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Health Care - Faculty & Research
and Jeremy Dann After its spin-off from one of the world's largest ultrasound makers, Sonosite attempts to popularize a new kind of handheld ultrasound units. Sonosite needs to decide if it should focus on new markets that will value the...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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- 04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones...
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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
towards those customers for whom the intervention will pay off, therefore increasing the value of customers while maximizing the return on the marketing efforts. Targeting effectively ultimately depends on the firm's ability to precisely...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
image of raw serenity it presented to the world; yet it took a concerted marketing effort that highlighted these elements in an attractive way to succeed. Prepare to invest money and time. Ten years ago,...
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- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel...
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Events - Business History
history including the interviews undertaken by the Creating Emerging Markets project can be used in research. Speakers included Susie Pak (St. John’s), Valeria Giacomin (Bocconi) and Sudev Sheth (Lauder Institute, University of...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
intelligent choices of where they think their markets are, and how much money to spend at an early stage in order to insure that the brand is available in those markets. #4: Disclosing inventions without a...
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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
indications to academics that small changes to the structure of microfinance contracts could have big consequences for how people spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods. “Ten years ago, India didn’t have...
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Past Issues - Alumni
generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS Portrait Project has captured a moment in...
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- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
guidelines. Companies at this stage often wait too long to hire people experts—both human resources managers and experienced recruiters who get the startup-to-scale scene. That's a big mistake. Investing money in these roles early will...
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by Julia Austin
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Senior Editor in Bain & Company’s global marketing team; and, prior to that, she was the Senior Vice President of Programs at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national not-for-profit focused on revitalizing America’s inner...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Engineering. Michael Cline (MBA 1985), Accretive Technology Partners J. Michael Cline is the founding Partner of Accretive Technology Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on building market leaders in the business process...
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Social Enterprise Track Winner Building a zero-fee money transfer platform for African migrants. Feather Health Kirsten Soong (MBA 2022) Daniel Navarro Mariya Rivkin (MBA 2022) Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up An AI driven digital...
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- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Art-of-Negotiation/Michael-Wheeler/9781451690446 August 2013 Current Directions in Psychological Science Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off By: Dunn, Elizabeth W.,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
and corporate temperament.— John Deighton In November 2000, shortly after Triarc sold Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes, I posed those questions to Triarc's top executives: chairman and majority owner Nelson Peltz, CEO Mike Weinstein, and View Details
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
follow-up experiment showed that participants in the ritual experience actually thought the chocolate bar was worth more money than those in the nonritual group—thus showing the retail marketing potential...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
knowingly: Money can’t buy you a happy ride. But looking at the statistics more closely reveals a more nuanced reality. The vehicles traded in are often baseline models of those prestige brands, favored more by aspirational buyers than...
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- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
they do it.” The color of money is mostly white The total share of assets managed by minority-owned firms in 2021 was 1.4 percent, according to Lerner, while minorities that year made up over 40 percent of the population. Lerner and...
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- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
the national microfinance markets of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru within the context of global microfinance. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307060 Foreign Direct Investment and South...
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Martha Lagace