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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
competitions. In 2007, Threadless was well on its way to selling more than a million and a half t-shirts. The success of Threadless has garnered significant media attention, the New York Times and USA's National Public Radio highlighting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
deep culture of direct sales to corporate customers, the company was slow to take advantage of a rapidly emerging consumer market—at least until founder Michael Dell returned... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
to Cummins. One way to analogize this is to imagine if a fraction of your mortgage interest deduction was disallowed, and that fraction reflected the number of days you spent... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
interest groups, for example, since friendships and connections are critically important to ease communication. These interest groups, he said, could work closely with the new HBS Latin America Research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
We've heard that Eskimos have 100 words for snow—a common way of expressing how language affects the way we see the world. Whether or not that particular example is true, cultural linguists have long theorized that the words a particular... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Abstract Agency theory suggests that the interests of opportunistic, self-interested agents conflict with those of principals. Stewardship theory suggests instead that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
variety of interesting issues, the limited circulation of the periodicals in which the works appeared and the necessarily technical nature of the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
other interested parties, and (3) would create subtle pressures that would raise the quality of preparation for, and involvement in, class discussion and other academic activities. The issue may be seen by... View Details
- September 2017
- Case
From 80 Thoreau to Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Sandra Bahous
After extensive planning, Ian Calhoun, (MBA 2010) who was also a chef trained in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu, and two co-founders launched 80 Thoreau, a “progressive fine dining” restaurant in Concord, Massachusetts, that became a local favorite as well as a special... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Boston; Cambridge
Goldberg, Lena G., and Sandra Bahous. "From 80 Thoreau to Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar (A)." Harvard Business School Case 318-065, September 2017.
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
introduced in 2011, Snapshot had low rates of adoption through 2012, but Progressive was redoubling its efforts in 2013 to educate consumers about the product's benefits, which included potential savings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
has been interested in this age-old question since graduate school. In order to answer it, he looked around for some kind of hard data that would allow him to make an apples-to-apples comparison View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
then they want to do something interesting and new with it. And so the work of a string quartet playing at this level becomes an entirely new creation, a new version of one... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
the dynamics of these types of markets, and to plan their business strategies accordingly." In this interview, Baldwin discusses the research and its implications for entrepreneurs who would like to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
This relationship between the tax preferences of institutional shareholders and firm payout policy could reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating to low-dividend paying-firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Fitbit’s suite of products allowed users to track the number of steps taken, calories burned, and heart rate activity. Fitbit devices were marketed to individual consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead in many other growing segments... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
lacked focus and was distracted by ventures outside its core exploration and production business. Further it argued that John Hess, CEO and son of the founder, was more interested in "maintaining a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino