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- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
managing director of the HBS MBA Program, was president and CEO of two lower-middle-market industrial companies, and oversaw the New England Patriots Foundation for four years... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
paper I just assumed that noncompetes were an invention of modern—especially high tech—companies. But as you make clear, noncompetes have enjoyed a long history. How and why did they arise? A: The earliest recorded noncompete case was brought in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
opportunity is very, very short.— Ted Johnson, New England Patriots Topics covered in the course included entrepreneurship; tax and other legal responsibilities; assessing... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Reunion Roundup
Hello, Class of 1952! Photography by Stuart Cahill, C.J. Gunther, Brian Snyder, and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons. Close to three thousand alumni traveled to Soldiers Field in early June to recharge their batteries, visit with old friends, and take in the pleasures of a balmy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Fellowship Dinner Brings Students and Donors Together
donors, recipients, and guests. Crane, a Robert K. & Myra H. Kraft Financial Aid Fund recipient, spoke on behalf of the eight hundred students in the MBA Classes of 2002 and 2003 who have received financial aid through fellowships. He was able to give personal thanks... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
non-core users when they are perceived as brand tourists. The brand tourism effect is mediated by core users' pride and moderated by brand patriotism and selectiveness of the brand. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Limits of Scale:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Cabot Lowell (1775-1817). Slater, a skilled British textile machinery engineer, helped to develop the country's first cotton spinning mill. Lowell, a member of a prominent New England mercantile family,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
enviable connection with its avid New England Patriots fan base. Other sports and entertainment organizations took note, and, in 2016, KAGR was spun off to help outside clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. For twelve years, he was chairman of the Finance Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He now serves on the boards of Swarthmore College, the New View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The September cohort of the Class of 1998 has arrived on campus, and with the new academic year starts a fresh term for the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since the Board represents over 60,000 HBS alumni, I thought it would be appropriate to... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 2013
- Working Paper
NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Vadim Kogan
"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details
Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia
Greyser, Stephen A., and Vadim Kogan. "NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-028, September 2013.
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
to pass the ball. Coupled with a growth in analytics and innovative offensive schemes, the NFL has seen an explosion in passing offense over the past two decades. The New England View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
Amos Hostetter, Jr.
cable subscriber base of over 4 million (third largest in the US) and pioneered the launch of regional cable news channels in New England and Chicago. Hostetter sold his... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
former chairman of London-based Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading venture-capital and private-equity firms, Ronnie Cohen and his parents emigrated, with virtually no possessions, to England from Egypt in 1956. Often said to be the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden... View Details