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- May 2019
- Teaching Note
JUUL and the Vaping Revolution
By: Michael W. Toffel, Trevor Fetter, John Masko and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 619-006. View Details
Keywords: Electronic Cigarettes; E-Cigarettes; Vaping; Nicotine Replacement; JUUL; Juuling; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Customers; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Marketing; Ethics; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Information Technology; Technology Industry; San Francisco
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
sports, a two-year campaign to acquire star performers with extraordinary multimillion-dollar, multiyear contracts. “It seems like more and more in our economy, we believe if you were a star somewhere else, we can bring you over and right... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
was simply too vast to be controlled in any meaningful way. Others thought differently—including Mitchell and Herbert Hoover. Hoover, who was Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928 (when he began his successful campaign to become... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
corporate confessions presents something of a behavioral paradox. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would firms that identify violations turn themselves in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
system clash with the digital age, and how to take action. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors show how business must serve both as innovator and activist, developing corporate strategies that effect... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and the September 11th Fund. We asked Wei-Skillern to discuss the book and its practical applications for business leaders. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you and your coauthors write this book?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
describes her personal journey from art student and college dropout to financier and campaigner for corporate sustainability. Trillium grew out of Bavaria's initial work in Boston-based Franklin Research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708034 The Campaign for Bank Insurance in Antebellum New York Harvard Business School Case 708-037 The New York State Legislature had come to a standstill in 1829 as lawmakers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
investment firm, he and his partners paid particular attention to defining their corporate culture by considering, “How are we going to behave with each other, how we’re going to be with clients, how do we practice our authenticity?” he... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians' wish lists. Those facing tough... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
has called it “genocide.” The UN says that in Texas-sized Darfur, some 2 million black Africans (who, as it happens, are almost all followers of Islam) have been displaced. As many as 300,000 may have died, the victims of a campaign of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy stocks. The second effect comes from promises to reduce tax rates... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
passionate belief that their firms needed to be major contributors to solving the problems which had kept their countries and people poor compared to the West. "There are those with whom I don't agree," said Bajaj, "who say our job is to run industry, and to hell with... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
countries, WWF works with governments, businesses, other NGOs, and communities to set up conservation programs to preserve natural habitat. In contrast, Greenpeace works to campaign for environmental change against governments and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
“Each corporate partner donates a certain number of pro bono hours to Endeavor a year, and our offices allocate them to the entrepreneurs,” says Ko, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before heading to HBS in 2003. “It’s a win-win... View Details