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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
parcel of land in a rapidly growing city of some 14 million people with one of the highest real estate values in the world. In “Dharavi: Developing Asia’s Largest Slum,” HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Iyer and lecturer John Macomber... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family line of... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
In the land of the digitally connected, the mobile device is king. The majority of digital media consumption happens on mobile devices, with smartphone and tablet activity making up 60 percent of digital screen time in the United States,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
production, and marketing made it well poised to take on what became known as the SX-70 project (SX meaning “special experiment”). 10 “What we have learned at Polaroid,” Land said, “is the homogeneity and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
generates returns for investors through timber harvesting, recreational leasing, and in some cases, by subdividing the properties for development or non-timber uses. Lyme Timber, however, is unique among TIMOs by virtue of its commitment to View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
e-commerce world is a brutal competitive environment,” says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales Teixeira. “One of the biggest levers retailers have at their disposal to bring in customers is price.” More discounts, however,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
But China will not become a land without farmers or rural industries overnight, and those hundreds of millions of people will need to access the social safety net that allows them to consume if the domestic View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
"a natural experiment," about 1,800 landless families (organized by a Catholic priest) occupied the area in 1981, believing it was owned by the state. In fact, it was made up of privately held tracts of land belonging to 13... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Markets By: Baker, Malcolm Abstract—The link between measures of risk and return within the equity market has been very weak over the past 47 years: in the United States, returns on high-risk stocks have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
power and shale gas are on the right side of the fight against climate change, and why markets have a better shot at winning the fight than governments do. Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation Clear communication is critical for a... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review (summer 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/in_search_of_the_hybrid_ideal Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA ’00) favors ad spots during... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
first-year MBAs overcame significant obstacles to win the twelfth annual Babcock Marketing Case Competition, held in January at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Due to weather delays, the students' flight didn't... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian markets from... View Details
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
Corporation Research & Development Records, b. III.350, f. 3. In addition to the original Land Camera Model 95, Polaroid introduced the Pathfinder Model 110, marketed for professional use, in 1952; the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills after college, where he... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs