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15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

rotate them, and the sophistication of the energy generation process were all palpable in this encounter. To see an operational wind turbine early in the trip was great context for many of the subsequent visits that explored individual... View Details

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

methods, compared to statistics, of being stored in the brain, but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,” he tells the class. “It allows... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as a successful retailer; in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

the mid-19th century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to the fourth-largest investment banking house in the country. HBS Entrepreneurs Collection In 2001, Harvard Business School... View Details

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

more from a wishful conversation over cocktails than the classic Aha! moment often associated with compelling concepts. Being part of the Millennial generation that has embraced craft beers and innovative cocktails, the pair wondered... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

I Gave at the Office

the spectrum, and then everyone else is in between. Certainly, we’d like to try to shift the distribution of generosity toward the generous side. To do so, I often ask: How do people develop excuses not to give? Then I try to explore ways... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

Often my classmates and I would consider not going to class if we had somehow not read the case for fear of embarrassing ourselves. This was truer for Walt’s marketing class than for any others. But more than the tremendous respect he View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

and a prominent addiction psychiatrist and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Research Program—explained the challenges to his son, whose background was in the video-game industry. In study after study,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Dec 2019
News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S. retailer who adds a new retail... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

store customers or trading them to urban wholesalers and jobbers for needed supplies. Bartering reduced storekeepers' dependence on currency. It also created informal distribution networks for locally produced goods. For instance,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

conditions on sequence memory. In addition, conscious thought appeared to increase intrusion nowness and arousal. Limitations. The analogue design and healthy participant sample prevent from generalizing results to other populations.... View Details