Market Attractiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

deal sources, right? The people, the investment banks, the middle market investment banks who provide deals—and underlying all of that is two critical problems, right? One is there's just pervasive, unconscious bias. It's not intentional.... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

theory was very attractive to me, and when I realized that financial market problems could be a legitimate area for serious academic research, I was off and running. One of the nice things about this award... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent stock View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

before. We now know to call it jazz, but they won't have that term applied to music until 1915. So he's creating something that nobody knows what to call. It's called that raggedy uptown stuff. And he's doing it in a way that's attracting... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

coordination between sales, marketing, and, crucially, manufacturing. As an egomaniacal, 30-year-old marketing maven, I had been conditioned to look down on the “functional groups” run by people without advanced degrees who got their... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

timescales not just of days and weeks but of decades—something that can’t be done with gusting winds and fickle sunshine. “We know how much power we’re going to get out of this for the next 40 years,” Smith says. The potential market for... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Ukraine will likely intensify, roiling energy markets further and raising questions about the future of globalization, says HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal. Putin’s iron fist vs. Zelensky’s moral clarity Historian and HBS professor Nancy... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

DO (work to remain relevant), GO (travel), and HA (laugh) which inspired and guided her venture. Vitality Society quickly attracted nearly 2,000 members who are taking advantage of live Zoom fitness, wellness, and enrichment classes. In... View Details

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