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- 13 May 2019
- News
Reading the Market
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Smith Breeden Prize for Best Paper in The Journal of Finance
- 09 May 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression?
- 31 Jan 2011
- News
2010 Distinguished Paper Award
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
“But what the Dick’s Sporting Goods case shows is that you can get it right, that you can have a positive outcome if you handle things well.” A calculated change Stack, whose father founded the company in the late 1940s in upstate New York, had grown increasingly...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- May 2022
- Case
Byte
By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Julia Kelley
In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company had come since launching its clear aligners just a little over two years earlier. Cohen and Johnson were both...
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- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some...
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by Avery Forman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2020
- News
The Skinny On The Ongoing Morningstar Ratings Squabble
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches
Coaches Jonathan Shepherd and Lauren Murphy have good news for you: there is no reason to let Covid-19 prevent you from building professional relationships. Networking has gone virtual and it can be just as impactful as in-person events....
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- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
the employment of “imposters,” a term, by the way, that was regarded as objectionable by many, most respondents implicitly rejected the notion. They pointed to the desirable qualities of imposters, people...
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by James Heskett
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
integrative bargaining. The debate over which type of negotiation strategy is better has been raging since the early 1980s, when two books came out focusing on opposite sides of the issue. In You Can Negotiate Anything, Herb Cohen made an...
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by Katie Johnston
- 05 Nov 2012
- News
What Wall Street Doesn't Understand About International Trade
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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Divestment or Engagement? New Research on Innovation in the Energy Sector
Why you should watch: A new and important NBER working paper, by Cohen, Gurun and Nguyen, takes a long hard look at innovation in the energy industry - and concludes that divestment campaigns targeted at fossil fuel companies may not just be ineffective....
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- March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Chewy.com (A)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries...
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Pet Food;
Pet Products;
Retail;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Operations;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Florida;
United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Matthew G. Preble. "Chewy.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-079, March 2018. (Revised September 2019.)