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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition...
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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the opposite of window...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of...
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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
relationship is important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
increases sharply during peaks of private equity cycles. Deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than other deals when the parent bank is part of the lending syndicate, especially during market...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
of Milwaukee, I witnessed the impact of a rapidly changing economy on my neighbors’ lives. Every day on the way to school, I rode past shuttered manufacturing plants that once employed tens of thousands of our residents. Despite living in a divided city, my View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are now taking View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
things. First and foremost is speed. Everyone’s gotten used to, with each new G, you introduce faster speeds, and then we figure out really interesting ways of taking advantage of that. But 5G is actually going to do two new things, which...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
source of competitive advantage for American employers, but that it was declining fast. And it was just stark in the data. And I naively asked, “Who’s studying this?” And the answer was, “Nobody.” And I said, ”Why?” And they said, ”Well,...
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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
significant investment in bio-similars as a way to differentiate itself from its generic drug industry peers, has to negotiate with its parent company and the innovative pharma division on how best to commercialize its bio-similar...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
20th century, who your parents were, whom you knew, and the community you belonged to were key factors. For business leaders, being part of the right society might also mean being either Episcopalian or Presbyterian. Regardless of the...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
itself yields several questions: Is there a view that negotiation is a collaborative process aimed at mutual advantage or a competitive battle? Should one focus on specific issues early on or is there a lengthy process of relationship...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
20 million doses by the end of the year. One advantage to the Moderna vaccine is that it does not need ultra-cold storage, making it easier to transport and store. To read more about Moderna and Bancel, visit the HBS Alumni Stories page....
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to debt. Using financing terms and ex-post performance, we show that overall banks do not...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
"intellectual property factory" in La Jolla, California in order to take advantage of the free(r) flow of talent. I'm surprised that more Massachusetts companies haven't opened offices just over the border in Connecticut, which...
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by Martha Lagace