01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

Commission on United StatesPacific Trade and Investment Policy. "If successful," Brody explains, "our commission will set a new direction for trade and investment policy with the Pacific Rim countries. Opening the doors View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

working in this area, the field was just beginning to emerge. At the time, corporations were being taken to task for a host of moral failings—neglecting consumer and employee... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

in a digitally-transformed economy. “All of these decisions would be easy to make if I knew what consumer demand will be. The problem is that I have a lot of uncertainty in demand” All retailers face tricky... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and Charity Pre-Industrial Credit in... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A twice-monthly e-zine View Details

13 Jun 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

That Costs HOW Much?

for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53459 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy An Invitation to Market Design By: Kominers, Scott Duke, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

but there has been little research on what the companies are doing, other than merging, to make those things happen," he says. "I had two goals in mind. One was to find View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

HBS! Rachel Silverstein | Class of 2020 Little(s): Jamie (4 months) Pre-HBS Industry: Consumer startup Proudest Accomplishment: Getting into HBS :) Post-HBS Job: Consulting How do you do it? I have an extremely supportive husband! And... View Details

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

could develop only to a point.” 11 When color began to be added to the products themselves, advances in color printing and reproduction followed. Starting in the 1920s American... View Details

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Sarah McConville | About

Business Review Group and HBP Corporate Learning lines of business, as well as HBR Enterprise sales & solutions, and strategic partnerships. She also serves as Chief Marketing Officer, driving cohesive positioning, brand, and channel... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

Business School, studies factors that affect consumer choice. Bollinger, an assistant professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, studies the marketing of sustainable products.) "There are all these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some ways replaced Adam Smith’s... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

and within four years Sears was selling one million units per year.1 In the mid-1960s, B.F. Goodrich embraced radial technology as a means to win market share from its larger rivals, and the company... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

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Laying Down the Principles: Management

A system of centralized management was born from the need to direct the flow of

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

responsibility for the problems, often as a result of the direct or indirect pressures they put on their people. Authentic leaders find ways to resolve this struggle. Expressing humility is a great skill... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Investment analyst reports: banks included in library research

Which investment banks's research do I have access to analyst to and in which database? Investment Bank Region Focus Source Auerbach Grayson North America LSEG Workspace Barclays*... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit ALUMNI INTRODUCTION BACK TO THE EXHIBIT H. Naylor Fitzhugh MBA 1933 H. Naylor Fitzhugh joined the Howard University faculty in 1934 and stayed for 31 years, developing... View Details

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