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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
cultural icons are built. Icons are the big winners of the culture share game. I conduct historical studies of brands like Volkswagen, Budweiser, Harley, Nike, and Mountain Dew. One of the key findings of my research is that all of these... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes." And the drug industry won't be the only field affected,... View Details
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
have built and to think about how we might use the case method, the field method, and online learning, as well as virtual hybrid in-person instruction most effectively in all our educational programs. There are skills and concepts that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Soldiers Field with a common bond to the School and to each other. To mark their collective achievement, here’s a look at six who represent the diversity and the varied ambitions of the Class of 2006. Sacasha Brown Immigrants’ daughter,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
more vigorously to assert who they are socially, psychically, and culturally,” remarks Koehn. “As a value proposition, luxury goods are very sensitive to timing and ego.” Adaptation, however, is a risky business. “You can’t rely on consumer View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
research model, we go out in the field to develop and test hypotheses about the managerial challenges identified and shared by the nine PELP districts, write cases and notes that are relevant to addressing... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
non-university partners are associated with the Institute. Innovative and multi-disciplinary research projects are being carried out in diverse fields such as environmental monitoring, human/robotic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11503 Synthesis by Microbes or Chemists? Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing in the Antibiotic Era Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:History and Technology 23, no. 3 (2009): 237-256 Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
kind of a highly anticipated moment. And as I always say, luckily for me, entrepreneurship came up in my top three matches as did STEM research. So STEM research is what I used to do. I used to be a scientist. And it also confirmed things... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
uncertain economic juncture in which a more historical perspective on economic theories and practices is acknowledged to be important. Our attempts to solve the present problems of the West will necessarily strengthen this trend. Q: How does your View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
cannibalization and endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Context, Agency, and Identity: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a blue-haired magician named LeBlanc across the Fields of Justice, hurling spells at the enemy’s minions. He narrates the chaotic game, often profanely, as he and his four teammates confront their opponents, another team of gamers. Each... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
opposite: in today’s world, capital is mobile. If American companies cannot employ the best talent in the United States, they have two choices: risk becoming less competitive in an intensively competitive world; or locate your capital investments and your View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
On September 12, 1980, the military launched a coup on the government in Turkey. For many executives, such instability is the worst nightmare of doing business in a developing country. But for Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Akin, usually on the outside looking in, suddenly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Professor of Business Administration and Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs Currency Why do startups fail? That question caught Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
$100 million a year, and that he wanted a speedy resolution. “Speedy” turned out to be the better part of a decade. For much of the 1970s, McArthur fielded an all-star team (including future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details
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Artist Support | Baker Library
for Morse in her research laboratory. Morse also advanced a program to provide Polaroid film and equipment to emerging and established artists whose work pushed the technical and aesthetic boundaries of the medium. This pioneering effort... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sitting next to him: Allen Carpé. Carpé was a World War I veteran and an accomplished research engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories whose exploits included the stormy first ascent of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. The two men... View Details