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- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
community and who you are as a person” “Sponsoring this event was an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary treasure trove we have here, as well as the larger return to studying early capitalism in a global context,” says HBS...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download working paper:...
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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
declined or held flat, and return on invested capital (ROIC) has suffered dramatically. This decline in ROIC has been exacerbated by the significant growth in store square footage before the recession. Retail store count exploded through...
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- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in...
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- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
sponsor and protégé look good. “Sponsorship builds on traditional mentorship by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship,” explains Coffman, who works in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit at HBS. “It’s not...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
are much weaker. In individual-level regressions of engagement in category-spanning communication patterns, we find that women, mid- to high-level executives, and members of the executive management, sales and marketing functions are most...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
The real estate business has become increasingly institutionalized, securitized, and professionalized. I am fascinated with the works of the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and why capital markets do not...
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- July 2000 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Catalyst Medical Solutions
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Naomi Atkins
Faced with a drop in the NASDAQ, four eHealth entrepreneurs must decide between two distribution strategies for their new company's technology. The team, comprised of three full-time resident physicians and an MBA, has developed software to enable electronic...
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Product Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Distribution;
Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Applications and Software;
Partners and Partnerships;
Borrowing and Debt;
Information Technology Industry;
Service Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Naomi Atkins. "Catalyst Medical Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 601-014, July 2000. (Revised November 2001.)
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an...
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by Lane Lambert
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
U.S. market in the late 1960s, Firestone, along with most of the major American tire manufacturers, suffered costly setbacks and lost significant market share. By 1988, Firestone had been acquired by...
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- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
For the past six months, there has been a lot of handwringing about the market downturn. Most everyone has been advising entrepreneurs to marshal their capital, cut costs, and extend their runway. In essence, play defense. Many investors...
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by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Stan O’Neal
believer in the U.S. financial markets, O’Neal says that “despite some breaks in the system, the financial markets efficiently allocate capital to the best opportunities. This is the foundation of our...
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- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics of these sites and offers guidance for approaching these tantalizing markets The 'Luxury Prime': How...
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services to the alternative investment industry. Prior to Avid Partners, Joyner was a partner at Bowman Capital Management and worked for a number of years in the Marketing and Client Service group at View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on...
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- February 2023
- Supplement
Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A) Courseware
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
$12 million in sales. Over the next 30-plus years, Dahod built five additional companies, each capitalizing on his own insights into technology and what the future would require—be it high-speed switching (Sigma Networks), high-speed...
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Susan Young
- October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance
By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko
In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first...
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Fast Moving Consumer Goods;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Employment;
Human Capital;
Growth Management;
Brands and Branding;
Social Marketing;
Mission and Purpose;
Prejudice and Bias;
City;
Urban Scope;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Ohio;
United States
Chu, Michael, Brian Trelstad, and John Masko. "Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance." Harvard Business School Case 320-008, October 2019. (Revised August 2022.)