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- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
significantly more on upfront marketing than non-pioneers. Contrary to expectations, however, firms in markets that exhibited increasing returns did not spend more on their early customer acquisition efforts than other sample companies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new filings is sufficiently high, the bankruptcy courts, like hospitals treating COVID-19... View Details
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
gain access to workers' compensation data. Because the data were collected at the company level, the researchers limited their analysis to firms with only one plant, where the effects of an inspection on injury rates and costs could be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world are converging on a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Why Get an MBA?
has done an admirable job seamlessly integrating this kind of content into the curriculum. I’m a firm believer that sessions like this today will pay great dividends in the future as my classmates and I navigate this growingly complex... View Details
- Web
Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
was chairman, issued a report that noted, “As railways multiply, the collision of interests between them becomes sharp and violent, and where the combatants on all sides are so powerful and opulent, a more than ordinary vigilance and View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
When it comes to starting new ventures, some people think big picture and others dive into the details. When Robb Turner (MBA 1990) talks about the start-up of his flourishing maple syrup company, it’s obvious he’s pretty good at both. A... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
year. And there are mounting signs that her other plans for the neighborhood—a smaller retail-residential site that will house her African-themed online clothing business, a 51,000 square foot live-work building for artists and digital nomads—will also soon come to... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
American corporations have never been more partisan—starting at the top with executives who often bring on like-minded managers belonging to the same political party. Now, new research shows that when boardrooms are dominated by one... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use case studies to illustrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Above: Dowling at home in New York City: “There’s no one model for being a working parent.” Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) had built a successful career in leadership development and executive coaching at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
first Wall Street firm to do so. For me, the jury is still out. Here’s why. Back in the 1960s, I partnered with a commodities broker at the then-existent Hayden, Stone brokerage firm to form the Comsec Fund,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials should shift to rewarding View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Advertising (a firm that helps clients reach the $890 billion youth and hip-hop markets); Bad Boy Films; and Daddy’s House Social Programs, which provides tutoring for more than five hundred students in New... View Details
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Andrew O’Brien | About
2005. Prior to joining HBS he was a Sr. Vice President of a regional Construction Management firm and also served for seven years as an officer in the US Air Force. Andy has a BS in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and an MS in... View Details
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Connell House | About
Connell Limited Partnership, he built one of the largest privately owned companies in the United States. Connell Family In the 1980s, Connell was working for the Ogden Corporation, a New York-based conglomerate with operations ranging... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
Thirty years ago it appeared as if biotech would not only revolutionize healthcare, but also radically improve the very process of R&D itself. This hasn't happened. Though some firms such as Amgen have created dramatic breakthroughs,... View Details