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- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
different markets with different customers and employ different business models than those traditionally successful in the established organization, they are typically undervalued by that organization. Managers refuse to provide the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, who cochaired the one-week immersion with Dennis Campbell, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration. “We started with a very basic question: ‘What should we really know about Southeast... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August 1999.... View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
on consumers, platform managers, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: What piqued your interest in this research? Chiara Farronato: I study market design choices of online platforms from eBay to Airbnb. Online platforms help match many... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
For the longest time nobody thought malls would be seriously hurt by ecommerce but now we have enough evidence to believe that the tsunami is actually coming. If you are not careful about thinking through the implications, you will be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
Driving Innovation
and develop a brand through mobile,” she observed. Reflecting recently on the skills required to lead innovation in any industry, Stewart talked about an inspirational note she received from the School’s legendary marketing Professor C.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
After nearly two decades in senior marketing and new venture positions, Ajay Mookerjee (DBA ’88) has returned to HBS as executive director of the new India Research Center. “I’ve had a pent-up desire to get involved in academic work, and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed, according to Amy J.C. Cuddy. Why Unqualified Candidates... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion: South Korea
Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about South Korea? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of... View Details
William T. Grant
Grant opened his department store operation in 1906 with a 25 cent-limit on all merchandise. Grant created this 25 cent niche market at a time when department store prices began at 50 cents and Kresge and... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
types: “My group always asked me to be the team leader, maybe because they didn’t want me to mess up what they were working on too much,” she laughs. From her time at HBS, Gehrke cites first-year Marketing... View Details
Steven J. Ross
Ross built a small family funeral parlor business into the world’s largest media company by the time of his death. In 1962, Ross took the funeral parlor business, Kinney, public at a market valuation of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
out that an everyday item has the power to act as both angel and devil every time we go to the grocery store. It lurks in car trunks and pantries all over the world, waiting to guide us simultaneously down paths of virtue and vice. What... View Details
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.This post is... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
states across the country and in some cases abroad (Canada, the Caribbean, Europe). Expansion to markets like California—which has five times the solar capacity of New Jersey—is potentially very lucrative.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
It draws from previous work by Urde (an associate professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management in Lund, Sweden), John Balmer (a marketing professor at Brunel University in London) and Greyser. In 2007, the three... View Details
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Kathleen Hebert
dealerships throughout Canada." As an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario, Kathleen "focused on marketing while developing my understanding of business fundamentals." She spent one summer as a View Details