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- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
and its customers. The electronic ink technology produced by the company E Ink is an essential component of electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's NOOK. But it is an input... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
the trade journal Inland Printer proclaimed the critical new role of printing in advertising: “The manufacturer once made everything in one shop, and sold to everybody near him. The consumer . . . must now use the products of numerous and remote manufacturers. . . .... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 224. 17 Bruce Barton, “The Public,” Printers’ Ink , December 12, 1935, 20. 18 The Chicago District office, for example,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
was nothing but red ink from 1989 to 1993. Managers signed up for CAP training as a last resort in 1994. By the end of the year the business was breaking even. In 1995 net income was $18 million and the company was on solid footing for... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
much attention your brand gets. I wouldn't go so far as to say that any ink is good ink, but you can extend your brand exposure the more you're part of the conversation. Kenny: Who has been the most consistent advertiser on the Super... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
This just in. Turk Turkee is history. No more appearances on YouTube. No more plugs on CNBC. No more ink from BusinessWeek or the Boston Globe. No more Facebook site called “HBS Students for the Removal of the Turkey.” Rumor has it that,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Luke Henesy
through the machine; there were eight perfect scores, not one student had failed, and the class average was an 86. So, I got the tattoo. Each morning in the bathroom when I rub my eyes, I'm greeted by the composition of inverse functions in dark green View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
cared about how to make it happen," Wilcox says. "I adopted the dream and it became my dream too." Wilcox first saw Joe Jacobson and Jerry Rubin's electronic ink dream in 1997. He discovered the two MIT Media Lab professors through the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Every seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour far too much ink on the numbers—and far too little on the information that really... View Details
Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman
- Portrait Project
Sarah Assayag
constraints that bind grown-ups' imaginations. Keep at all times the ability to be inspired as much from the spirit within as the lights around you, letting the pen pause to ask questions, and the paper fold to absorb the wonders of the world. Dream on, before the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Peter Park
seen since the day she joined our studio: an opportunity to turn life around for herself and her children. Out of the fresh blue ink of Iminza's signature emerged a wholly unexpected moment of self-expression which reminded us joyfully... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
health plans would penalize their members for hard-won concessions from employers. Given the torrent of ink and days of air time devoted to both topics, HBS professor Regina Herzlinger offers a refreshing alternative. She sees no need for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
listening is done in the car. “Distribution ubiquity and that ease of use—what radio has always been—is what we’re after,” says Kennedy, who has inked deals with major automakers to integrate Pandora into their vehicles. To date, 125... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
recalls Fung, who had planned, like most of his classmates, to work in the United States. So it was with some reluctance in July 1972, with the ink barely dry on his diploma, that Fung answered a call from his mother to return to Hong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni competition totaled more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
From the book Kryptonim “Wasale,” by Łukasz Kamiński From the book Kryptonim “Wasale,” by Łukasz Kamiński Waldemar Maj (MBA 1996) shivered in the dark Warsaw alley and wedged his body further into a crevice in the building wall. At his feet was a suitcase filled with... View Details
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Negotiation - Course Catalog
success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute... View Details