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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should provide information about the company's strategic goals and main value drivers. They should also discuss the risks associated with the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and making sure winners and losers... View Details
- February 2020
- Supplement
Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature
By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
Shaklee Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Alison Comings
Having bought Shaklee Corporation from Yamanouchi, Roger Barnett, its owner and CEO, wrestled with the question of how to grow the company and its reputation for environmental sustainability. In addition to preserving the "network marketing" nature of its sales channel... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Channels; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Reputation
Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Alison Comings. "Shaklee Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 509-031, October 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session “Crafting the Future of Green... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
with matching funds from nonprofit organizations and the government, they are able to prod the listening public into contributing sufficient funds to sustain the public good. “The point is not that coordination is easy, or automatic. But... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Examples," Sebenius details how "3-D negotiation" provides practitioners with skills for effective dealmaking that create value on a sustainable basis. According to Sebenius, the first dimension of negotiation is by far the... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high-margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
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authors of What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success spent five years analyzing two hundred well-known and popular business practices to tell you what really works (and, surprisingly, what does not) to get and keep... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important metrics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
A good way to build a large base of users is to offer something valuable for free. That's been the strategy so far behind Codeacademy. In just a few short years since its inception in 2011, the company has grown into one of the world's... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
managed centrally. This level of control is conducive to protecting the organization's brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of control might be particularly desirable when the program being... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
Aetna’s move is not consumer friendly, it does make financial sense–at least for the time being. According to CEO Mark Bertolini, Aetna sustained more than $430 million in pre-tax losses since January 2014 in the individual health... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
time. Is B Lab's tripartite strategy its secret sauce or its albatross? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411047-PDF-ENG Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P. Christopher Marquis,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
Synthetic biology start-up C16 Biosciences wants to solve a big problem: replace palm oil, a major contributor to deforestation and climate change, with a lab-grown substitute. CEO Shara Ticku has ambitious plans to supply her lab-grown palm oil to food manufacturers,... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Environmental Sustainability; Social Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Product Positioning; Venture Capital; Strategy; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Olivia Hull. "C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil." Harvard Business School Case 820-008, October 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
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