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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Focused Growth by Sanjay Khosla (AMP 155, 1998) and Mohanbir Sawhney (Portfolio) In the authors’ experience, too many companies expand too fast, taking on more products, markets, people, and acquisitions, and every quarter becomes a mad... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
higher average value. Using data on 165,410 projects posted on Kickstarter (2009–2015), we report findings consistent with the model's predictions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50821 Pay Now or Pay Later? The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals... View Details
- Web
Orit Gadiesh | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the Israeli Army. Orit took over as chairman of Bain in 1993 and has presided over a period of steady growth as well as the company’s expansion into new areas of consulting for technology startups and private equity firms. She has served... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
individual citizens are protected. Tracing governmental involvement in risk management to the early 19th century, Moss shows how government institutions have served to promote capitalism and economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- August 2024
- Case
Ashesi University: The Journey from Vision to Reality
By: Ranjay Gulati and Caroline de Lacvivier
In 1997, Patrick Awuah had a dream: to bring liberal arts education to Ghana. Amid the country’s declining economy and pervasive corruption problems, Awuah saw education as an opportunity to reverse its fortunes by investing in the next generation of African leaders.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Education Industry; Ghana
Gulati, Ranjay, and Caroline de Lacvivier. "Ashesi University: The Journey from Vision to Reality." Harvard Business School Case 425-032, August 2024.
- September 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
China "Unbalanced" (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for 711010. View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Working Papers Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study how external versus internal innovations promote economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
undermine ad-supported broadcasting stations, promulgated a series of regulations that retarded the growth of pay TV. As a result, early efforts to develop pay TV were unsuccessful. 5 The FCC's opposition to pay TV was consistent with a... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
first job experience in a restaurant. Restaurants have provided significant management and ownership opportunities for women and minorities. Restaurants are also big business. In 2023, US restaurant industry sales exceeded $1 trillion representing a $3 trillion View Details
- August 2005 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp.
By: Paul M. Healy
Compares two companies in the information capture software industry. Asks students to analyze and compare the performance of two companies (one in the United Kingdom and the other in the United States) from the perspective of a buy-side analyst reporting to the manager... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Management; Environmental Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Reporting; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Economic Growth; Fair Value Accounting; Information Industry; Computer Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Healy, Paul M. "DICOM Group plc and Captiva Software Corp." Harvard Business School Case 106-015, August 2005. (Revised April 2007.)
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
long-term returns, heavy early investments in growth were nevertheless economically rational. In most cases, reducing marketing outlays would have worsened a bad outcome, consistent with an inverted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
Jeffrey Madrick (MBA '71) has for many years been an award-winning economics and financial writer and editor in both print (Business Week, Money) and broadcast (NBC, ESPN) journalism. The author of, most recently, The End of Affluence... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
at 6,630 or so. The US economy is in its longest economic expansion in history, albeit at growth rates that look anemic compared to other times in history. So that certainly reflects a huge success story, at... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
state legislatures, and governorships to sign the pledge. Today, 222 members of the House, 46 senators, the President, more than 1,200 state legislators, and 6 governors all have signed. And that has changed the modern political process... View Details
Keywords: Government