Crisis Response Plans - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

fact, in recent years, Blum and his team were responsible for more such outsized successes than any other producer, especially in the horror genre. The company’s approach to moviemaking is quite different from that of the major studios:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

and 75% rise in licensing revenues from multinationals. Second, using additional information on each scientist in these labs, we examine how their research productivity changed in response to different managers. Notably, we find that the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

discusses its relationship to mathematics and laws. It explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s... View Details

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

range and retailers who serve these categories are among the walking dead. Q: The book outlines three strategies for retailers to consider as responses to the online threat. What are those strategies? Alvarez: One strategy is what we call... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

alumni community. “I really liked being connected to other alumni, and Community Partners has helped me maintain a strong connection to HBS,” she says. “It was a pretty positive experience. I definitely plan to stay involved.” Now serving... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

Harvard College because I planned to return home to run the family business, a small chain of seed and feed operations in the Red River Valley, in North Dakota and Minnesota. But John Black, who taught agricultural economics at Harvard,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

follow. “The Long and Winding Road” In 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left Fairchild Semiconductor, where Andy Grove was employed as assistant head of R&D, to start their own company. Grove’s response when Moore told him the news?... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

campaigns and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a large kettle of... View Details

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