Northeastern United States - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

markets—and how market design made things better. Thickness:A classic example of a thickness problem is the process of helping nephrology patients in need of kidney transplants. In 2006, some 5,000 patients in the United View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

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Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge

Department of Economics; Joseph Gyourko from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto from the Universitat Pompeu. HBS Working Knowledge talked to Kerr about the state of the housing sector in a... View Details

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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024

renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet its state renewable energy requirements), natural gas used in boilers, cogeneration units... View Details

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-107 Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits in the United States This background... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

spending in the United States in 2015, up from $26 billion in 2010. Advertisers are steering the biggest share of their digital ad dollars—about half of all online ad expenditures—toward paid search.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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Policy - Business & Environment

on their pollution) [16] While the U.S. federal government has not yet caught up with shifts in public opinion, many other countries and some U.S. states and cities are advancing policies to achieve net zero emissions of GHG emissions by... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of private-equity deals is slowly increasing, but they are still at quite a low level by the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

of thing. You know, as we look around the world today, I'm wondering are there people who are able to step up and play that kind of a role? George: Well, in the business community today we have leaders with enormous courage. As you know, we have a very powerful... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

the United Kingdom, force turnover of their independent directors after nine years. That’s a policy that should be adopted here. The loss of experience would be outweighed by reduced cronyism. If a director were truly indispensable, he or... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Zvi Bodie. "Pension Benefit Guarantees in the United States: A Functional Analysis." In The Future of Pensions in the United States ,edited by Ray Schmitt. Philadelphia, Penn.:... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

multiplying its impact on management education, explained Nohria. Last year for the first time, over half of the new cases were about companies outside the United States. “These cases are being used not just here at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

manuals, "which gave the inexperienced airline 22 years of experience written down ... as formulas for success." In 1973, Southwest's head of marketing Jess Coker admitted as much when he stated that many of his airline's... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

01 Oct 2002
News

View from the Top

taught me the power of listening and of trust. Mühlemann: I've learned the value of teamwork. Wagoner: I've learned about the critical importance of providing consistent direction over time. It takes a while for direction to translate through the organization and for... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details

Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul

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25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

the researchers looked at a representative cross section of 3,260 firms between 1998 and 2006 that are publicly traded and have their headquarters in the United States. Their first finding was that—contrary to the image of hordes of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

presentation, "Management Matters in Health Care," which proved, using data from randomly selected hospitals in seven countries, including the United States, that it absolutely does. Her research showed a definitive link between... View Details