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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
It was a Friday afternoon on a weekend when no "WAC" (Written Analysis of Cases) was due in the deposit slot by midnight Saturday, so a number of us were preparing to go skiing. I was with sectionmate Fred Marshall, when we noticed a small crowd gathered on the Storrow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
rapid appearance of clones drove a high level of standardization and modularity in the industry, and value was distributed along the value chain depending on levels of competition and ability to substitute components at each level. On the hardware View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Just Do It — Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) Hold Your Tongue — Dick MacKinnon (MBA 1962) Find Your Place — Rusty McClure (MBA 1975) Be Prepared — Peter Kiernan (MBA 1965) Know Your Market — Steve Frenkiel (MBA 2007) Ask the Right Questions —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
"A new push for college athletes to (finally) be paid will gain strength; the NBA will win the broadcasting rights lottery, securing new deals with at least two networks; and the only time A-Rod wears a Yankee uniform next year will be if... View Details
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
making a particularly strong showing.) For Ramaswamy, prepping has involved reading up on market activity, putting in time at the Bloomberg terminals, and asking sectionmates to help talk her through tricky interview questions. “It... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Muccio: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart," HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
book excerpt What My Research Revealed, In Broad Strokes From A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski As I began my research, it quickly became clear that there are two major ways in which companies... 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
- 19 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Bridges: Remembering the “Why”
without kindness There are two true things about HBS students: we are relentless in our pursuit of quality, and we are well past the arena of individual achievement. We want to make things the very best they can be – the best slide deck,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
in the world is crazy." It's evident in labor markets, where the case of India and the software industry is just one example of how incredibly active things are right now. "Of course, the idea market is what scares us all,"... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- Fast Answer
Betas
How do I find current betas for companies? Historical? Industry Beta? Current BETA: Bloomberg Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
side—while the early stage side is not quite as pretty a picture." The Future Of Europe Asked how the market is likely to evolve in a climate that contains enormous diversity in geography, business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
two CEOs agreeing early on about who will run the merged company. Members of the new top management team, he notes, should also ideally come from both sides if a spirit of partnership is to develop.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
sites. Our online visits often come in short bursts rather than extended leisurely strolls through cyberspace. People with higher incomes spend less time online than those making less. In other words, consumers behave online in a much different way than they do in... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus
side of the business, working closely with each department across the entire company including sales, customer success, engineering and marketing. I lead a team of product managers and we all collaborate with engineering to prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a... View Details