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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
mortar retailers, Beck cut against the grain and decided to embrace both clicks and bricks. Bluemercury has a vast online clientele, but the brand’s larger revenue stream comes from its 60 retail outlets in 16 states around the country.... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
“batteries on wheels.” Fermata’s bidirectional vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charging platforms can turn electric vehicles (EVs) into revenue centers, extend the value of EV fleets and provide a solution to the electricity grid. As Claire... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
they are able to extract for themselves. Jet engine manufacturers, for example, typically sell their wares at little or no cost but generate substantial revenue from lucrative maintenance contracts. Monitoring relationship health, the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and redistribution through an asset light model. By pioneering Africa's foremost medical equipment-sharing marketplace, the platform ensures hospitals can... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings with their medical providers in real time. A year and a half after launching the program, the health system’s internal startup, innovationOchsner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and investing leaders in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as field research in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda. (Several students have shared insights from their field studies here: IFC Africa: Building Cities.) I believe the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
revenue is an important component of our economic model, we are not as reliant on it for our operating budget as a number of other schools may be. Collectively, though, these actions have meaningful implications for the School. Even small... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
task force to interview 250 key staff about the company's strengths and barriers to achieving a new direction. This engagement enabled our leaders to: forge demanding goals to which people were committed; create a community of shared... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
Much has been written about the long tail phenomenon in the entertainment industries. Long-tail enthusiasts claim that low-selling books, CDs, and movies, which are not available in brick-and-mortar stores, will collectively take up a majority View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
community? In the next fifty years, the current global economic and population balance will be turned on its head. Today’s rich countries will need to adjust to a significant drop in their share of the world’s income. As Africa’s View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
worked.” Paul also shares an anecdote that confirms the community-building potential of CORe. While working at a cyber security company this summer, he met a colleague who kept talking about a “cool Harvard Business School program.” Turns... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
ad platform, and reducing—from three to two—the number of major sellers of sponsored search advertising." The deal, characterized as a nonexclusive partnership, would allow Google to sell some search ads that display next to Yahoo search results. Yahoo says it... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
it evokes emotional memories that touch on all of our drives. Memories of a hot day when all you wanted to acquire was an ice-cold Coke; memories of your first date when you shared a Coke; memories of World War II when Coca-Cola became a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
to materialize. In 2014, Amazon had recorded a net loss of $241 million on revenues of $89 billion, in stark contrast to China’s leading Internet player Alibaba, which reported $3.9 billion of net income on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
Grants David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-087 Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but it has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price?in terms of an investor's required View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne