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- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town,... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
incredibly complex. When a phone is designed in America and assembled in China with supplies from 30 other countries, where is it from? By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect... View Details
Adolph Zukor
Zukor independently built numerous theatres in major United States cities. Because of the popularity of these theatres, he began to invest heavily in movie production, convinced that big-name actors in large movies would be the future of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
advertising services may be partially integrated in the sense that the in-house agency provides only a limited range of services—say, ad production and media placement—and an independent or outside agency is... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
public use—major new products of either consumer electronics or computer hardware with their essential software technologies. In the United States, no enterprise had the capability to commercialize new consumer electronics technologies.... View Details
Marty Blue
business development, licensing, B2B marketing, product development and industry relations. Marty is currently an Independent board member (and Compensation Committee Chair) at Openbay which is simplifying... View Details
William B. Rayburn
Rayburn went from service station operator to CEO in a 35-year career with Snap-On. He presided over Snap-On’s impressive growth period achieving 52% market share, becoming the world’s largest independent manufacturer and distributor of... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1028&product_isbn=9781133626701&courseid=MN05&codeid=2A3A&sortBy=copyrightYear&sortByShow=all August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Accountability of View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
arrangements from the perspective of the "elephants"? A: Most successful large companies excel at business planning, allocation of capital, and execution. Many are also good at product innovation in the small, continuous... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
then at actor Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment, producing last year’s hit comedy Hitch and 2004’s Saving Face, a romantic comedy about a Chinese-American lesbian’s coming out in her tradition-bound community. Now... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
has a lot in common with film producing and screenwriting. “There is definitely something to be said for having the kind of training I had at Goldman,” says Epstein, who finished production in May on The Deal, a “global oil thriller” she... View Details
- Portrait Project
Anthony Terrizzi
browse through our prepared foods section to find expired products. I was instructed to peel the “sell-by” stickers off the products and replace them with fresh stickers so we didn’t have to throw away the food. I blindly complied, like... View Details
- Fast Answer
Careers, associations and events: medical devices
medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems. Active members include medical technology firms worldwide. Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC): Medical device manufacturers and related companies... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
XTV ventures, however, could produce products for "leading-edge" users, who emphasized technological performance over careful documentation. Giving Up Control Like independent venture capitalists,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
Earlier this summer, I joined Plaid as a Product Manager, culminating my transition from HBS back to the “real world.” My path to joining Plaid full-time didn’t follow the traditional recruiting route. My plan was to join an early to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Dabhol power-plant project in India. As Enron began to emphasize energy trading over hard assets such as power projects and pipelines, the two independently decided to leave the company in 2000. They later reconnected in New York, and... View Details
- Fast Answer
Patent search: The use of component in Espacenet and Patentscope databases
analysis and network analysis Description Targeted problem, prior art, inventive idea, and embodiments Obtaining technical disclosure, conducting a keyword search and/or text mining to determining semantic concepts and similarity among patents Claims... View Details
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
Confronting greater media scrutiny and an ever-increasing number of shareholder resolutions focusing on executive pay, Corporate America continues to support current pay practices as a product of "the market." Not too long ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
freedom, and allowed Praveen to efficiently juggle English classes, two jobs, and four children; my social independence and his social mobility, both empowered by a single wild and precious device. I will empower technology and enable... View Details