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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
President Nixon, took over as head of Lehman Brothers. His restructuring of the firm, including reducing the number of employees and expanding its financial services, resulted in record revenues. Under... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
(the quintessential two-sided platform) must serve both men and women. Q: Please give some examples of these markets. A: Examples are pervasive in today's economy and range from dating clubs (men and women), financial exchanges, real... View Details
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Jana Kierstead | About
Executive Director, Jana leads a team of over 300 full-time professionals who manage the lifelong relationship students have with the School, from admissions and financial aid to student life and career services to reunions and lifelong... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on research in the financial View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
systems to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world's fourth largest dairy cooperative. Finance I Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun Key concepts: Return on Investment, Financial... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
The U.S. Job Search for International Students
given student’s unique career vision, they are going to utilize different approaches to the job search, and a lot of this revolves around timing. Some companies, typically the large MBA employers – such as large consulting, financial... View Details
- October 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
The Transformation of Thomson
By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith
Thomson, a French multinational, went through a decade of dramatic change in the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; France
Collis, David J., and Troy Smith. "The Transformation of Thomson." Harvard Business School Case 708-428, October 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
At the end of June 2022, a video was posted on TikTok with the theme, “I know Victoria’s secret.” The secret was that Victoria was “an old man who lives in Ohio making money off of girls like me cashing in on body issues.” The song was written by Jax, a digital View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
majestic Mediterranean-style clubhouse. On a nearby practice green, a solitary figure, virtually unnoticed, rolls 40-foot putts up to the pin as the fans and media stream by. It's last year's Open winner, Steve Jones. In an ordinary year,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
sectors beyond the original bath soap category. The development causes the brand team to take a fresh look at the clichés of the beauty industry. The result is the controversial Real Beauty campaign. As the campaign unfolds, Unilever learns to use the Internet, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
taking action. Although there is a strong moral and ethical case for organizations to address physician burnout, financial principles (e.g., return on investment) can also be applied to determine the economic cost of burnout and guide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
as your markets change. In subscription-based businesses like software and many consumer web services, sales activities with high variance and impact early on are about customer acquisition. But as the market matures, key activities tend... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
resource for executives and managers at all levels seeking to brush up on their knowledge of macroeconomic dynamics. Information or Opinion? Media Bias as Product Differentiation Authors:Bharat Anand, Rafael Di Tella, and Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Singapore Competitiveness Report
By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo
The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
Ketels, Christian H.M., Ashish Lall, and Boon Siong Neo. "Singapore Competitiveness Report." Asia Competitiveness Institute, Singapore, November 2009.
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
movements began to be slowly dismantled. The advent of floating exchange rates permitted a huge explosion in international financial markets from the 1970s, but these capital flows were different than before 1914, for they largely... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
David A. Thomas
David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He recently served as a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
By: Jill Avery and Jim Rosenberg
Digital was on Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Programs Bridget Coughlin's mind these days. DMNS had been dabbling in digital for the past few years, but had never fully committed to it. The time had come to establish a strategic vision, and to decide... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Nonprofit; Arts; Education; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Media; Education Industry; North America; United States
Avery, Jill, and Jim Rosenberg. "Denver Museum of Nature & Science." Harvard Business School Case 315-081, June 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
speculation. How to follow the ‘stimmy’ money There’s no direct way to track how stimulus funds went from American pockets into the market, so researchers looked at a wide range of signals, including surveys, US Census and Treasury data, social View Details