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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
revenue production are brought into the picture? The question is not hypothetical. In recent years, an ever increasing number of corporations have developed and adopted socially responsible behaviors, thereby hybridizing aspects of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal...
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- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Martin when a long-term strategic plan was put in place that called for the company to distribute its products through more than 100,000 locations of various kinds. The 25-fold increase in the number of distribution points called for more...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210020/ The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Harvard Business School Case 610-003 When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
made-in-Japan products and concepts to Godiva’s other markets. How could Chouchan keep the momentum and sustain Godiva Japan’s top-line and bottom-line growth going forward? Would he be able to keep the balance between aspirational and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707474 Tiger-Tread Harvard Business School Case 507-077 Describes an innovative product launch for which a marketing plan and a breakeven analysis are needed. To introduce...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
the productivity of busy professionals. For workplace settings devoid of perks, small non-cash rewards like access to valuable online classes or fitness programs can also contribute to well-being. Other non-cash rewards, such as notes of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
access it? Who gets to update it? What's the last day for bookings in each quarter? Is it the same all around the world? Do we have to do a credit check before scheduling every order for production? Who gets to certify approved vendors?...
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by Sara Grant
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
production requires massive capital investment," Esty says. And as natural resources are tapped out in developed countries, it becomes necessary to explore geographic areas that may not have an established track record in a...
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by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that complementary, interconnected products coexist and compete. These core principles are particularly important when applied to platforms, which have played a...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
base. However, Leung knew that the current growth trajectory would not lead them to the milestones needed to receive an additional round of financing. Leung must decide whether to continue pursuing user acquisition experiments, explore other View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic crash risk exposure of the collateral. We then apply Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition Two (MM) to split the cost of bearing this risk between the borrower and lender, resulting in a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
but they will inform the process by asking questions like "How do we keep suppliers from accessing the payroll data?" Just as companies keep an eye on their equipment and supplies by conducting scheduled audits and random spot...
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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level innovation, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
product portfolio. Maybe we are no longer going to produce assault weapons. Or maybe we will make a really interesting effort into producing smart weapons.” Unique ideas and insights are common on the podcast Harvard Business School After...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
pharmacists did, their cut-rate prices on popular brand-name packaged goods posed a major threat to mom-and-pop businesses like Gleason’s. So she and other traditional retailers began arguing that pineboards practiced predatory pricing, selling View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
Xerox, IBM, and Kodak. These industrial giants are trying to combine their industrial heritage with products, services, and business practices more closely associated with the new economy. Their basic product does not change—GM is still...
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