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- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
prices. These stores kept their costs down partly by moving into low-rent commercial spaces and hiring unskilled, low-wage workers, rather than trained pharmacists. Against predatory pricing Although these competitors didn’t sell... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
than already-mixed concrete delivered by trucks. A more significant finding was that do-it-yourself projects have a special significance for this demographic. Building projects, the team learned, provided more than the functional benefits of extra living View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
“Soon after that, the head of the UDA asked him to become its director general.” Colombo’s Diyawanna Lake incorporates some of what Mawilmada expects to see in the more environmentally sensitive areas of the city—recreational spaces that... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Business School Case 318-004 Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
meant that the manufacturing floor was increasingly allocating more space to microprocessors. As that more profitable market grew, Intel became a microprocessor company, not a memory company. These operating level decisions changed the de... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
disenfranchised groups in telling their own stories, in their own way. Her intersectional, cross-pollinating work—research, education, art, activism, and digital security—helps to create a more generous, global, expansive, and inclusive definition of South Asian... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
million in the prior year. Salaries and benefits, the largest component of operating expenses, increased approximately 3 percent to $386 million. With faculty and staff pay rates remaining flat in fiscal 2021, the variance primarily related to the roughly 5 percent... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
access to natural light. You have a human scale that really brings you into this space that feels comfortable and inviting. The entrance of Estes Funeral Chapel. "I was looking to have a design that was transformational in terms of... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
"deterritorialization" of culture and its stretching out in geographic space has numerous opportunities for cross-border marketing to diaspora or expatriate communities, especially now that they are better connected to their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
Harvard Business School, where his work focuses on the future of cities, particularly as aided by the private finance and delivery of public infrastructure projects in both the developed and emerging worlds. [Image: Goddard Space Flight... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
even if we remove physical constraints of shelf space and supply chains." Andrei Iordache agreed, writing, " there will always be at least one element in the economic equation that will be marked by scarcity . Despite consumers'... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
interviews, it’s important to note that candidates may not have access to the latest technology at home or could be sharing living spaces with limited private or quiet areas. These factors do not impact how well a candidate could do the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
that are compatible with Zoom backgrounds, could be sharing living space with limited private quiet areas, or managing multiple responsibilities including child or elder care. None of these factors impact how well a candidate could do the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Consultant at McKinsey & Co., served as moderator. The panel pointed out that only 2.7% of venture capital money goes to female founders. “People cannot believe the percentage is so low,” says Greub, adding that the predominantly male VC View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
- virtually an HBS case study itself in logistics management. According to one planner, Foundations core design team member Stever Robbins (MBA '91), coordinating 253 individual schedules and the needs of six sets of faculty members while locating View Details
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
date on climate change news is an important way to get educated and find out about new industries and job openings. Look at areas where VCs are investing to understand future growth areas. Policy and technological advancements are moving quickly in the climate View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
sales, retail metrics for multiproduct settings, and shelf space constraints. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606023 Publications Technology and Industry Evolution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
frequent tributes to "science," he gives ample space to dissenting opinions. If this made his book more difficult and less persuasive, then so be it. Striking an almost defiant tone, Schumpeter says in his preface, "The... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
merchandising. Look at who is buying what product. Make sure that you are well stocked and have given a lot of shelf space to items that your best customers purchase. Do the same for slow-moving items. For example, prunes are often an... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details