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01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week. He is in Berlin regularly and in... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Opportunity Abounds

the US, with our global partners on a pressing business issue. The project concludes with a 10-day trip to work in the FIELD with our partners, formally ending with a business recommendation from the HBS team. I traveled to New Delhi to... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

goggles. “You need to be able to see a wall, and react, before you hit it,” he explains. Because DRL provides broadcast-ready content to networks, it helps that Horbaczewski has a background in film production and special effects. “Filming something the size of a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

picture on a napkin of a hotel kiosk where travelers could get and send e-mail, she was able to help put together a team and raise money for ATCOM/INFO, which became the premier provider of software (Iport) for high-speed, remotely... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

forces of natural selection and enable us to take control of our genes. We will be able to alter our own species and many others—a good thing, the authors suggest, given that our eventual survival will require space travel and... View Details

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India - Industry specific research

site of the World Health Organization office in India, includes information on diseases and agency activities. Information Technology View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

high-tech giant Rakuten’s globalization process for five straight years following an English mandate for thousands of its Japanese employees. “We traveled to eight countries with tremendous assistance from the HBS global research... View Details

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

supporting the growth of climate investing is stacking up: On December 5th, the International Energy Agency revised its renewable power forecast markedly. The agency now sees renewables surpassing coal as... View Details

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

cleanup—to both learn and grow as human beings,” he recalls. “But my first concern was how to keep everyone safe from radiation poisoning.” With help from MIT Media Lab researchers, who devised a car-mounted Geiger counter to chart a safe zone where the group could... View Details

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

psychology and ethical decision making. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/caruso_gino_cognition_2011.pdf The Design of Online Advertising Markets Author: Benjamin G. Edelman Publication: In The Handbook... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

commerce and consumption.” 16 Recognizing his reputation as an extraordinary portraitist and the prestige his name could lend to commercial work, the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency hired Steichen in 1923, the same year he became... View Details

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Tawanda Sibanda

‘Mukela,’ a Zula word that means ‘welcome,’” he explains. “It’s an online travel accommodations site – think of it as a Hotels.com focused exclusively on Africa.” Tawanda and his colleagues entered Mukela in... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources

Business Review is available free online, and HBS Working Knowledge, a free weekly online business management publication, is e-mailed to alumni who sign up. We also have access to the extensive resources and services of Baker Library.... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and Spotify, and View Details