New Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

since 1980 when compared to firms in Europe or Asia (measured both by sales and by numbers of new product introductions), this essay explores the interplay of regulation, definitions of "patient"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Our Curriculum - Business History

as firms crossed national borders. It provides cases on entrepreneurs and firms from many countries who were active in pursuits ranging from opium trading and luxury watches to fashion, cinema, finance, and... View Details

14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

marketers, says HBS professor John Quelch. Credit: Gage Skidmore Show the past as prologue. Offering consumers the adventure of voting for an uncertain future never works with the majority, especially if your brand is new to the game.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Finance at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago where he created a new course entitled 'Entrepreneurial Finance and Management.' His course development efforts at Harvard Business School focuses on issues affecting... View Details

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

marketers, who spent $1.42 billion on online video advertising last year in the United States, an investment expected to jump 52 percent to $2.16 billion in 2011, according to analytics firm eMarketer. Tracking Eyes And Faces To help... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Which is why we have committed to you that no one at Aon is going to lose their job because of this COVID-19 outbreak.” Alternatives to salary cuts In addition to salary cuts, firms announced other initiatives to reduce payroll expenses... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, inaugurating dozens of new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

communications, and social impact consulting firm specializing in corporate, entertainment, brand, and nonprofit sectors. When I was first hired, I was an assistant to one of the company's founders and CEOs, and a senior publicist in the... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content of Business Analytics and... View Details

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

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Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2012
News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

and venture capital firm based in Boston, Roe Stamps began to think about succession. “When our VPs became new partners, I told them that someday they would run the company,” says Stamps, whose declaration... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

profound impact on the inclusivity of the systems you are creating," says Luca, who has also coauthored a new case study, Racial Discrimination on Airbnb: The Role of Platform Design. "Platform companies should think through the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

August 2005 (Revised January 2012)
Case

McKinsey and the Globalization of Consultancy

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Alexis Lefort

Considers McKinsey's strategy during the first stage of the globalization of the management consultancy industry between the 1950s and 1973. Briefly reviews the history of management consulting before considering the factors that led McKinsey to open its first... View Details

Keywords: History; Demand and Consumers; Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Service Operations; Consulting Industry

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