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- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape public opinion and policies. But as... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Fast Answer
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. ... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications company, has rejected the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
quantitative easing affected the mortgage market in the years following the financial crisis. Purchases of mortgage-backed securities had a big effect on the supply of mortgages to households across America—but with an important catch... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
to the ideal of entrepreneurship itself rather than to a single business model or product. That flexibility helps them react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and business models that aren’t working. 2. Look for problems to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
initial filter on not only the market size of each opportunity but also whether or not the products could be used in single-player mode--that is, users could find value from using the product even if they... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
five million. We currently maintain a phenomenal service, but I know that we won’t be able to market ourselves to double or triple the size we are today: We must continue to create entirely new ways of... View Details
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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog
are taking leading roles in private and public market investing, early-stage venture investing, policymaking, impact investing, and philanthropic organizations. Thus, the field placement will also serve as an opportunity to harvest... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team. Before coming to HBS, I lived in New York City where I worked in integrated marketing for VH1. During my time at... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
storytelling. While metrics and market size matter, investors need to believe in you as a founder and in your unique ability to solve the problem you’re tackling. In our case, it’s always been about... View Details
- 29 May 2017
- Blog Post
The Diverse Community at HBS
Before I came to HBS, I worked at Disney in a consumer insights role with the Corporate Brand Development and Studio Marketing teams. Tracking evolving consumer behaviors in entertainment was part of my job and I was fascinated by the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
marketing found among the most successful Asian firms in the study appears to hold true across the board - in consumer goods organizations, industrial firms, product companies, and service providers alike, without regard to the View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the IPO," Higgins says. Such downstream connections can be valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
content. The plan was to grow an audience of sufficient size to attract advertisers but, she says in retrospect, "It wasn't the right business model for me." Cynthia knew she wanted a positive cash flow business that could... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio, and print media to create advertisements for companies of all View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
or high potential markets that are $10 billion in size in any given year." The bigger the company becomes, he pointed out, the more important it is that the company lays out a very deliberate strategy.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Capital Association. When it comes to technology start-ups, Accel’s niche, Breyer ascribes the firm’s success to “a balance of people judgment, market intuition, as well as luck,” with luck sometimes claiming top billing. He candidly... View Details