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04 May 2023
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Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

and Trademark Office—when nonstop flights increase by 10 percent. The firms that benefitted most from nonstop flights tended to be bigger innovators overall, with more inventor stock and higher R&D spending. Many of these companies... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2002
News

Books

until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of how much electronic currency to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2024
Supplement

Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kenneth P. Pucker and Stacy Straaberg

The Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (B) case encourages students to assess Allbirds’ product development and go-to-market strategies now that Allbirds is a publicly listed company. The (B) case provides a 2024 update on Allbirds including its initial public offering,... View Details

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Purchase

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

26 Jan 2016
News

The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)

before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such thing)? “We have an office space... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Ronald P. Mitchell

deficits," says the genial second-year student. As president of the Student Association (SA), one of Mitchell's primary tasks was to bring concessions - student-run businesses offering goods and services such as stationery supplies and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Herlihy (MBA 1981) (Gerard A. Herlihy) A satire about another out-of-control commodity and stock market boom. Blowing Smoke: Essays on Energy and Climate by Rud Istvan (MBA 1974) (Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.) From the... View Details

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

on moral grounds, since they don’t feel they did anything wrong. The problem is a big one for stock photo agencies—not just because of loss of revenue but also because unchecked abuse cuts into future business by motivating some violators... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

01 Dec 2013
News

Case Study: Citizen Buffett

long been a focus of my own research." The case outlines the events that led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

commerce remained difficult to draw,” cultural historian Jackson Lears argues. “In many homes, advertisements became the chief means of brightening a dreary visual environment.” 20 Printers offered an array of View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

Upon the deal's completion, the group committed $500 million to make Lopez's quality-over-quantity vision a reality. And in December 2013, the company raised $355 million with an IPO that made headlines by offering members of its AMC... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

stocks and mutual funds. An "investment bar" offered personal computers where the customer could do her banking, check her investment portfolio, or just surf the Internet. There were comfortable... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong disincentives to offer shorter lead times, even if lead time reduction came at no cost. This paper investigates a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

meetings offer more than just an opportunity to receive an introduction to management," the authors state in the study. The Impact Of Meetings In analyzing the trading behavior of investors, Solomon and Soltes found a strong correlation... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

18 Oct 2016
First Look

October 18, 2016

and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

And while the role offered Howard the opportunity to apply her company-building skills, the company’s mission, “democratizing finance for all” was the main draw. “Knowing from my prior career experience just how many people don’t feel... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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