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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rolling Thunder
1901 — two years before Harley-Davidson — Indian held nearly half of U.S. market share for the next fifty years before falling on hard times and filing for bankruptcy. The brand retains a cultlike following... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Hands-on Experience in Hospitality
During my time in Barcelona, I was able to see the operations of the hotels, understand the financial model of the hospitality industry, get to know their marketing strategies and see how crucial HR is to... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-062.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but... View Details
- 26 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”
through the efforts of a tiny team that began with three people and had grown to just eleven. “I thought it was the ideal place to go,” Felipe says. “The uncertainty makes it more interesting. How do you take a product aimed at a Canadian View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
co-president of the Soccer Club and captain of the HBS Soccer Team. Tell us more about how you’re spending the summer between your first and second years? This summer I have the privilege of working as the Marketing Strategy and... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
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
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
requiring that much software be rewritten. Over the next twenty years, Murthy spent little time at home. In 1990, he lived in France for three months, closing just one deal. His efforts paid off. Today Infosys is a serious contender in... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And those were just the public... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
is happening is business as usual. Microsoft is facing a race with time and the markets to re-deploy monopoly profits from a waning desktop opportunity in order to become more competitive with sumos in other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Kevin Barenblat Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
sheet of blue tarp for shade, waiting for fares. Often, their only advertisement was a small hand-drawn sign tied to a post with a bit of wire. “Seventy-five percent of their time ... they were actually idle,” Makarim told a crowd... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
mortgage market work? Our notion is that if government guarantees matter at all, they matter in a time of crisis. If there is a housing bust, it will be amplified by the reluctance of private investors to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
director of sponsorships and marketing for Major League Baseball. His ultimate goal? "I'd love to own the Yankees," he says with a smile. It may have taken his parents some time to accept his change in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- Profile
Hunter Goble
transferable skills, gain more upward mobility, and have more organizational impact.” After an internship with Eli Lilly, Hunter joined the company upon graduation. “I got hired into the marketing rotational program: two six-month... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
market driven structure. The blending of national cultures over time in Hong Kong, where a high level of economic success has been recorded, may ultimately hurt the performance of companies in that country.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Photos by Chris Taggart Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym G.I.R.L.” In late 2016,... View Details
Keywords: April White