Location - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

transactional. I’ve never met anyone I work with in real life.” —Emily Anadu (MBA 2005) “It is actually possible to get meaningful work done remotely from multiple time zones and remote locations via video conference. I came in a big... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Peru. Later, Lewis decided to pursue a career in business, prompting him to apply to HBS. LEWIS: I was expecting Harvard University to be a more racially diverse campus, but because the location of HBS was isolated from the undergraduate... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

is the prestige and favorable reputation the Games will create for Atlanta and the Southeast," says Frazier. "It will influence people's thinking in terms of where they will choose to locate a business or make an investment." But with so... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

approach. But we were very successful there, and the board said, ‘Let’s take it worldwide.’” Ko has helped to do just that. Endeavor already has assisted nearly 300 entrepreneurs in nine countries. Ko is now charged with scoping out new View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

enact the scenario exercise themselves, devising their own scenarios, and deciding whether the LEGO Group should build a factory in an Asian location in the next five to seven years. In order to facilitate a discussion about the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10-percentage point... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a chain of around 70 stores located in over 20 states by 2013. Tindell believed TCS's employee-first culture and the seven Foundation Principles, which guided the company, were what differentiated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

612-033 Pret A Manger Pret A Manger, a London-based chain of sandwich shops, was known for its fast, genuine service and pre-packaged sandwiches prepared on-site daily. Instructed by its board to grow at 15% per year, Pret considered opening "twin" shops in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

driven by a customer's buying unit and its needs in a specific context, and made in relation to your perceived performance versus competition and substitutes." All the terms here count: Separable buying decision: A POB occurs when a seller View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

experience I have ever had. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in their responses to our questions, and fun! We traveled to the platforms by helicopter (the platforms are located in the Gulf of Mexico... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

And that was completely fair. In other words, I didn't resent the conclusion. I resented being in the chair, being screamed at. The reason why that's important is I remember leaving the company was located up the Hudson River, you know,... View Details

14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

universities were participating in its two-year teaching fellowships in more than 87 rural Chinese schools. The organization had grown from a founding team of three in a shoebox office to an 80-person operation headquartered in Beijing with teams in six other View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of R&D intensive firms were View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal tax rates don't rise nearly as much at high incomes as they did 30 years ago. This has important implications for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of a key omnichannel tactic; specifically, the introduction of showrooms (physical locations where... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small-at least at the outset-but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

coincided with the creation of the modern corporation, the mass market, and America's economic preeminence. Given this vast sweep of time, Koehn's narrations—in a series of original essays and timelines—serve as signposts to readers, helping them View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News