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- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge....
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by John Quelch
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Short-Termism and Capital Flows
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
During 2007–2016, S&P 500 firms distributed to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account...
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Short-termism;
Quarterly Capitalism;
Share Buybacks;
Open Market Repurchases;
Dividends;
Equity Issuances;
Seasoned Equity Offerings;
Equity Compensastion;
Acquisitions;
Payout Policy;
Capital Flows;
Capital Distribution;
Working Capital;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Acquisition
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism and Capital Flows." Review of Corporate Finance Studies 8, no. 1 (March 2019): 207–233.
- December 2018 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (A)
By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins and provides a detailed overview of...
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Iyzico;
Fundraising;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Management;
Information Technology;
Growth Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Negotiation Offer;
Decision Making;
Turkey
Di Maggio, Marco, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (A)." Harvard Business School Case 219-064, December 2018. (Revised March 2019.)
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
and negotiate deals. If a tender or bid goes through and both parties sign a contract and deliver the material, they pay Open Mineral a fee per ton of raw material. Chernilovskiy, who is the company’s COO, and Eykher, who is CEO, say that...
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Nicole Torres
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
Over the past several months I have engaged with organizations across East Asia regarding job opportunities for MBA candidates. While economic growth has slowed in the region, the job market is still good overall for MBA graduates and...
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- December 2018
- Supplement
iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (B)
By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in July 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the pros and cons of the different term sheets the company has received for its Series C round. The case then informs the reader...
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Iyzico;
Fundraising;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Negotiation Offer;
Decision Choices and Conditions
Di Maggio, Marco, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 219-065, December 2018.
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
Knowledge about a market is no cinch to acquire, of course. And though information may have been painstakingly collected, analyzed, and presented by market researchers, it faces an even greater hurdle when...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
not, the consumer won't repurchase four years from now. Build enthusiasm. Good marketers know the power of word-of-mouth recommendations. In the era of social media, better organization (the old ground war)...
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by John A. Quelch
- 21 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
- 30 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems
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by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
which it has opened up to the outside world—shapes those markets, and companies must consider those factors, too. The five contexts framework places a superstructure of key markets on a base of...
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- June 2020
- Article
U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles
By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina
Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle,...
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Global Business Cycle;
Monetary Policy;
Reaching For Yield;
Money;
Policy;
Credit;
Emerging Markets
Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina. "U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles." Journal of Monetary Economics 112 (June 2020): 57–76.
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
strategies to the unique contexts of emerging markets—and instill in their organizations an organizational openness to experiments. Zain's One Network and Microsoft's FonePlus are only two examples of successful emerging View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- November 2021
- Article
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary Drink Buying
By: Grant E. Donnelly, Paige Guge, Ryan Howell and Leslie John
Many governments have introduced sugary drink excise taxes to reduce purchasing and consumption of such drinks; however, they do not typically stipulate how such taxes should be communicated at point-of-purchase. Historical, field, and experimental data entailing over...
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Decision-making;
Open Data;
Open Materials;
Preregistered;
Health;
Policy;
Taxation;
Consumer Behavior;
Decision Making
Donnelly, Grant E., Paige Guge, Ryan Howell, and Leslie John. "A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary Drink Buying." Psychological Science 32, no. 11 (November 2021): 1830–1841.
- May 2015 (Revised September 2015)
- Case
Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company, Royal Philips ("Philips"), announced its HealthSuite Digital Platform to house healthcare data and enable applications used by physicians and patients. Philips had strong equity in the healthcare...
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Health;
Healthcare;
Digital;
Platform;
Ecosystem;
Health Care and Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Product Development;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Health Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Netherlands;
United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform." Harvard Business School Case 515-052, May 2015. (Revised September 2015.)
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
talented young people and encourage them to apply to HBS. Under the leadership of HBS senior associate dean Thomas Piper, the East-West opening expanded in the early 1990s. Vlachoutsicos, in collaboration with HBS professor Francis...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
opening a hospital. “I didn’t want to get into real estate,” he says. “I wanted to get into a service business.” Perhaps even more appealingly, dentistry did not depend on referrals from other doctors, which turned Indian medicine into “a...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
traded on an open market. Quite the contrary, U.S. law ensures that sufficient protection is in place so that this could never happen. However, the ability to legally acquire a cadaver and reimburse a supplier for procuring costs is an...
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- 01 Jul 2021
- News