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- June 2019
- Case
Rachael Ray: Cooking Up a Brand
By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams and Kerry Herman
Rachael Ray built a remarkable career and brand, first as a cooking personality, and then as a lifestyle maven. This case explores her early career, decisions taken along the way, and the successes she achieved in publishing, television and as a spokesperson. As her...
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Keywords:
Personal Development and Career;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Brands and Branding;
Entrepreneurship
Groysberg, Boris, Robin Abrahams, and Kerry Herman. "Rachael Ray: Cooking Up a Brand." Harvard Business School Case 419-022, June 2019.
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
sustainability manager with a company I can align my values with. This class seemed like the perfect opportunity to give me the right tools to learn more about this field." Desirée KaplanWriter at Green Matters Identify strategic...
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- July 2002 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
QuickMedx Inc.
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Jonathan P Groberg
QuickMedx has created a chain of small kiosks, located in drugstores and shopping malls in the Minneapolis area, that cater to patients with a limited range of very simple primary care conditions. Service is rapid and cheap and patients wait only a few minutes to be...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Decision Making;
Disruptive Innovation;
Expansion;
Service Delivery;
Business Processes;
Design;
Management;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Jonathan P Groberg. "QuickMedx Inc." Harvard Business School Case 603-049, July 2002. (Revised April 2003.)
- September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
- Supplement
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,...
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Keywords:
Keroche;
Alcohol;
Alcoholic Beverages;
Alcoholic Drinks;
Beverages;
Drinks;
Wine Industry;
Wine;
Fortified Wine;
Viena;
Viena Ice;
Beer;
Beer Market;
Premium Beer;
Manufacturing;
Summit Lager;
Business Ventures;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Small Business;
Family Business;
Crime and Corruption;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Income;
Demographics;
Geographic Scope;
Geographic Location;
Goods and Commodities;
Government Legislation;
Growth and Development;
Business History;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Laws and Statutes;
Lawfulness;
Goals and Objectives;
Consumer Behavior;
Market Entry and Exit;
Problems and Challenges;
Safety;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Strategy;
Competition;
Manufacturing Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Kenya;
Nairobi;
Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "Keroche (D): Transforming the Core Business." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-393, September 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
- September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann Leamon
In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a loan to Avid, a small but promising venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Crisis;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
Health Industry
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and Ann Leamon. "Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners." Harvard Business School Case 810-054, September 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
- February 2010 (Revised June 2014)
- Supplement
CityCenter (C): Turmoil and Choices
By: John D. Macomber
"CityCenter (C)" follows the (A) and (B) cases chronologically. The (C) case explores the decisions facing MGM MIRAGE following a lawsuit by partner Dubai World and suspension of Dubai World's cash contributions to the project in early 2009. Issues include the...
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Keywords:
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Private Equity;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Decisions;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict and Resolution;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Nevada
Macomber, John D. "CityCenter (C): Turmoil and Choices." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-066, February 2010. (Revised June 2014.)
- Web
Research Areas - Doctoral
international ventures; the environments in which entrepreneurs make decisions; and social entrepreneurship. 4. Performance Measurement and Outcomes scholars study drivers and effectiveness of performance measurement and management...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward? In this article, I present evidence suggesting that while firms have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
- Working Paper
Salience
By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention “bottom up” due to their high contrast with surroundings, their surprising nature relative to recalled experiences, or their...
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Keywords:
Salience;
Economic Behavior;
Bottom Up Attention;
Microeconomics;
Decision Making;
Behavior
Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer. "Salience." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29274, September 2021.
- 25 Jan 2022
- News
Baseball’s Next Competitive Advantage Isn’t Analytics. It’s Culture.
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Giving Critical Feedback Is Even Harder Remotely
- 22 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Master the One-on-One Meeting
But how we treat them as individuals can determine the way their DNA will impact the fabric of your organization. What are you doing, as their manager, to make sure they are satisfied and making the best...
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by Julia B. Austin
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
support people with obesity. In December 2022, knownwell raised a $4.5m seed round, and in the spring of 2023, opened its first weight-inclusive clinic in the Boston area to glowing and touching patient reviews. Looking to the future, Boyarsky Pratt had to View Details
- February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board
By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Decisions;
Private Equity;
Design;
Housing;
Infrastructure;
Projects;
Real Estate Industry;
West Bengal
Macomber, John D., and Viraal Balsari. "Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board." Harvard Business School Case 210-062, February 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional...
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key financial decisions entrepreneurs must make in the early stages of a startup...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes
By: Katherine L Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new type of...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
Outcome or Result;
Welfare
Milkman, Katherine L., Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman. "Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-147, June 2009. (Revised September 2009, December 2009.)
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Help - Alumni
Mid-Officer Certificate (MOC) PhD in Decision Sciences (PhDDS) Program for Global Leadership (PGL) Program for Management Development (PMD) Programs for Health System Management (PHSM) Senior Executive Program China plus completion of...
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- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
for marketers is to make such interventions short, memorable, and motivational—as when Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, successfully launched a viral ad campaign on railway safety called “Dumb ways to die.” 4. Get concrete. People...
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