, distributing grocery cards, and setting up sites where people can pick up food. We’ve helped bridge the gap between paychecks. Partnering with the ICA Watershed, we are using their facility in East Boston and work with their View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores
cater to diverse customer requirements, they still maintain a small production line dedicated to traditional 100% clinker cement. This balanced approach ensures they can meet the needs of all their customers while steadily pushing towards... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
“Most of my kids’ playmates are Finnish, and they have a Saturday morning school where they learn the Finnish language,” he says. “There are probably 8 to 10 organizations catering to the Finnish community in Boston.” All that... View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
fellow MBAs and cross registrants, a significant number of which continue as ongoing businesses (for example, the Phreesia (PHR) case study: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38231 ). For an optional catered session, you... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Traditional financial advisors cater to baby boomers with substantial savings, requiring minimum amounts for investment upwards of $100,000 to access their services. By contrast, industry-leading Wealthfront and similar firms such as... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
savings from the loans to lower taxes. "This action is consistent with politicians seeking reelection by catering to taxpayers' preference for low taxes, which represents a likely channel for the previous result on the effects on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
activities that are increasingly going on, it's important to be able to cater to investors' appetite for information. Investors are no longer happy being fed with only the information that managers decide to give them. There are high... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for a 26-year-old backpacker. I might be willing to pay quite a bit for a service that caters to my needs and puts me in touch with other similarly-minded people. The key is to identify what the value is to your customer and build your... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
political ends, such as higher employment. "Typically in research on regulatory capture, special interests put pressure on politicians, for example, firms pay money; in my story it comes because a politician wants to be reelected, and therefore View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
system of standardized benefits selected by experts like them, are likely to be the most vocal opponents. Q: Your article mentions several "scare stories" that are told to frighten people away from a consumer-driven model. These scare stories include the idea... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
blocked from more traditional work, opened restaurants. But they had to cater to the American palate by adding sweetness to their dishes and combining Chinese and American ingredients into innovations like chop suey and the aforementioned... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
sign-up process is easy. Service members and veterans can validate their military service against a government database or a military financial institution catering to nine million military customers through a real-time process. (For... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
eyeballs," says Zhu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "Content providers are serving advertisers rather than the audience, and consumers with niche preferences will be out of luck because the content they're seeking only View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Harvard College freshman when she got a job working for the catering arm of Harvard Student Agencies. “I absolutely loved it,” she recalls. “It was a fantastic experience that helped me realize how much I enjoy working hard.” By her... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
that there's actually a cost of privilege," Neeley says. "People often think that they need to cater only to those who they perceive are on the losing end of something that is spurred by an organizational change. This study shows that in... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
skill of microtargeting — identifying small, intense subgroups and communicating with them about their individual needs and wants — has never been more critical in marketing or in political campaigns. The one-size-fits-all approach to the world is dead.” In politics,... View Details
Keywords: Government