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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy
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  • February 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Supplement

Avaya (D): Early Results of the Demand Generation Initiative

Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Cooperation; Sales
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Research Brief: Staying in the Game

negotiating with creditors. Some large companies, meanwhile, rely on that protection to renegotiate their debt obligations and become financially healthier. Of the two types of filings, chapter 7 is the liquidation of business assets; chapter 11 is a tool often used by... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration; C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator Crypto/Web 3.0 Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Marvin Bower Associate Professor John Wu (MBA 2000), Chair Avalabs The New Gold Rush in Climate... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Ayelet Israeli
Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data... View Details
Keywords: Channel Management; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Online Marketing; E-commerce; Analytics; Econometrics; Field Experiments; Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; Value Of Data
  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Benetton Group S.p.A., 2000

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2000, Benetton was one of the leading mass fashion competitors in the world with approximately $1.9 billion in sales across 5,500 stores in 120 countries. But the company's fortunes seemed to be on the wane. Operating profits had fallen 9% from the prior year to... View Details
Keywords: Fashion; Strategic Change; Strategic Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Performance Consistency; Management Teams; Strategy; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Italy
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  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 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
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Salesforce, which acquired the firm in 2021. Microsoft, meanwhile, was finally able to draw users to Teams, the free business communication platform it introduced in 2017 as part of Office 365. "Can these collaborative software platforms... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Morgan Hall | About

philanthropist, art collector, and iconic figure in US business. Morgan began his career in 1857, working in international finance in a firm headed by his father. In 1871, with Anthony Drexel, he cofounded Drexel, Morgan & Company, a... View Details
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, recently published by Harvard Business Press, aims to give the topic its intellectual due. Edited by Khurana and Nitin Nohria, who will become the new Dean of Harvard Business School on July 1,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

President, The Baupost Group Download Klarman profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, New York City 1979 Joins Mutual Shares full time 1982 Baupost is launched 1990 Creates Klarman Family Foundation... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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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  • 2021
  • Chapter

Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
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  • 26 Jan 2022
  • News

Making Peace with Anger

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm founded in 1937 by his grandfather and his great... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the determinants of global talent flows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients—and winning View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs