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01 Oct 1997
News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

to any business school grad: setting up accounting systems, developing marketing strategies, monitoring performance, analyzing competition, creating business plans and feasibility studies, pricing, developing and evaluating project... View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

each knew, not just intuitively, but strategically—and after a time, financially and organizationally—that they had to create a sustainable market for their offerings. If Wedgwood could parachute forward into our time, or if we could go... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization

institutions, government institutions, labor unions, etc. Add other relevant criteria, e.g. geography. Orbis - Profiles of international public and private companies and foundations. From the main page, select the... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2014
News

Cutting Edge

"Marketing aside, we could have never renovated the brand without these essential steps," Silk says. But marketing didn't hurt. Silk, a former professional musician who at one time had considered becoming a rabbi, brought back Hebrew... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

“Investors in those funds benefit from that process, as they tend to buy the company at a discount from the market and sell it back later to the market for a premium once the company has been turned around.”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

most affected by proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership, lost value on that day. The value drop was 55 basis points for a 10 percentage point change in activist institution ownership. These... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2014
News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

So if fewer and fewer people are buying insurance policies, what are insurers going to do with their business? They should look at this as a changing market and realize that if they get in now, they could have a commanding mindshare of... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Feb 2013
News

Boston-area Nonprofits Receive $2.25 Million in MacArthur Grants

Keywords: Professor David Moss; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2019
News

Cure All

How would you advise them? Leemore Dafny: What I’d say is something that holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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The Evolution of Financial Services in the United States

By: Robin Greenwood, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein

This article surveys the literature on the historical growth and transformation of the U.S. financial sector. The sector expanded rapidly between 1980 until 2006, when its contribution to GDP rose from 4.8% to 7.6%. After the Global Financial Crisis, the size of the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Growth and Development; Economic Sectors

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

You cite this decline as a root cause of widespread uneasiness among Americans about their future. What's gone wrong? One major structural change is that traditional mass production for a huge domestic market - the unique situation that... View Details

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long history of investing in research... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

to build capabilities that would be hard to replicate. Let’s build a plan here—not just to grow but to develop some long-term defensibility. Some record profits would be music to investors’ ears. —Jeffrey Glass (MBA 1994) Grow market... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2005
News

Fixer Upper

almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in housing prices as... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

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