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  • 27 Oct 2010
  • News

Advertisers Gamble on World Series

    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Dr. Lurtz researches the history of agricultural economies in Latin America. She has a particular interest in export agriculture and attendant state- and locally-driven modernization projects. Her current work looks to the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the 19th... View Details
    Keywords: Coffee Production; Institutions; Property Rights; Labor History; Credit; Modernization; Development Economics; Rural Scope; Trade; Food; Agribusiness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Economies and Regions; Goods and Commodities; History; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
    • 25 Jul 2015
    • News

    Small businesses turning to online lenders

    • 03 Oct 2014
    • News

    Is the Apple Watch the Next Huge, Medium, or Mini Hit?

    • 16 Jun 2015
    • News

    Huge growth in China’s money funds poses risk

    • 16 Nov 2021
    • News

    Just Tell Everybody to Go Get a Covid Booster

    • 03 Dec 2014
    • News

    Study Finds Corporate Barriers, Not Family Pressures, Impact Female HBS Grads' Careers

    • 03 Nov 2016
    • Video

    The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab

      Nitin Nohria

      Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

      As Dean, building on... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
      • Research Summary

      A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

      • 24 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 24, 2006

      political conflict and individual and group biases occasioned by organizational differentiation. We categorize the sources of functional bias into intentional, driven by misalignment View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

      By: Shane Greenstein
      The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details
      Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Emerging Markets; Applications and Software; Books; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry
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        The Reference Wars: Encyclopedia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

        The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft's Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed... View Details

        • March 2002 (Revised May 2010)
        • Case

        Apple Stores

        This case reveals the genesis of the Apple Stores, a revolutionary retail concept launched by Ron Johnson, Apple Computer's senior vice president of retail. In January 2002, Apple Computer was at the eve of one of the most stunning commercial successes ever known in... View Details
        Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Marketing Channels; Consumer Behavior; Innovation and Invention; Computer Industry; Retail Industry
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        • August 2007 (Revised May 2009)
        • Case

        PlaNet Finance: Broad Scope in Microfinance

        By: Andrei Hagiu and Elena Corsi
        PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance institutions and management, and advisory... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Institutions; Microfinance; Growth Management; Networks; Non-Governmental Organizations; Service Industry; France
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        • August 2022 (Revised October 2022)
        • Case

        Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea?

        By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Pippa Tubman Armerding
        The setting for this case is the Sian Flowers, a company headquartered in Kitengela, Kenya that exports roses to predominantly Europe. Because cut flowers have a limited shelf life and consumers want them to retain their appearance for as long as possible, Sian or its... View Details
        Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chains; Sustainability; Sustainable Agriculture; Sustainability Reporting; Carbon Emissions; Supply Chain Management; Quality; Ship Transportation; Cost Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Kenya; Netherlands; Europe
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        • 04 Feb 2020
        • Video

        Hubert Danso

        Hubert Danso, Chair of the South-African based financial services group Africa Investor, explains how in West Africa in the 2010s government officials increasingly have a private sector background and are... View Details

          Alvin E. Roth

          Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

          Keywords: e-commerce industry; education industry; health care; information; internet; legal services
          • Clubs

          Central & Eastern European Club