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  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

commercial buildings in the asset mix. Cities don't claim that office buildings, retail malls, or factories were built for the Games. Even Olympic housing is seldom successfully transformed into apartments or public housing once the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • November 2019 (Revised May 2020)
  • Case

Collibra

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2008 at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Collibra was a data intelligence company that found product-market fit in the years after the global financial crisis when many companies were under pressure from consumers and governments to improve their data management... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Markets; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Belgium; Brussels; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

Competitiveness Institute, Hanoi/Singapore, December 2010 Abstract The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal for an economic View Details
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

over the past decade as one of the most active areas of research in economics and strategy. The literature has constantly struggled, however, with a lack of agreement on a proper definition; for instance, some existing definitions imply that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2019
  • News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

years ago, pretty homogeneous. And leaving for the first time living somewhere else, and just realizing how expansive the world is, how diverse the world is, how many different types of people there are, actually being immersed in a... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

good. If the content provider sells its content outright and relinquishes control over its price, the content will tend to be exclusive unless there are sufficient market expansion effects. On the other hand, if the content provider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once dominant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

the bigger the vision, the greater number of things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise, Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • January 1994
  • Article

Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Expansion; Chemicals; Metals and Minerals; Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Research and Development; Trade; Investment; Production; United Kingdom; United States; Scotland; Wales
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Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

Founder and Managing Partner of MKH Capital Partners, Annette has built the firm and spearheads MKH’s investment strategy and firm management. Prior to MKH, Annette was a Partner at Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

Backhanded Compliments: How Negative Comparisons Undermine Flattery By: Sezer, Ovul, Alison Wood Brooks, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Seven studies (N = 2352) examine backhanded compliments—seeming praise that draws a comparison with a negative standard—a distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

often for two or more years. Any debtor, no matter how small, could hold up the process at any point by issuing written complaints to the court. Fernando needed to figure out whether the company was worth saving, whether it had a business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Published: January 10, 2011 For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

has begun to grow kiwifruit outside of New Zealand in order to have the product on retail shelves year round. Is this the right strategy for the future? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

returns. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a modest long position in the U.S. dollar. There is little evidence that risk-minimizing investors should adjust their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2016
  • News

Competing Against Luck

seen them pop up over the last 50 years. And the man who organized IKEA is the third richest guy in the world. And yet, IKEA has no competitors. They have no competitors. There are other retailers that sell furniture, but nobody has... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

more than $150 million in assets to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Such registration will subject these managers to regular reporting and inspections by the SEC, although these managers can continue to pursue any investment View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • News

Launching a Fashion Site

Keywords: fashion; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade