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- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
On February 14, US Airways and American Airlines put their names on a valentine to each other as they announced an $11 billion merger, a union that created the largest airline in the United States. For American, it was one more step in... View Details
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint
- 2018
- Working Paper
Reverse the Curse of the Top-5
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Reverse the Curse of the Top-5." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-052, October 2018.
- September 1987 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
Patten Corp.
Forbes Magazine criticized the revenue recognition policy of Patten Corp. As a result, the company's stock price dropped by a significant amount. The students are asked to discuss if the criticism by Forbes is justified, and if not, what the company should do. View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Statements; Budgets and Budgeting; Problems and Challenges; Financial Condition; Spending; Revenue; Planning; Quality; Stocks; Journalism and News Industry
Palepu, Krishna G. "Patten Corp." Harvard Business School Case 188-027, September 1987. (Revised December 1996.)
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
"What I’ve said that turned out to be right will be considered obvious, and what was wrong will be humorous" —Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1995 In 2001, I wrote a book explaining why accelerated growth strategies created value for some... View Details
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
1936-1937. The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography: Body By the 1920s, with the rise of national magazines and improved technical reproduction of photographs,... View Details
- Article
Reverse the Curse of the Top-5
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Reverse the Curse of the Top-5." Accounting Horizons 33, no. 2 (June 2019): 17–24.
- Web
New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
including The American Railroad Journal (established in 1832); the New York Times (1851); The Stockholder: Monitor of Finance and Industry (1862); The Commercial and Financial... View Details
- Web
What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Journal (UK) “Mr Porter and Ms Teisberg have written a profound and powerful critique of America's health-care system. It deserves to be read widely. View Details
- December 2009
- Article
Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
Since the dawn of broadcasting, and especially in the past decade, Americans have turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Ethnicity; Behavior; Local Range; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; United States
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Joel Waldfogel. "Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?" American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009).
Mark L. Egan
Mark Egan is the Mark Kingdon Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Unit, teaching Corporate Financial Operations to MBA students.
Professor Egan’s research concentrates on the intersection of corporate finance and industrial... View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
was uncomfortable with many of the assumptions being made, because they had a blame-the-victim quality that I didn't like and I didn't identify with. I was trying to speak out about that, and as a... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Advice from an Intern
The last time I was an intern was nearly 10 years ago, when I was an undergrad working in New York for a magazine and banking about $10 an hour. Now as an MBA student, I’m getting the unusual chance to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
Joshua R. Schwartzstein
Joshua Schwartzstein is a Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit.
Professor Schwartzstein is a behavioral economist who focuses on incorporating psychologically realistic assumptions about... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
rationally respond to attractive investment opportunities signaled by public market shifts. The Relationships between Market Orientation and Alternative Strategic Orientations: A Meta-Analysis Author:Amir Grinstein Periodical:European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Jung Koo Kang
Jung Koo Kang is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Kang’s research areas are in financial technology and innovation, alternative data,... View Details
Eva Ascarza
Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit. She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing core in the MBA required... View Details
- April 2021
- Article
Homing and Platform Responses to Entry: Historical Evidence from the U.S. Newspaper Industry
By: K. Francis Park, Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
We examine how heterogeneity in customers’ tendencies to single-home or multi-home affects a platform’s competitive responses to new entrants in the market. We first develop a formal model to generate predictions about how a platform will respond. We then empirically... View Details
Keywords: Single-homing; Multi-homing; Platform Responses; Newpaper; Television; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Newspapers; Television Entertainment; History; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry
Park, K. Francis, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu. "Homing and Platform Responses to Entry: Historical Evidence from the U.S. Newspaper Industry." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 4 (April 2021): 684–709.
- 28 Jul 2021
- Video
Aroon Purie
Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of India Today, discusses the importance of producing valuable content that people are willing to pay for when moving to digital magazines rather than print and the role that social media plays in advertising. View Details
- Web
The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine , September 1877, p. 614. Statement Showing the First Mortgage Gold Bearing Six Per Cent. Bonds of The Atchison & Pike’s Peak Railroad Company (Central Branch of the Union Pacific) to be A First-Class... View Details