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- February 2010
- Supplement
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis (CW)
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This Excel worksheet contains sample problems, prebuilt Excel models to run market sizing and market share analyses, and charts and graphs which help visualize the results. It is designed to accompany Marketing Analysis Tookit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis....
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- November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
Price-Quantity Determination
Examines the important economic considerations affecting a firm's price-quantity decision for a product. Begins with a discussion of the appropriate decision criterion. Next, it motivates the concept of a demand curve for a product and defines demand elasticity....
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Dhebar, Anirudh S. "Price-Quantity Determination." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-093, November 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- January 2007 (Revised December 2007)
- Case
PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Nava Ashraf and Marie Bell
Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social marketer with impressive achievements in the field of family planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria prevention must determine what to do about their slow-to-take-off clean water initiative....
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Keywords:
Investment Funds;
Health Care and Treatment;
Social Marketing;
Natural Environment;
Social Enterprise;
Business Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Nava Ashraf, and Marie Bell. "PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water." Harvard Business School Case 507-052, January 2007. (Revised December 2007.) (Request a courtesy copy.)
- January 1999
- Case
Ciba Specialty Chemicals
Based on extensive interviews, this case discusses the environmental policies of a successful firm in the specialty chemicals business. Executives at Ciba have differentiated products along environmental lines and have used environmental scrutiny as a tool for cutting...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Business or Company Management;
Cost Management;
Risk Management;
Business Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Chemical Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Ciba Specialty Chemicals." Harvard Business School Case 799-086, January 1999.
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Digital Transformation’s Emerging Effect on Customer Expectations
- 05 Feb 2018
- News
Why CEOs are becoming activists
- 10 Feb 2012
- News
World's Best B-School Professors: Clayton Christensen
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance...
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- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Microsoft Server & Tools
By: Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged product lines led by the Windows Server operating system. Even as the current packaged business was performing exceptionally well,...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Computing;
Enterprise Computing;
Servers;
Cloud Computing;
Microsoft;
Technology Evolution;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Alain Serels. "Microsoft Server & Tools." Harvard Business School Case 613-031, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- December 1990
- Case
Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s
By: Nitin Nohria
Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Organizational Culture;
Business Organization;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry
Nohria, Nitin. "Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 491-066, December 1990.
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
What Building a “Jeopardy!” Robot Taught IBM About Innovation
- 08 Sep 2016
- Video
Monitoring global supply chains
- December 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Olam: On a New Course
By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Mary Shelman
From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun investing in farms and in the production...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Leadership;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Corporate Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Environmental Sustainability;
Expansion;
Competitive Advantage;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Nigeria
Bell, David E., Forest Reinhardt, and Mary Shelman. "Olam: On a New Course." Harvard Business School Case 513-044, December 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- 2018
- Chapter
Behavioral Household Finance
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This chapter provides an overview of household finance. The first part summarizes key facts regarding household financial behavior, emphasizing empirical regularities that are inconsistent with the standard classical economic model and discussing extensions of the...
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Keywords:
Personal Finance;
Global Range;
Household;
Behavior;
Strategy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Product Design;
Welfare
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Behavioral Household Finance." In Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 1, edited by B. Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, 177–276. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2018.
- Research Summary
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)
By: Laura Alfaro
The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the
existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country
generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel
mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in
enabling...
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- September 2023
- Case
Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner
This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing...
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Sucher, Sandra J., Fares Khrais, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 324-022, September 2023.
- September 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy
By: Mark R. Kramer and Sarah Mehta
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues of $12.5 billion. For several years, the company had pursued developing products that created shared value, defined as...
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Keywords:
Shared Value;
Creating Shared Value;
Odon Device;
Medical Technology;
Value Creation;
Values and Beliefs;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Testing and Trials;
Emerging Markets;
Social Issues;
Competitive Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Middle East
Kramer, Mark R., and Sarah Mehta. "Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 718-406, September 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- July 2015
- Case
Uncharted Play (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is...
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Keywords:
Early Stage;
Female Protagonist;
Value Proposition;
Team Building;
Founders' Agreements;
Start-up;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Sports;
United States;
North America;
Nigeria;
Africa
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ali Huberlie. "Uncharted Play (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-018, July 2015.
- December 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Management Style;
Product Development;
Managerial Roles;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Canada