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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
parents, Andrew, his brother Jim, and cousin Jonathan run the company today. In an unusual arrangement, they share the top spot: Andrew and Jonathan serve as co-chairman of the board, and Jim is president and CEO. Under their leadership,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
onset of the crisis. PE-backed companies consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
over time and may be tempted to ape someone else's system, and so they will find it difficult to align different parts of the organization with shared priorities. As Corning, a leader in glass and materials science, has found, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
local workers who are deemed “climate refugees.” You can purchase them on her website. In the year and a half since her 2021 HBS graduation, Shelly has raised $1.2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round funded largely by customers who View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Systems Approach in Venezuela: Laying the Foundation for Shared Value in a Time of Crisis No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-014 Korea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
to determine what was best for the technology, the process has become increasingly pressurized and competitive - a trend Lerner attributes to industry response to success of companies like Qualcomm in the licensing market. (The company's technology licensing business... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
fast growth. "This is not an indictment of them," Christensen emphasized. "This is an absolutely normal progression of economic institutions as they become successful." In his remarks, Christensen shared his views on... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
500 times our money.” In the anecdotes that follow, alumni tell their own tales of a haunting “pass” and share the only return that came of it: some hard lessons learned. use this navigation to explore the anecdotes Don’t Be Dogmatic I... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
giant; Natura, a leader in Brazil's cosmetics arena; and China's Haier, which sells appliances in one of the world's most demanding markets. What these companies and others like them share is a distinct approach to innovation: they... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
spas, paintball parties, etc., at a major markdown—up to 90 percent off a retailer's usual prices—and then requiring the retailer to pay a big chunk of the voucher revenues back to Groupon. But the Chicago-based firm is "the fastest... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
difference between both kinds of firms is that OS share their technological advances on the primary good, while P keep their innovations private. The main contribution of the paper is to determine conditions under which OS and P coexist... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
can make or break it all. “Plus, in a world where people want to work from home and other companies offer that option, it’s difficult for us to ignore the market and what people want,” Lerner says. On the other hand, the founders have a View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
assessment and demonstrate strong inter-rater reliability. Results show that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessments are perceived as fair and accurate. Educators can leverage peer-to-peer sharing to enhance the assessment of class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 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