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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
deteriorated and the financial crisis intensified. [ ] In March and April 2008, when [Abercrombie & Fitch] was making operational plans (for example, sourcing raw material and planning production), analysts were expecting its annual... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
men who view most profiles are least likely to message." Piskorski said. "These results show that people who expect rejection may simply refrain from writing, unless the site gives them an encouragement to do so." The... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
extent, they argue, life expectancy is determined mostly by where you reside. People in developed economies have a good shot at seeing 80, while life expectancy in some developing countries is half that age,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to pursue this goal has been... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
HBS assistant professor George Chacko, and HBS doctoral candidate Geoffrey Verter that looked at how risk management theory could be applied to understand a biotech firm's decision to buy call options on its own stock. In the final session on security and View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Kensington... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
is even more important as markets and buying processes change, and key levers for linking strategy and selling behaviors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49188 June 2015 ThinkSales It Doesn't Matter If... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blog Posts of 2018
We're wrapping up 2018 with a roundup of our ten most popular MBA Voices blogs this past year: In my second marketing class ever, only two weeks into my first semester of RC year, it happened. I was cold-called. As soon as the professor... View Details
- Web
Europe - Global Activities 2020
York Stock Exchange to drum up economic activity. It includes a country overview and lengthy summary of four centuries of history, including Serbia’s many decades as a dominant member of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. With... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
can be an inflationary influence if a committee feels pressured to raise its own top executive's pay in order to keep up with the competition. In addition, the sample companies favored the inclusion of stock options in CEO pay packages as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
to investors and other stakeholders during a financial crisis? How do I drive CSR through my organization? What's The Best Way To Report Nonfinancial Metrics? One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting Stakeholders expect... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Class of 2015
do. Stay connected to the thoughts, feelings, and ideas of your frontline employees. They are what is driving the organization. Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know”. Ask for help. Overcome your pride. Remain humble. It’s not about who is right, it’s about what is... View Details
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Launch Lab/Capstone 2 - Course Catalog
project-based experience that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected to design, build (and hopefully, launch) a new... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
Dozens of blue-chip advertisers have flocked to the site; according to Carpenter, iVillage may be the only private content company with more than $1 million a month in revenue. Although the company is not yet operating in the black, she View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
purpose than simply profit and increasing stock price, though they were all laser-focused on profitability and saw it as essential to achieving their larger purpose for the firm. They had a multi-stakeholder view of the firm as opposed as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information concerning the quality of the firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne