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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman cowrote an article...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
John Whiteside (MBA 1983) Brad VanAuken (MBA 1984) Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) and Gerard Meyer (MBA 1988) Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) Marie Konstance (MBA 1982) Nvalaye Kourouma (MBA 2005) *Numbers seem off?...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes, several newspapers simply posted...
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Julia Hanna
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
case entitled Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space, which he uses as part of his course in the MBA elective curriculum, The Role of Government in Market Economies. In that course, Weinzierl and his students investigate when and how government...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
attractive outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. HBS professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
on the supply side, why has production fallen? It’s at least in part because people—at varying times across the country—either haven’t been allowed to go to work (because of pandemic-related lockdowns) or have been too afraid to go to...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
cofounded Aspect Ventures. Draper believes in the entrepreneur-as-hero concept so literally that visitors to Hero City, the incubator directly across the street from Draper University, will find a 50-foot-wide mural of Batman, Robin,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Gerstner (HBS MBA '65), [General Electric's] Jack Welch, and [Xerox's] Ann Mulcahy, who can manage with multiple styles, but that's rare." Lessons Learned In addition to nursing the pain of the past season, Boston's baseball fans are...
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- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
how European debates about political economy were translated with time across the Atlantic in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Through acts of translation, and in the context of intense processes of international and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
do not hold for one network: Twitter. Looking at who uses Twitter, which restricts users to 140-character messages, Piskorski and student-researcher Bill Heil (HBS MBA '09) found that 90 percent of Twitter posts were created by only 10...
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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
value is that all the people aren't seeing, and then visualizing it, and then putting a team together to capture that value. My name is Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch, and I'm MBA Class of 1992. My first job was in a shoe store, and my...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
then assigned a volunteer advocate - typically a 30-something MBA with business experience who donates 15 to 25 hours per week and oversees five to ten cases at a time." "The biggest challenges," notes Gotsch, "are staying responsive to...
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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of "Downton Abbey"! THE WESTMORELAND STORY IS A "CATEGORY OF BUSINESS HISTORY." IS THERE A PLACE FOR THIS SORT OF HISTORICAL STUDY IN THE MBA...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
(Harvard MBA 2007/MD 2008). Thus began a long-standing collaboration. After Porter wrote the case, "he came to the center and said, 'OK, now we have to start collecting some data,'" Feeley says. And so for the past seven years,...
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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
leaders will report new lessons on the art of building trust during a time when it looks remarkably difficult. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice in the General Management Unit. Marco Tabellini:...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Roger Provost (HBS MBA 1980), chief marketing officer for Canadian-based Vincor, as he develops Inniskillin's initial marketing strategy within Canada. Goes on to detail Inniskillin's challenges as it enters other markets, initially...
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Sean Silverthorne