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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

they'd like to have some very low-risk assets like cash and fixed income and — rather than worry about the public-equity markets — barbell that with much higher-risk assets, such as private equity, real estate, and hedge funds. How would... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 22 Aug 2020
  • News

Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

“We’ve taken so many good things from them,” Beck tells the podcast. “They have technology infrastructure that we don’t have. They have incredible financial infrastructure. We’ve piggybacked onto some of their relationships with digital... View Details
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying, and build technological and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using both broad cross-sectional and narrow event-window tests, we find that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2018
  • Case

Tapping Growth at Lord Hobo Brewing Company

By: Ethan Rouen and Susanna Gallani
Lord Hobo Brewing Company accounts for its inventory process as it prepares to create its first set of professional financial statements for investors. View Details
Keywords: Inventory; Start-ups; Craft Brewing; Investing; GAAP; Brand Management; Accounting; Working Capital; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston; New England; United States
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  • September–October 2020
  • Article

Managing Churn to Maximize Profits

By: Aurelie Lemmens and Sunil Gupta
Customer defection threatens many industries, prompting companies to deploy targeted, proactive customer retention programs and offers. A conventional approach has been to target customers either based on their predicted churn probability or their responsiveness to a... View Details
Keywords: Churn Management; Defection Prediction; Loss Function; Stochastic Gradient Boosting; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Profit
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  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Reviving Entrepreneurship

New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights

analytics for startups and small businesses. It is a very dynamic environment; I spent half of last year leading a new product launch (from customer discovery to creating marketing collateral) and the rest of the time on hiring, strategy,... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

for peace, justice, and tolerable taxes. This paper defines capitalism as a system of indirect governance for economic relationships, where all markets exist within institutional frameworks that are provided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

sector mortgage market without any government backing. Why don’t you favor that approach? The vast majority of mortgage credit can be provided by the private sector without government guarantees. But given the systemic risk associated... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 14 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

no inherent antipathy between global capitalism and nationalism. It's definitely true that globalization has tended to produce reactions within societies, sometimes against it, much the same way that economic historian Karl Polanyi... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2012
  • Article

Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending

By: Jill Avery
I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. Consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's... View Details
Keywords: Brands; Brand Building; Brand Equity; Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Gender; Identity; Customer Focus and Relationships; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • March 2017
  • Supplement

Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on investor reactions to accounting choice in the context of accounting for business combinations. Using a sample of 324 recent stock swap acquisitions I find that, contrary to practitioners' belief that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1993 (Revised November 1993)
  • Case

FCB and Publicis (A): Forming the Alliance

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Two of the largest ad agencies form a partnership to be able to offer their clients global capabilities. After five years, how is the alliance faring? May be used with FCB and Publicis (B): Managing Client and Country Diversity and (C): The German-Led Network. View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Globalized Firms and Management; Advertising; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Market Timing; Outcome or Result; Advertising Industry; United States; France; Germany
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    Jeno F. Paulucci

    Paulucci founded Jeno’s Frozen Pizza to capitalize on the growing acceptance of frozen foods as alternatives for dinner. While there were many regional frozen pizza offerings, there was no national brand. Through low cost production... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    CGLV Plenary Session

    academia and focused on executive compensation, limits to board effectiveness, capital market intermediaries, and management education. A principal goal of CGLV is to encourage specific actions that will... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 17 Jul 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

    As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George