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- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
popular, in a way no one might have predicted. "It just depends on what behavior you're changing," said Michael Schreck (HBS MBA '96), principal of the venture firm General Catalyst, which attempts to fund potential disrupters.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
Since its earliest days, HBS has committed to educating students with the highest potential for leadership, regardless of their financial circumstances. As a result, the School is able to attract and enroll exceptional women and men from... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
examined the relationships between inventory, gross profit dollars, and gross margin return on inventory. We find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to gross margin return on inventory. This supports a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big screen, and for that reason it’s important to have many View Details
- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
very practical test. "We had a thousand participants and sixty panelists," she says. "Success meant anticipating potential downfalls and planning around them. For her summer internship, Rakhi will accept a consultancy... View Details
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Mengwen Zhao
team, but to inspire others. The most important part of leadership work is to bring out the highest potential in others." This summer, Mengwen will return to China as a consultant with McKinsey. "I want to explore all the time.... View Details
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Fangfang Wang
R.O.I. It’s really about opening you up to diverse intellectual challenges. The personal development here is way more important than the potential economic advancement or return.” View Details
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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
banking and financial advisory services for corporations, the government, and private individuals, and consistently showed foresight in its ability to recognize the potential of emerging industries, from retail to aviation to high tech.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
percentage of revenues as well. Potential employees can post their résumé and use the Mom Corps job bank at no charge; they can also pay a fee to have their résumé revamped. The challenge of maintaining Mom Corps’ sense of identity and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
leave. It goes back to this sense of reliance on others during wartime and adversity that can unlock the human potential for groups.” EXCERPT “There isn’t anything secret about presenting. The necessary skills are simple, the keys to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
will soon change. "There's huge potential for us on the Internet," she says. "Now that we're on Shoes on the Net, for example, our cybercommerce has jumped dramatically. Before long, I'm not going be worrying about how I'm going to sell... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Relationships as Valuable Assets, by Robert C. Blattberg, Gary Getz, and Jacquelyn S. Thomas, is the first book to provide a unifying framework and practical tools for measuring customer value — the potential profitability of each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
habits of quantitative thinking, and deal effectively with an organization's "quants." What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan (Harvard Business Review Press) Building a... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
are not proactively evaluating potential gaps in their knowledge or addressing their shortcomings.” In addition, Groysberg and Cheng’s survey found that age can be a factor in keeping up with new technology. Among older directors, 39... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global Financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
pondered the impact of fake news on democracy, the potential for government regulation of the internet, and the future of business models that support traditional media such as newspapers. The event was co-sponsored by the Tow Center for... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
screenwriters, their most immediate problem is how to get the access, how to get their ideas heard” “From the buyer’s point of view, evaluating an idea not only involves physical costs and the opportunity cost of time,” Luo says. Having firsthand knowledge of an idea... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
a $44,000 bid. Chalk up another win for companies that are willing to be a little playful with their brands, a potentially dangerous tactic that can easily backfire but that creates big wins with consumers if done well. Social media... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Gino, F., and C. Mogilner Abstract—Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne