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Richard T. Crane
Beginning with a small brass foundry at his Uncle’s lumber yard, Crane built one of the largest plumbing supply companies in the world. Though he diversified into the manufacture of elevators in the late nineteenth century (even controlling 95% of the elevator View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Web
Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
ineffective therapies Help providers to utilize products better and minimize errors Concentrate marketing efforts on value, not volume and discounts Support provider efforts to measure and improve results at... View Details
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
Benson P. ("Ben") Shapiro, the School's former Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, has left full-time teaching at HBS to concentrate on research, writing, public speaking, and consulting. A well-known authority on View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
assumption that continuity is more desirable. The problem apparently has much to do with the narrow definition of success, the ability to outperform the stock market that the authors use as the primary criterion for their study. Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
startup is initially focusing on the freely tradable global market for copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver concentrates—estimated to be around $50 billion—which excludes companies that process their own View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
cross-referenced this information with employment data for the largest industry clusters within each ethnic group—for example, grocery stores for Yemenis, gas stations for Punjabis, and taxicabs for Bangladeshis and Eritreans. They found that the smallest and most... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University Press) Economists have historically concentrated on analyzing markets while glossing over the complexities of organizations... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
documents showed sophisticated understanding of the relationship between increasing CO2 concentrations and increasing temperatures. 1990s In an attempt to prevent regulation, the fossil fuel industry initiated View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
The assumption that industries will become more concentrated as they become more global, that the global economy is a winner-take-all economy, has become common wisdom. But, according to Pankaj Ghemawat and Fariborz Ghadar, empirical... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
software start-up straight out of Yale. She was running the company by the time she left for HBS in 1992. After HBS, she helped launch Open Market, an Internet start-up that made e-commerce software, where she handled both marketing and... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
it might happen someday, regardless of vows to concentrate the technologies on suspected terrorists. But that's not the point here. The point (and questions it raises): Was September 11 a "tipping point" in our fear of loss of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
offers a compelling explanation for the strong ownership concentration seen in German business and reveals the malleable relationship between family and business. It provides rich empirical evidence that offers a new interpretation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Max Wibaux
firefighting while managing two or three challenges simultaneously. This was attractive to me!" Yet the concentration on marketing left Max with gaps in some of the fundamentals of business such as... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- Profile
Evelyne White
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
reinsurance is so expensive is because the cost of capital is unfairly high. When reinsurers sell securities to raise money, buyers expect high returns, just like from any other equity investment, Froot says. “If you look at the risks that compose most reinsurers'... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
section,” Harrold says. “It was welcoming and comforting. We all had a feeling that we’d lost some time and it was time to catch up.” After HBS, Harrold worked as a banker before building a 25-year career as an independent market maker on... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
inequality? What do you think? Original Article The most pervasive theme of 2011 may well have been that of "inequality." The global "occupy" movement provided a constant reminder of the need to at least revisit a timeless issue: the unequal View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett