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  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be losing ground. Sean Silverthorne: Among the retailers you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

"Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of shareholder protection," said David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Center for View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

matters. "Status effects are estimated much smaller once you account for two factors. First, the market places disproportional value on the pinnacle of quality—the Bugattis of this world, for example. And second, the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Reviving Entrepreneurship

New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging... View Details
  • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

AsiaMail.com: What's in a Name?

By: Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus
Three founders of an international Internet company (e-mail-based marketing) struggle with naming the company. As they prepare to invest more than $10 million of first-round venture funding in advertising and marketing, they search for a name that will have power and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Marketing; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Asia
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  • 27 Oct 2020
  • News

HBS Votes

finance, media, and other executives are calling on Americans to stay cool during a heated election season.” March to the Polls “2020 is not canceled. It’s the year we woke up,” according to the March to the Polls (M2P), a grassroots View Details
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Authors:Laura Alfaro and Eliza Hammel Periodical:Journal of International Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution they want. The best entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • October 2006 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

2006 Hurricane Risk

By: Andre F. Perold and Erik Stafford
In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a wealthy California resident was... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cost; Insurance; Price; Risk Management; California; Key West
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  • Career Coach

Jan Pianca

MBA Admissions. Before joining HBS, Jan worked as a Marketing and Communication Manager for Austrian Airlines in Milan. As a career coach to alumni and students, Jan welcomes the opportunity to assist individuals with their job search,... View Details
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

place," Srinivasan says. "That is a value judgment, to be sure. But it may not be a bad thing if certain companies are restricted in their access to financing, simply because loss of trust in public capital View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • November 1997 (Revised October 2000)
  • Case

Interactive Minds (A)

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Christina L. Darwall
The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet are recounted. Raises the question of what the nature of this opportunity is, how well-positioned the protagonists... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Consulting Industry
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  • Fast Answer

Managing Global Operations

decolonization, etc.  The database covers HBR and Fortune magazine. Challenges, and leading industry trends post-Pandemic Gartner Online Information Resources Technology-related market snapshot, news, analysis, trends, leading... View Details
  • November 2000
  • Case

Geocast Network Systems, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Christina L. Darwall and Elizabeth Kind
Geocast, a venture-backed start-up, had developed innovative technology for "datacasting" broadband information and entertainment content to an external hard drive, where it was cached for later retrieval by a Web-enabled PC. By using terrestrial TV, direct broadcast... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Information Management; Technological Innovation; Marketing Channels; Corporate Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are uniquely positioned to serve or appeal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

global capitalism are also shown to have been complex. The book demonstrates the unique ability of capitalism to create wealth for societies through innovation, yet also cautions that the history of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

"There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

James. "I think part of it was a consequence of the natural course of events in early-stage companies – some of them just won't succeed. But it was also about taking on roles that weren’t right for me." As he moved among... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

markets for its principal assets? The case also examines how management at State Street responded to the deterioration in its capital ratios generated by "fair value" accounting. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace