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  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

incremental change, while also seizing new markets where flexibility, autonomy, and experimentation rule the day. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50401 forthcoming European Economic Review Taxation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

of the French firms which initially dominated the cinema industry. By the 1920s the industry, now concentrated in Southern California, was able to benefit from the size of its home market and its control of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 07 Mar 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Web

Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

value proposition, and stage of development. The Team: Information on founding team and any other key team members or advisors, including HBS affiliation, relevant skills and experiences. The Market/Context: Market need, View Details
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of different types and sizes of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

they grow, and what kind of market they want to be in. But they shouldn't make business decisions blindly, right? That's why we believe this is important to give businesses the tools to audit the outcomes of their algorithms and to make... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Small Campaign Donors

By: Laurent Bouton, Julia Cagé, Edgard Dewitte and Vincent Pons
In this paper, we study the characteristics and behavior of small donors, and compare them to those of large donors. We first build a novel dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and... View Details
Keywords: Campaign Finance; Campaign Contributions; Small Donations; ActBlue; WinRed; TV Advertising; Political Elections; Finance; Demographics; Advertising; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science
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  • March 2024
  • Supplement

Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
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  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50897 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Gender and Price Knowledge on Auto-Repair Price Quotes By: Busse, Meghan, Ayelet Israeli, and Florian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • News

A Wide Net

Wave’s interest in India. “You’ve got the youngest population of its kind on the planet and a middle class almost the size of Europe and the USA put together. It's also a country that's approaching the bottom of the S-Curve; at... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

other research here . Related Themes: Credit Markets, Size & Growth of the Financial Sector More Info Bubbles for Fama By: Robin Greenwood , Andrei Shleifer & Yang You FEB 2017 Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama once famously stated that stock... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

or has declined in recent years. In contrast, demand for social skills has jumped significantly, the study results show. Complex work requires new skills The authors found that demand for social skills depended on the size of firms, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

around leadership and working in groups.   During FIELD 2, students are put into teams and work with a company in an emerging market on a business problem. FIELD 2 culminates with students going in country for a little over a week. FIELD... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

market size can be defended. The significant variation I find in bond market size and creditor protections over 150 years does not support the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

market/customer. Define your category/industry. Describe their pain points and willingness to pay and adopt. Define total market size and the expected growth [x%] by [year]. If B2B, may identify... View Details
  • Web

Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

culture of greater competitiveness in the investment banking business itself with the potential for increased algorithmic trading strategies, volume of business, and potential commissions. “Investment banking, which had historically built its reputation and View Details
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

listen to podcasts like Reboot or Masters of Scale. Put your ego aside! Managing is hard, let alone learning how to do it when you’re also trying to launch a company. From 20-30 employees. The best practice for team size is eight... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne