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- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Using the farm tractor...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
813-019 The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four-star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland, and the other in Milan, Italy. Having developed an extensive customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
English-origin peoples. Pickles were also important in Jewish cuisine. 54 Henry Heinz, 1880. The young businessman hoped to develop a larger market for his products. In the early 1870s, he saw an important opportunity to do this. Most existing canneries and condiment...
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by Nancy F. Koehn
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
technological advances in transportation, spatial characteristics of population distributions, and advances in farming technologies have led to a dominant economies-of-scale model of production, distribution, and retailing in fresh...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
management policy, which aimed at assuring a more secure environment for business. By the early twentieth century, however, the focus had shifted, from business to labor. As a result of industrialization, a great many workers had moved from the View Details
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by Laura Linard
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
presented by the pandemic on three continents: West Africa The region’s already fragile food ecosystems are buckling under the pandemic strain, with lockdowns keeping farm workers from their fields, supply chains disrupted, price hikes,...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
answer it, they looked not to high-tech modern prizes but to a comparatively unglamorous series of awards sponsored by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) back in the nineteenth century. For decades, explains Lerner, the RASE offered dozens of awards for...
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
external finance constraints is more pronounced for firms with higher degrees of informational opacity. Specifically, it is particularly strong for small firms, firms without debt ratings, firms that are not included in the S&P 500...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
Grobo had an unusual business model: it did not own land nor farm machinery. Instead, it created a network of partnered producers and suppliers. In other words, it outsourced as much as possible. CEO Gustavo Grobocopatel believed that Los...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a small set of choices to the rest of the organization. Starting from that definition, the paper studies what makes a decision "strategic" and what makes strategy important, considering...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
changing social hierarchy and Wedgwood's bringing what had been the trappings of a small minority, the aristocracy, to the growing middling classes at a moment when Britain was industrializing. From a branding standpoint, it is a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, from...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
change. According to this research, there are two primary factors that can cause institutions to change. First, institutional entrepreneurs, including individual actors or small groups of actors, are able to think and act outside the...
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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements....
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer brands, the firm had won numerous awards and garnered considerable attention within the advertising industry. In mid-2008, Big Spaceship...
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Martha Lagace