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12 Jan 2010
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real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, managers of pension funds subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) may feel legally constrained... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

29 Apr 2020
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The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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Keroche (D): Transforming the Core Business

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case describes Keroche co-founder Tabitha Karanja’s decision to exit the wine business following the Kenyan government’s 2007 increase in excise taxes on wine. In August 2007, Keroche introduced the vodka drink Viena Ice as a replacement for its fortified wines,... View Details

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September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
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Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the Kenyan government’s decision to increase excise taxes on wines in 2007. The tax increase would cause an average increase in price of 367% on Keroche’s fortified wines. Meanwhile, Keroche’s competitor EABL had effectively lobbied the government... View Details

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17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812099-PDF-ENG Greater Minneapolis—St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 412-074 Since the 1970s, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region (MSP) had outpaced... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
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Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2007
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income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

on income and deforestation, but diverged on chemicals and legality, leading to low uptake. The Alliance responded by launching a second sustainability standard called the CRAFT Code in 2018. Whereas certification rewards the use of best... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

Nation Israel enjoyed the highest concentration of technology start-ups in the world per capita. Despite regional instability, the country maintained strong economic growth and was considered a high-tech powerhouse. But not all Israelis benefited. Between the 1980s and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2015
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Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

disposable income and they are little bit scarred from the recession. They have taken the biggest lumps in terms of financial hits, which has led them to delay getting married, delay having babies, delay purchasing homes, etc. It is not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

percent of the 366 pairs of cross elasticities are sign asymmetric. Finally, we find that the occurrence of negatively signed cross elasticities can be partially explained by a set of hypothesized relationships between cross-price elasticities and brand share and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

than most observers expected," he notes. "However, much work remains in the struggle to transform the country's economy and its social structure. Its leaders' principal challenge now is to try to boost job opportunities and personal View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

07 Feb 2012
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three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also implies that optimal marginal tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2013
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the most likely to oppose its increase. Similarly, in the General Social Survey, those above poverty but below median income support redistribution significantly less than their background characteristics would predict. Publisher's link: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2011
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C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Publication:National Tax Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

online content to educate leaders and influence the managers on a global scale. Completing the self-sustaining cycle, income earned through key revenue streams—Executive Education, Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

of our Managing Diversity Speaker Series. For students, we are providing more content in the MBA Program around diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re creating pre-matriculation materials for incoming MBA students and will introduce a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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First Look: Jan. 12

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Keroche (D): Transforming the Core Business

Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase

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First Look: June 29, 2007

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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

September 20, 2016

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

First Look: December 19, 2006

Africa's Way

Sizing Up Social Impact

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

Promise & Perils