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upright poles topped by signs, with some chairs at their bases. During the extraordinary “bull” market of the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange began reassessing its capacity to handle ever increasing amounts of business and moved from... View Details

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By: Ashley V. Whillans

Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

Media outlets large and small have adopted digital paywalls to augment dramatic declines in print revenues, but given their negative effect on website traffic (and, in turn, online advertising), are paywalls an effective sales strategy? A new study that incorporates... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

03 Oct 2011
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Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

patent for a light-polarizing sheet. In New York, Land met Helen Maislen, known as Terre, who had studied under Clarence Kennedy, an art historian at Smith College, and the two married in 1929. Land returned to Harvard and continued his... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Research - Health Care

health care delivery: rapidly growing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate and unequal access to primary and other types of care. However, if retailers and health systems were to form strong... Load More Initiative Leadership... View Details

18 Jun 2018
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Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry over whether soda companies can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

the firm to shift from a "product and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. Conditions in the two markets determine... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

ecosystem to demystify what capital markets are doing. The key to understanding these varied players is to first understand that financial markets are trying to solve the deep underlying problem of modern... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Jun 2009
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GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

auto market in the 1950s. The industry leader, unbothered by competition and looming threats, began to coast on its former glory, however, and bypass such areas as consumer preferences and industry innovation. By February 2009, GM's View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The remaining... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

significance of globalization by taking a much-publicized gamble in relatively untested markets such as India and China. In 1997, getting out in front of the industry's move toward consolidation, he helped negotiate a $10 billion merger... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

representing the media and marketing industries. The IAB website includes industry news and its own research and insights. News/Media Alliance Primary advocate and voice for the news and magazine industires.... View Details

February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
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SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool

By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn

The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of... View Details

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Gender; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Arts; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India

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16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

ads. But when this practice feels invasive to people, it can prompt a strong backlash. Marketers today need to understand where to the draw the line. The good news is that psychologists already know a lot about what triggers privacy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

and Entrepreneurial Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Global Climate Change (also listed under Strategy) Gunnar Trumbull Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Globalization and Emerging Markets Reshmaan Hussam Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Italy;... View Details

10 Nov 2003
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Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's stock had lost nearly one-third... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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