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- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Operational Transparency
- 25 Apr 2012
- News
Harvard Business School Holds 16th Annual Business Plan Contest
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to acquire broadcast stations in...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
net-zero emissions by 2040. In the interim, we are targeting absolute GHG reductions of more than 40 percent by 2030. From the way we source our crops to the energy we use in creating and distributing our products, we are taking...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
vans because back in the 1960s and ’70s—and still now—there was no way to reach the consumer who shopped at mom-and-pop stores. Today their distribution networks are formidable barriers to entry for most competitors in their segments....
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
and the Harvard Kennedy School. The two-day event on the HBS campus drew 1,500 attendees from across the country for panels, workshops, a career fair, and the Pitch for Change business plan competition, where social entrepreneurs vie for View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with market fit. Patel identified his...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these refund dollars, which average...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course of two years, the team expanded...
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- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public...
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- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
to check on them, posting videos, delivering groceries, dropping off yarn for knitters who are making blankets to give to new babies in the community. We've also been able to provide some direct cash assistance grants, mostly to help...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
exceed our targeted cash from operations.” This year, alumni will receive details of the School’s financial performance in an expanded, annual report format, which will offer a better sense of how HBS financial resources — including gifts...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
as well as a positive brand image, good relationships with key customers, and some $250 million cash (and no debt). "For me," Charron notes, "it was simply a question of how to deploy those assets and how to take advantage of the...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
his childhood in Israel. "I said, 'Is that still around?'" The next day, Birnbaum joined Cohen for a look under the hood. It wasn't pretty: There was no distribution strategy, no real consumer approach, and no optimism among the staff....
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of finance options; and a View Details