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02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

adds-analysts could be required to state their buy/sell recommendation as they joined the call, for example. Or when the transcript was published, it could include the names of everyone who wanted to ask a question and didn't get into the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

markets. Delivering on the ultimate goal, reaching and successfully identifying each and every Indian resident, is a daunting prospect. "This project is hugely audacious and has never been achieved anywhere before," says Khanna. "There is nothing in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

challenges. In his latest role, as founder and president of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, he hopes to push the United States closer to what he considers an attainable national goal: a 30 percent... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

you over and right away you will be a star working for us." (Indeed, at the end of the 2009 season, Epstein had publicly stated that his team was "kind of in a bridge period." This was upsetting to Bostonians; their team... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

learned of another alleged relationship between Easterbrook and an employee. This time, its investigation turned up three additional workplace relationships and sexually explicit photos and videos. Plus, the board discovered that Easterbrook had granted restricted... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

said. Mele wondered about the implications for public policy if we can no longer think of the US population as a single public. The nation’s founding documents make an explicit assumption that there is a “public” (“We the people,” states... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

Web

Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

United States in 1938 and came to work at Polaroid, had received a patent for an "Apparatus Employing Polarizing Light for the Production of Stereoscopic Images." The Vectograph consisted of an image for the... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

development in the United States following her graduation from HBS. She fell in love with what was then Czechoslovakia during a visit to Central Europe and moved to Prague in 1991. "I worked in economic... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407071 Free the Grapes—Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry Harvard Business School Case 707-472 While wine tourism in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

Abstract—Although Indian tribes and the surrounding states were often bitter enemies throughout much of the history of the United States, recently tribes and states have been... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan, India. “We’ll soon have a dialysis... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

19 Dec 2008
News

WHBS, 820 on Your Dial

engineering. After an initial grant of $350 from the Student Association, the station paid its operating expenses through advertising. Besides providing business and technical experience, WHBS’s stated goals were to give students... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

Profile

Frank Spencer

United States, providing ministers and teachers of the church with pensions, medical benefits, life and disability insurance, financial assistance, and mid-career education. Asked to consider his impact, Spencer says, "I know I... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

Weiss. “My second thought was, what are you doing to your company?” Selling hardware to budget-crunched cities can difficult. Bigbelly’s early pitch was that by providing trash compacting in the units (solar powered to boot), additional... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

25 Jul 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

only 6 million units over the course of 3 years, compared with sales of 300 million PCs during the same period. "Apple's market share has always been lower than its consumer mind share," remarks Yoffie. Birth of The Cool In... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

toothpaste brand in the United States. During the interwar years, however, the brand suffered a precipitate decline and fell into oblivion. This article explores the rise and fall of the Pebeco brand. It shows the challenges faced by... View Details