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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments
DIT course assignment. To identify and analyze firms using company data and reports, you may begin with more than one of the following databases: View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
Buying Power Good for finding granular data on income, purchasing power, and lifestyle of American consumers. Suggested Resources Books American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money Who we are: Blacks Who's Buying by Race and Hispanic... View Details
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Allie Corless
startup rather than a well-funded private equity firm or investment bank because my HBS experience has helped me to clearly see that I am an entrepreneur at heart. I have a strong appetite for risk and now, as I graduate from HBS with few... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
especially with grocers, is that they use these cards to give discounts at the checkout. In the process of doing this, they have accumulated a lot of data. What they do with that data is anybody's guess. Other retailers, such as Talbots... View Details
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Rocio Parra
departments and P&Ls, human capital management and higher level strategic decision-making. What did you learn during the job search process? Through the job search process, I learned about the power of networking and the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
his research, few managers know how to channel innovative thinking into practice by making sense of the overwhelming amount of market, financial, and technical data now available and then sharing discoveries and strategies with other... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
change has brought over the last two decades, it is that business is becoming fully engaged on the issue. Firms may not have the answers or even the will to make changes toward sustainable practices, but they can't do nothing.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
want to, and having different levels of understanding is something that will be invaluable in my career. You took advantage of your time at Harvard to intern in both the consulting and venture capital fields. What did you learn from those... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
practical application is no longer enough, Iansiti asserts. Firms must take control of the technology integration process from the very beginning, matching new technological possibilities to the appropriate applications in order to create... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and customer sensitivity to service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
hard-to-understand financial accounting, hold the greatest hope for change. But these very investors were generally characterized as having both short memories and a high level of greed, not very promising characteristics for leaders of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
force them to move production destined for China to somewhere else. Such unintended consequences make businesses uneasy. Firms conduct business under a set of accepted rules, just like athletes want to compete on a View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
primarily to beat price reductions out of the supplier. This problem will persist unless senior retail executives work to reset employees' expectations and incentives at the working level when they forge what they see as a strategic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?
who have founded firms and social enterprises. With the support of Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, HBS professor Josh Lerner will survey the entire active alumni community for whom the University has email contact information. The... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at MIT's Department of Economics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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Arum Kang
As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne