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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
advantage in the form of improved profitability by aggressively hiring the excluded group, namely women, in the local managerial labor market. Our results are economically meaningful and realistic in size, in addition to being robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
vendors like IBM and Oracle on the open source community. Why are proprietary firms diving into open source? The answer (it's good for business) is hardly shocking. But the line from investing in OSS to profiting from a product is not as... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
1,022 students. With most of the teaching is in English—although students also have to learn a second foreign language—the school draws students not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. Deza now owns three other schools, licenses out another one,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public interest due to its booming oil and... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
latest technological buzz, what some people are calling a revolution, centers on the Internet. Even neo-Luddites must admit that this network of wires that links computers all around the globe is changing the world. Still, given that the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
capacity to fulfill the high volume of orders is going to be challenging for many retailers and third-party logistics companies. Some companies like Walmart are adding pop-up centers for online orders inside the distribution View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, was a research model built for a different era. When groups like AT&T’s Bell Labs and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) were formed,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
a horrible constraint for investment,” Cummings says of Detroit’s financial chaos prior to the bankruptcy. “Now the uncertainty has been removed.” This certainly wasn’t the largest or most profitable project Cummings had ever undertaken,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
the London event, while Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi moderated for the Singapore event. The conversation addressed questions like, “Can a system designed to generate profit really make a difference against the massive social and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
for more companies to practice “values-based capitalism.” Could you cite any examples? There is a growing number of well-run, profitable companies that have values at the center of their management strategy.... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience
and English double major, I had never thought about business school. I found out about Peek serendipitously via email. My school’s career center sends out informational emails here and there and this one caught my eye. When I first read... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
relationship management or ‘customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
companies are built for long-term success. They observed that visionary companies demonstrate these qualities: Do not require charismatic leadership Pursued several objectives of which only one was profit Almost religiously preserved a... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
discontinuity design that facilitates sharper identification of treatment effects, we find a significant and discontinuous increase in tax avoidance following Russell 2000 inclusion. The tax avoidance involves the use of tax shelters, and immediate benefits include... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Beyond Hong Kong's towering skyline and ship-filled harbor, the Kowloon Peninsula gives way to the verdant hills and peaks of the Chinese mainland. The bustling international business center is a natural gateway to an area that has... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
right to decide that their business exists solely to maximize profits. But let’s stop to examine what that even means. What are those things that cause profits to be maximized? And should we be aiming to maximize them this year, or next... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)