Public Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2007
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Fall Reunions

the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

A recent BloombergBusinessweek magazine profile of Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) offers an in-depth look at the Facebook COO’s philosophy of sharing and how that vision guides the company—now the world’s fifth largest by market value. The... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Case Study: Golden Ticket

propositions to a new customer base. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Stay with the current target market and own it—don’t be distracted by other rabbits to chase. —Peter Anderson (MBA 1981) According to the California Department of Education,... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

says, we're all about building a world that is 'just, humane, and environmentally sustainable.' " On this particular day, the petite, dark-haired Scher is wearing a business suit -- "I'm hosting a public event later today," she explains... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2009
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Faculty Books

Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing in the possibility of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 Apr 2018
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym G.I.R.L.” In late 2016, Pitter-Armand, head of brand View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

from the book follow. An Affront to Public Morality The beauty business began modestly with the sale of products widely deemed an affront to public morality. Today, consumers around the world spend $330... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2008
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Designing Change

associate Emily Stecker dig deep into the rebranding of a company founded in 1934 that, by the 1980s, was rapidly losing market share and was often equated in the popular mind with anything generic or bland, despite its impressive catalog... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

programs include the Boston Public Market, the city’s first indoor, year-round market dedicated entirely to fresh, locally produced food, and Daily Table, a Dorchester market... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details

12 Dec 2017
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Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley

embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Spray Canon

value that is then built upon to create a market value—which is a separate type of validation,” says Riley, who credits Deitch’s time as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and his Art in the Streets exhibition with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story

In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise

achieve its social mission? "Social entrepreneurship is hard to define, but you know it when you see it," says Georgia Levenson Keohane (MBA 2000). There's a lot to see in it these days, as a kind of social entrepreneurship revolution has exploded across the nonprofit,... View Details

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

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

knowledge to other medical areas as well. As for public policy and business, the desire to reduce medical and health-care costs and the rewards to be reaped from the development of blockbuster therapies will further drive View Details