Publications

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

thus compromising immunization. One solution to this we saw during our visit was a vaccine refrigerator (below), which could be charged with the power generated by the solar rooftop panels. We also saw many diagnostic solutions, including... View Details

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 31

government for responding to disasters. We also find evidence suggesting that voters only respond to rainfall and government relief efforts during the year immediately preceding the election. In accordance with these electoral incentives, governments appear to be more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

Credit: pixelfit SUMMING UP How Will Digital Currencies Be Regulated? Blockchain technology has a brighter future than most digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, judging from responses to this month’s column. It’s also... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale social change is a pillar of the... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

December 2020
Case

XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira

XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the... View Details

Keywords: Financing Decisions; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Latin America; Brazil

May 2025
Case

IQanat: Empowering Rural Youth in Kazakhstan

By: Boris Groysberg and Maxim Pike Harrell

In June 2025, IQanat CEO Aliya Salikova considered scaling opportunities for the foundation, which provided educational opportunities for children from rural regions of Kazakhstan. Established by Kazakhstani businessman and philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Rural Scope; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Equality and Inequality; Education Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Tharian, for example, said "common sense is quite often related to wisdom (from accumulated experience vs. the knowledge that the younger generation acquires so rapidly through social networks)." Noting that Webster's Dictionary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

by offering input, asking questions, and responding to others based on their experience working together thus far. In the relaunch session, the team can discuss how business goals and strategy may have changed in light of the pandemic.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

June 2012
Article

Pricing to Create Shared Value

By: Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville

Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every transaction. Pricing is their weapon of choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that... View Details

Keywords: Pricing; Marketing Strategy; Price; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Value Creation; Fairness

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22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

PublicationsThe Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality Authors:Gino, F., M. Kouchaki, and A. Jami Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abstract Drawing on the embodied simulation account... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

program for youth living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This work was deeply gratifying, and it also helped me realize that in order to be most effective and drive scalable impact, I needed to build strategic, analytical, and leadership skills. This need motivated a... View Details

March 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Amperity: First-Party Data at a Crossroads

By: Elie Ofek, Hema Yoganarasimhan and Alexis Lefort

In the summer of 2023, Amperity management was facing a critical decision on its future direction. Given the dramatic changes occurring within the digital advertising ecosystem, as concerns over consumer privacy placed limits on the ability to engage in third-party... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Digital Marketing; Price; Product; Business or Company Management; Advertising Industry