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Henry P. Crowell
Whereas traditional producers marketed oatmeal to wholesalers, Crowell packaged and marketed his brand of oatmeal, Quaker Oats, nation-wide as a breakfast cereal, a unique product at the time. Crowell... View Details
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Compustat | Baker Library
Compustat Comprehensive financial databases by Standard & Poor's, containing price data for publicly traded companies, market information on important banks in the United States, and a wide range of technical data. Read More Compustat... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Faculty Research Online
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System? Corporations have turned tax obligations into profit centers, bringing into question the whole rationale for business taxes. Associate Professor Mihir Desai discusses problems with the modern... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
Benson P. ("Ben") Shapiro, the School's former Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, has left full-time teaching at HBS to concentrate on research, writing, public speaking, and consulting. A well-known authority on marketing strategy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record
robo-advisor fund as a gateway to the firm’s other services. Where they are today: Alpha Architect is now managing about $700 million in assets—around three times what they had in 2015. New challenges: How do you stand out in a crowded... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?
if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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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
- 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
- August 2009
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The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (CW)
By: Willy C. Shih
When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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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
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard Business School View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
out many consumers with older iPhones or Android models. "Apple might be hamstrung by an incompatibility issue that the company intentionally introduced," Edelman says. Shih agrees that selling technology is tricky in a market... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
four times over the last hundred years they've been in existence." But he said they still offer customers a variety that many value. "It's hard to find a store today in the country where you can go in and buy multiple brands... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
market “slack” and the absence of any significant increase in wage pressures, suggesting that inflation will remain well contained for the near term. The Fed spends a good deal of time watching inflation... View Details
- 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
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Best for a broad industry overviews. Covers industry trends, forecasts, major players andView Details
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- 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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- 31 Jan 2017
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The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
capital markets, it’s perhaps simply a good time to celebrate the success story that it is the US economy and US capital markets and to reflect on what it took to get to this point in our history. For... View Details
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- 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