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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
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Business, Too Couples with deliberate rituals feel more satisfied with their relationships. Can businesses also benefit? The Ferrari Way Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
noting that Hasbro (the owner of Parker Brothers) has come out with a number of new versions of Trivial Pursuit in the last five years. Furlong thinks that Cranium has forced other game makers to focus on new ways to gain, or at least... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all,... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
the parties assume the traditional roles of "benevolent donor" and "grateful recipient." For example, urban community-service nonprofit City Year began its relationship with Timberland, a maker of outdoor apparel and footwear, when City... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he... View Details
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Europe - Global Activities 2021
players, such as Just Arrived, to initiate change. They, in turn, pressure decision makers to create conditions for them to reach scale and depth. Ultimately, you see, they drive progress in each other.” “ The case presents a range of... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Brand Name Management National Markets Advertising Products Trade... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
2014 Harvard Business Review Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49544 November 2015 Annual Review of Economics Peer-to-Peer Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, and Jonathan Levin Abstract—Peer-to-peer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Historians.) Hisano’s paper looks at how industry players and regulators collectively decided what any given food is supposed to look like—and redefined the marketing meaning of “natural.” The quest for summery butter and orange oranges... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
next stage." In the first, or philanthropic, stage (which some partnerships skip entirely), the parties assume the traditional roles of "benevolent donor" and "grateful recipient." For example, urban community-service nonprofit City Year began its relationship with... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
you pay full price, and Adobe Limited Edition. It actually costs more to make that, because you've got to change the code to strip things out. But at least you've segmented the markets." Market Makers... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Alibaba is about to make history with the first genuine mega-IPO of a Chinese entrepreneur-founded company in the United States. The numbers are historic as well—an anticipated market capitalization of some $200 billion. It comes to the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
"strategic"-with marketing people developing a marketing-centric strategy and favoring the marketing side of business-and derives two rational mechanisms for this outcome, one confidence-based and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
competitiveness. We also include a number of special chapters focusing, among other things, on environmental regulations and competitiveness, a paper that was authored by Professor Porter and Professor Daniel Esty on innovation and also on labor View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
American market. A successful engineer, entrepreneur, and sustainable development champion, Willums was CEO of Think Global AS (TH!NK), a privately held Norwegian maker of electric vehicles (EVs). Having already raised $85 million in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace