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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
enough heat and force to delineate the grooves that contain the music’s data. Once the edges are trimmed off, the records are stacked and left to cool. In 2019, 75 percent of Gold Rush’s orders were for black vinyl records. Now most are... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
a new purpose for a corporation. And they listed five things. And in order those five things were number one, delivering value to customers. Fair enough. Number two, investing in our employees. Okay. Number three, dealing fairly and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the entrepreneurial process - from... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
Companies and people need to embrace change in order to succeed in the future, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In this, the second of a two-part interview for HBS Working Knowledge, she explains the leadership skills of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
depicting the circumstances as it does, the movie will still send a message, says Mandelli. “The message is of women being ambitious, and that being okay, and the message of women wanting to make money and that being okay,” she says. “I... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
disease threatened to become a pandemic. Travel restrictions were put in place, quarantine orders issued, and vaccine development fast-tracked. SARS sickened about 8,000 people and killed about 800 in 32 countries, but by mid-2003, the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that provides View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
of whom could benefit from using 3-D printing technology in different ways. In order to reach them, the company faced three options, which Cespedes spells out in a Teaching Note accompanying the case: (1) developing an outbound sales... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
being sold and measuring the effectiveness of an ad campaign. Improved technology promises to solve the age-old problem once stated by retailer John Wanamaker: Half of the money spent on advertising is wasted, but no one knows which half.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
1-3). In our final two studies, we highlight two boundary conditions for this effect: identifying a specific gift and using money as a gift. When gift recipients request one specific gift, rather than providing a list of possible gifts,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action films). This effect is sizeable in magnitude, with a 2% increase in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
frequently entails short-terms risks in order to create societal value. "Our analysis suggests that most companies rarely coordinate among the three theatres, let alone recognize the contributions of each to societal well-being," write... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
demand model, Stanton and Thomas estimate that hand-holding premium accounts for about two-thirds of the price increase for first-time users, while markups represent the other third. Charging any premium, however, counters the common marketing logic of charging... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
"Doctors and hospitals must be fairly compensated in order to supply first-rate patient care," Slavin emphasizes. "Doctors are seeing more patients than ever, and in some specialties, reimbursement has fallen by 50 percent. But I think... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill and former executive Kent Lineback discuss the steps to take and the roadblocks to avoid in order to meet that challenge. Is Groupon Good for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff