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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to encourage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
broad or focused managers, to leverage, to the timing of investment, and finally, to the compensation paid to both external managers and internal staff. Purchase this note: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209152-PDF-ENG Moods of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
need to get new customers and/or get more orders from our current customers. I have to come up with a marketing plan, then implement the ideas that the team finds agreeable.” So far, Rahil has pursued options such as a referral program, a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rohan Kekre
and corporate finance (particularly financial intermediation). I’m currently engaged in research on both fronts: the macroeconomic consequences of heterogeneity in labor market institutions across the Eurozone, and the causes and... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible
Timing is everything. And for a little girl with a strong independent streak, being born in 1953 was pretty much perfect. Princeton was just going co-ed as I was starting college, and I was lucky enough to be one of their first female... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
explores new wrinkles in this age-old formula — and how government policy may affect entrepreneurship. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5865.html. Marketing Your Way through a Recession In a recession, consumers become value-oriented,... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Being Uncomfortable at HBS
novelty. If curiosity killed the cat. Then, lucky I am not a cat. Therefore, it isn’t a surprise that I enjoyed my time as a consultant, because it enabled me to jump from helping to develop a strategy for a large health system to... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Claire Friedman...
resident, it was a big transition to move out west, but once I learned how to drive, it was smooth sailing. I spent some time at Warner Bros., working on strategy projects for the studio including a film partnership in China, and at FX... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
amounts of internal energy go to 'making the quarter return' rather than serving the customer and building the future. Why did quarter returns develop in the first place?" Bill Hubbell added, "The market has many mechanisms to... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016
transforming rapidly. The work was sure to be interesting." But Cauvery wasn't satisfied with the work. "With 400,000 people, it was just too big. It took too long to see the fruits of my work." More importantly, Cauvery's View Details
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
finance and macroeconomics are made in the face of uncertainty and beliefs play a central role. In the past few years, I have studied how non-financial firms in the U.S. exploit capital market frictions and act as arbitrageurs across... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
received from early adopters. My work started as an internship position in business development, where I began developing new collateral materials to boost our marketing and selling activities. However, over time, the CEO, an HBS alumnus,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the School and their fellow alumni. I wanted to take a moment to update you on the work of the Alumni Board, a group drawn from the greater pool of HBS volunteers who represent the interests of the alumni body and those of the School. As you know, the Board meets here... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
or chemistry in the camp library. In the family camp, some women were even allowed to keep servants. “They had a good time relative to what was happening in other geographies,” says Giacomin. “Eventually, their major problem was boredom.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
idea of “paying themselves first” by precommitting a portion of their refund to savings. U.S. savings bonds hold particular appeal among low- and middle-income families. Savings rates at tax-preparation sites that offer bonds are 8.5 View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details