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Placement - Doctoral

School Dissertation: Contests for Consumption: Empirical evidence from professional sports on contest theory” Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Co-Chair), Karim R. Lakhani (Co-Chair), and Srikant M. Datar Alexandra Scherf Accounting & Management, 2021 Placement: London School... View Details
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising. by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse Shapiro explain how their latest research is playing out in... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Doctoral

and Management, the dissertation may take the form of three publishable papers or one longer dissertation. Recent questions students have explored include the ways in which managers use retail-level marketing actions to influence the timing of View Details
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

employee of one of the JV partners. The (A) case discusses the JV's "business as usual" approach to doing business in the context of Nigeria's political culture and the involvement of Albert "Jack" Stanley, the JV's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2022
  • HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

that might be different from other forms of political corporate engagement,” says Hsieh, about the challenges of maintaining customers’ trust in an international fishbowl. A pressure play Based in Switzerland—a country that prides itself... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement

Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Rights; Working Conditions; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Cambodia; United States
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  • June 2013 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Valero Energy Corporation and Tight Oil

By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Eric Adamson, Aaron Byrd, Ned Chiverton, Mariko Meier and Rob Rain
Valero Energy, an incredibly successful US refiner, needs to make some decisions about tight oil. As production of light tight oil increases—from Eagle Ford, Bakken and elsewhere—Valero considers whether to add topping capacity to handle it, on top of its recent... View Details
Keywords: Petroleum; Oil ＆ Gas; Energy; Environment; Refining; Globalization; Tight Oil; Strategy; Natural Environment; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Policy; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 01 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

the Games by any company. Most consumers around the world do not let their political views affect their purchase decisions. However, we are likely to see Web sites promoting boycotts of Chinese brands such... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports
  • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households

By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The federal government currently spends over $100 billion per year on policies aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among low income households. These include price-, nutrition education-, and access-related interventions. Currently, the government... View Details
Keywords: Bi-level Optimization; Optimal Subsidies; Public Policy; Food Policy; Central Planner; Government Administration; Poverty; Food; Nutrition
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  • December 2018 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Forest L. Reinhardt and Emer Moloney
Agriculture was Ireland’s largest indigenous industry. Its agri-food sector was export driven, with almost 90% of production exported. Bord Bia was the Irish government agency charged with the promotion, trade development, and marketing of the Irish food, drink, and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Trends; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Public Sector; Trade; Education; Food; Geography; Geographic Location; Rural Scope; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Planning; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion; Business Strategy; Diversification; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Europe
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  • 03 Nov 2008
  • HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a good way to go—but not so... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy
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Hiring Organizations

Fierce Whiskers Distillery Fillip Fingo Africa FinTech Collective Fiserv Five Arrows Managers - Rothschild & Co Flyers Cocktail Co FoodCloud Forbright Bank Ford Motor Company ForgePoint Capital Forward Consumer Partners Founder Collective... View Details
  • November 2021
  • Article

A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary Drink Buying

By: Grant E. Donnelly, Paige Guge, Ryan Howell and Leslie John
Many governments have introduced sugary drink excise taxes to reduce purchasing and consumption of such drinks; however, they do not typically stipulate how such taxes should be communicated at point-of-purchase. Historical, field, and experimental data entailing over... View Details
Keywords: Decision-making; Open Data; Open Materials; Preregistered; Health; Policy; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making
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Research Areas - Doctoral

environment in which businesses operate. Drawing from perspectives of economic theory, political science, and history, they examine the “rules” and policies established by government and other non-business institutions that affect... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

reputational or status incentives. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail By: Chen, Chaoqun, and Donald Ngwe Abstract—Shipping fees are an important aspect of online retail for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Dec 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

we document are driven by imports, rather than exports, and by integration with democratic partners that account for a larger share of a country’s trade in institutionally intensive, cultural, and consumer goods, as well as in goods that... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

marketers, says HBS professor John Quelch. Credit: Gage Skidmore Show the past as prologue. Offering consumers the adventure of voting for an uncertain future never works with the majority, especially if your brand is new to the game.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

to accessing discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and increase conversion. We demonstrate using a simple theoretical framework that inducing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman