Sophistication - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

technical, regulatory, and economic. Advances in technology, which enhance existing advertising capabilities and create new ones, reach well beyond the Internet and include things such as innovative new software, sophisticated data... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

29 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

their stuff embarrasses them. Their Range Rovers no longer tell the world that they are sophisticated town and country socialites. There are simply too many of them on the road to offer much social status. Worse, they now signal the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

testing and implementing quantitative strategies could become much easier. That could make it tougher for quant managers by introducing more competition, or it could help them by introducing less sophisticated competition. It's too soon... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

investment lifecycle. Access via SSO - HBS email and Harvard Key login name/email must match. Email infoservices@hbs.edu if you have trouble accessing Pitchbook. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people.... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

business, needs financing" so a vendor, for example, can pay for inventory. Radical Youth, Then Wall Street Chu's own background makes him uniquely situated to bridge the worlds of abject poverty and sophisticated finance. A... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a critical mass of sophisticated production and service activities reside. A clear locational core, combined with selective... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

they lend themselves to the risk of hype behind their projections. Most space SPACs crashed in value as soon as they went public, so many investors got a real sense that space is a dangerous place to invest. But, when you talk to people who are View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

01 Feb 1997
News

Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

Profile

John Speer

As only the 245th pilot combat-qualified to fly the B-2 Stealth Bomber, John Speer was part of an elite group that flew the most sophisticated strategic bomber ever built. But in 2011, he had reached “the decision point” of his Air Force... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)

art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

can be harnessed for future breeding activities. Consistent & high-quality products at Koppert Cress (beautiful and tasty!). Image source: The authors Input optimization. Van den Ende employs a highly sophisticated greenhouse,... View Details

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

Internet2 was born. Today, sophisticated networks are being hooked up today among Europe, North and South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Cisco and Microsoft are involved "in a big way," Nolan said. Right now, Internet2 is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
News

Case Study: Sweat the Technique

version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

European disintegration. As a committed European, I firmly declare my ardent hope that British voters will see the light. Nevertheless, even in the best case of a vote to remain in the EU, the strong arguments that sophisticated... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

20 May 2019
Blog Post

Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

distinctive makeup kit, and created a YouTube channel dedicated to application techniques. “I considered it something I just like to do, not a job,” says Kenya. Years earlier, in a middle school dance class, she had discovered the power of View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

deposits and withdrawals. Five were turned into "financial centers," spacious, relaxed outlets where customers would have access to the trained staff and advanced technologies required for sophisticated services such as stock... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

heterogeneity in consumer sophistication could explain the prevalence and persistence of misconduct at such firms. Misconduct is concentrated at firms with retail customers and in counties with low education, elderly populations, and high... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

manufacturing, after all, is consumed domestically. The more sophisticated and organized the domestic consumer base becomes, the easier it will be for China to move into high-quality areas of production. In a real sense, consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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