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- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
are often, but not always, the first to market with their innovations. Sometimes the early user-manufacturers are displaced by large, well-capitalized companies, but in other cases, they grow up to be industry leaders. These stable... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
& Company, where he worked on commercializing biologic therapies for autoimmune diseases. Leading market research and patient support program development gave Hunter a chance to interact with hundreds of patients and physicians who... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article suggests that the business history of emerging View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
social enterprise (WISE), a type of organization that helps people transition back into the labor market after long-term unemployment. It also exemplifies what organization theorists call a hybrid: Rather than depending on charitable... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates
candidates feel excluded. Job postings are an important marketing tool and should convey an inclusive message if you hope to build a more diverse team. We also recommend explicitly stating your organization's commitment to diversity and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
sign-up process is easy. Service members and veterans can validate their military service against a government database or a military financial institution catering to nine million military customers through a real-time process. (For... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part of the country were they from? What was their age, income, and education by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
perturbation enables efficient exploration in the midst of intense exploitation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets Authors:John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using the Black-Scholes formula, how much top executives... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
the order management cycle? Benson Shapiro: In the late 1970s, when I was teaching the Industrial Marketing course in the MBA program at Harvard, it began to become clear to me that to really manage many businesses, one needed to deal... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
and support it by three bullet points by early morning on class day. Initially, students submitted their responses via a text-based VAX system. Bhide, along with Professor Howard H. Stevenson, who also taught the class, then upgraded the material to a View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
counterparts. The empirical evidence presented in the chapter demonstrates that diversified business groups can add value in mature markets such as Britain. Even the much-criticized conglomerates of the 1970s-1990s were quite successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
Unique Identification System," with Anjali Raina (HBS AMP 174, 2008), executive director of the HBS India Research Center in Mumbai. "Any company that wants to operate in emerging markets that are large and populous, like China,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Markets oral history database at the Harvard Business School to examine business leaders’ perceptions of political risk over time between the 1970s and the present day, employing NVivo coding of the dataset... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
environmental record is actually quite mixed. But you wouldn't know it from environmental ratings and rankings that claim to highlight the most environmentally proactive companies. News Corporation was awarded the highest rating of "AAA" in the Global... View Details