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Kimball Thomas
cousins noticed a brisk market for discounted pool tables made in China. “We flew to China and talked to manufacturers,” says Kimball. “Right then and there, we committed to the minimum order: fifty tables. It wasn’t scary then, but... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Foods, joined Colgate in 1988 as head of its Far East and Canada operations. "How do you take an idea or product that may work in Latin America and introduce it into Asia or Africa, instantaneously? All multinationals are working on this problem because speed is of the... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
brand shouldn’t be about erecting barriers to keep consumers out; indeed, growth requires the welcoming of new faces,” concludes HBS marketing professor Anat Keinan in a July 2014 Harvard Business Review article, “How ‘Brand Tourists’ Can... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the regional cooperatives own SOK, a centralized company that provides services to the regional cooperatives. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, S Group lagged far... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate bylaws that enabled corporations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
strength in high precision coordinate measuring machines, a universal measuring tool that had been widely used since its introduction in the mid-1970s. The market faced a complex diversification of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers will become a reality. And the competition to bring the first working solution to market is incredibly fierce. Levy is aware of all this. “We’re little guys,” he says, laughing. “We’re going... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
symposium will be collected and published at a later date. The following is a list of the papers' authors: Business History Professor Thomas K. McCraw and Assistant Professor Nancy F. Koehn Competition and Strategy Professors Adam M.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
Italian soccer star on the cover; in England, the English one; in Germany, the German one. Otherwise people don't buy it." "The Internet is Hell," he said, "but it gives us a chance to reach each one of you everywhere at anytime." View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
later you have to generate sufficient profit to support market expectations. The problem is, if top management pushes too hard for profit and doesn't have the right controls in place, employees may start to do dumb things like misstating... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
over the world participating in short-term consulting projects that add value to our global company partners and help students build skills in teamwork, international business, leadership, and market analysis. G – GO: Africa. Beginning... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
competitive advantage-Red Bull had established itself as the U.S. market leader in energy drinks. By 2008, however, Red Bull's dominance was challenged as Monster drinks surpassed it in volume. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2006 (Revised December 2009)
- Compilation
Skype
By: Peter A. Coles and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Presents eBay's rationale for its $2.6 billion acquisition in late 2005 of Skype, a fast growing voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) provider. Describes Skype's history, technology, business model, and competition, as well as government regulation of VoIP services. View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
two contrasting approaches to delivering digital content to users. Can Apple and the recording industry seriously compete against free? Do iTunes and p2p help each other in some ways? Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and collaborator Andres Hervas-Drane discuss their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne