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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
this. And after a year, the phones started ringing.” Prokanga now has two strong practices, with approximately 60 percent of their business on the finance side and 40 percent on the View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
When electronic cigarettes first appeared a little over a decade ago, they were hailed by many as a godsend: a tool to help smokers quit while mitigating the most harmful effects of tobacco. "The [e-cigarette] market is producing, at... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
ticketing, ride-sharing, and online retailing. This paper identifies two downsides of dynamic pricing: opportunistic returns and strategic choice of payment method. Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
Annelena Lobb, Deshpandé examines the paths of two successful yoga teachers, each with a different approach to practicing and marketing the ancient discipline of yoga. There’s Bikram Choudhury, the founder... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rohan Kekre
reasoning and quantitative tools to a set of public policy questions having first-order importance in the real world. After graduation I took a job as a management consultant at McKinsey in their New York office. I started in July 2008, and within View Details
- 01 May 2019
- Blog Post
Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset
evidence to support our side and argue against the other.) Taking a position and conveying a persuasive argument is a very important skill, but once we flesh out both sides of the arguments, I wonder if we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
sides will benefit from the control in costs, reduction of Medicare’s costs, and revitalization of the insurance market that this proposal will create. Our proposal charts a bipartisan path. It bolsters the... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
John, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “They assume the Bachelor can only like one type of woman.” “When you like one lake, people infer that you hate cities” It turns... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous boom in the venture capital industry. The pool of U.S. venture capital funds has grown from less than $1 billion in 1976 (Charles River Associates 1976) to over $60 billion in 1999.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick glance at the annual View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
return to consulting afterward. But Izquierdo, who spent six months at an Italian culinary institute after high school, had long wanted to open her own eatery as a side venture. In the meantime, Azuero had been mulling entrepreneurial... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
sold between 1997 and 2005. Luo’s paper addresses the pitch or spec dilemma from two perspectives: that of the writer, who needs to decide if and when to sell his or her idea, and that of the buyer, who needs to decide at what stage to... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru
Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Peru? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
is an exploration of what it means for a business to be different, to be meaningfully different, to be different in a way that makes a difference to consumers," she says. “Differentiation is a way of thinking.” An authority on innovative consumer View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Fast Answer
Emerging markets: news sources
Where can I find news sources with an emerging markets focus? EMIS (multilingual) Enter search terms into the main search box. Filter results by expanding Regions & Countries, click Clear selections, then add countries of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
negotiation theory, Professor Subramanian explores the common situation in which negotiators are “fighting on two fronts” — across the table but also on the same side of the table with competitors. This is a... View Details