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- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
dollars of inventory sold during the liquidation of chains such as Borders (2012), Circuit City (2009), and Linens 'n Things (2008) is considered. Their technique optimizes key decision variables, such as the markdown of products;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system should spend View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
removed from fossil crude. As a result, algae could pull fossil-fuel generated CO2 out of the atmosphere and transform it into nearly carbon-neutral diesel or jet fuel with minimal environmental impact—a handy trick when demand for... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
Business School Case 111-082 The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice investigation for tax fraud, which claimed that UBS had helped some 52,000 U.S. residents hide billions of dollars... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
"We see infrastructure as a $60 trillion opportunity." —Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982), CEO, General Electric "Transportation offers the single best opportunity to make cities livable and affordable." —Scott Griffith, former CEO, Zipcar... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
professor who served as panel moderator, the money flow in venture capital may have been down 51 percent in 2001 compared to 2000, but the sum total was still greater than the previous eighteen or so years combined. Ed Kania, managing View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
narrative about themselves. How long will this take? It depends. Career changes take longer than transitioning between related jobs. “My general advice,” said Radtke, “is that it takes seventy meaningful conversations to turn up three... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry"... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
a general management skillset that transcended sectors – private, non-profit, and public. Our most urgent social issues require a multi-faceted approach that spans these sectors because those with the financial and other resources to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
broader impact on the world. “It was super flattering to be selected,” says Nussey, whose companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value over his career. He cofounded a software company in high school and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that you've seen generally in the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
consumers bestow their loyalty by spending most of their grocery dollars with one retailer for 1-2 percent payback? Let's look more closely at the actual rewards. They come in two forms : (1) turbo charged vouchers (doubling, tripling, or... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
is not really making a profit on hardware sales. It prices its hardware low as a way to encourage people to buy a lot of e-books." Apple, on the other hand, makes several hundred dollars on each iPad sale, able to charge a premium because... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
broke the million dollar barrier, and several others sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. These rapidly rising prices provoked greater coverage in the press, which in turn expanded the circle of stakeholders that converged on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
overburdened by debt is that it has steadily taken more borrowing to finance our growth. In the 1950s the economy grew by 73 cents for each dollar of added debt. In the 1960s it was 65 cents. By the 1980s it was only 34 cents, and so far... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
of thousands of dollars on shares that may end up being worth a fortune—or nothing at all. This decision often needs to be made within 90 days of leaving a company. Some exercises may inadvertently subject shareholders to Alternative... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details