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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into earning money for a charity and thus likely place a higher value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model By: Weiss, Mitchell Abstract—A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
to use for each major transaction is, naturally, Goldman Sachs. Second, selling should be separated from manufacturing to be sure the best manufacturing skills are dedicated to making the best product.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Career Coach
Warren Radtke
Warren (Kellogg '60) is a HBS Career and Professional Development Consultant and a Confidential Advisor to C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs. He has held executive positions in public and privately held companies as well as in the nonprofit sector. In View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. During my time there I learned about the power of an organization to develop technology and execute business strategy to bring positive change in the world. Coming off that... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
to $10 million, that will honor Nohria by supporting: the HBS Fund; the Nitin Nohria Endowment for Business and Society, which in addition to enabling innovative research will establish a professorship named for Nohria; the priorities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
shareholders as well as other interested stakeholders with rather elaborate information on the company's operations and strategic activities during the preceding fiscal year. However, in the last two decades and in addition to these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
with a supporting appendix that describes 19 additional immigrants or immigrant families and their firms. Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We present a two-stage model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Relative Economic Failure since 1982," Maurer examines the trade agreement's impact on the Mexican economy. "In and of itself, NAFTA is pretty successful," he says. "It creates a big wave of foreign direct investment in Mexico, and its View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by operational and View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company identified China as one of the initial investments in the company's Global Manufacturing Strategy that aimed to create... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Quelch and Rodriguez wrote a case in May about Philips, which started in 1891 as a light bulb manufacturer in the Netherlands and, more recently, has become a major manufacturer of medical devices and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
percentage of unionized employees today. However, unionization density remained consistent, in terms of which states ranked highest and lowest, from 1939 onward. Importantly, the variations occurred within individual industries—for example, unionization rates within... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
recently filed for an additional $2.1 billion. And according to various analysts, Uber is on track for an estimated valuation north of $60 billion. To say the least, the company can afford lots of lawyers to fight its global legal... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
and external agglomeration economies have separate, positive impacts on location, with relevant differences by activity; (2) internal economies of agglomeration arise within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
that would allow others to do the same. “A richer understanding of photography,” Adams wrote, “will result in the employee developing an awareness of the significance of his job as a participant in the photographic industry—in addition to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
localities and electric vehicle manufacturers as well as the ability to train a large enough workforce. There is a hunger for good green jobs. For her first 20 slots, she received 1600 applications. The technicians earn a minimum of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would design a golf club on the computer and before... View Details