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09 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet The HBS Sound Society

Sound Society has had a busy first year. 2015-2016 saw the club established with the goal of establishing more of a music presence on campus. What started out as simply having music playing at TGIFs or providing DJs for some of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

31 Jul 2017
News

Amid the ongoing ‘retail apocalypse,’ outlet malls seek ways to stay afloat

January 2016 (Revised May 2016)
Case

IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna, Jérôme Lenhardt and Marc Homsy

A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks criticism of IKEA from the Swedish government and its customers in the West. Critics contend that IKEA is not living up to its own commitments to... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Values; Islam; Multinationals; Globalization; Leadership; Equality and Inequality; Multinational Firms and Management; Religion; Organizational Culture; Gender; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; Sweden

13 Apr 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector

Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal; Energy

January 2014 (Revised June 2014)
Supplement

23andMe: Genetic Testing for Consumers (B)

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

Following the FDA's letter in November 2013, which ordered 23andMe to cease sales of its DNA test kits, observers wondered how co-founder and CEO, Anne Wojcicki, would guide the company in the presence of uncertainty. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Genetics; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Biotechnology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States

19 Apr 2016
News

3 Unexpected Ways Good Posture Can Change Your Mood

March 2023
Case

MrBeast: Building a YouTube Empire

By: Anita Elberse and Oliver Band

Wednesday November 16, 2022 was a historic day in the ascent of Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, to the top echelon of YouTube creators. That day he became the YouTuber with the most subscribers ever—a total of 112 million. The meteoric rise of the 24-year-old... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Power and Influence; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

30 May 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Sound Society

Student clubs are a vibrant part of student life at HBS. With more than 70 different options to choose from, there’s something for everyone. Except, sometimes, there’s not. When Jeff Zeller and Sofia Pietrella arrived at HBS, they felt there was a lack of musical View Details

2011
Working Paper

Do U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

By: Joseph J. Gerakos, Joseph D. Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan

This paper examines the extent that interactions with U.S. markets impact the compensation practices of non-U.S. firms. Using a sample of large U.K. companies, we find that the total compensation of U.K. CEOs is positively related to the extent of the firm's... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Management Practices and Processes; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States

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24 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

program and are building out a social media presence to support your branding efforts. But what strategy has been put in place to leverage that social media presence to attract the right talent? Creating a... View Details

15 Jun 2015
News

Target to sell its drugstores to CVS for $1.9b

11 May 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Microsoft

HBS?It is of the utmost importance to be responsive and transparent to candidates about timelines. A recruiter must be a student’s advocate and must possess a thorough understanding of every student’s short and long-term career goals and passions. Alumni View Details

Keywords: Technology

January 2008 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Microsoft adCenter

By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman

Microsoft considers alternatives to expand its presence in online advertising, especially text-based pay-per-click advertising. Google dominates, and it is unclear how Microsoft can grow, despite considerable technical and financial resources. Microsoft considers a set... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition; Advertising Industry

28 Jan 2014
News

HBS Working Paper Sparks Discussion About Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

03 Mar 2021
News

Return-to-Office Plans Are Set in Motion, but Virus Uncertainty Remains

Research Summary

Structural Breaks in Dynamic Factor Models: Representation and Testing (with James Stock and Mark Watson)

We demonstrate the equivalence of various of structural break representations for approximate dynamic factor models and show that even in the presence of such breaks, the estimated factors consistently span the fundamental factor subspaces. We propose tests to... View Details

July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Nomura Securities, 2002

By: Tarun Khanna and David Lane

In 2002, Nomura, though long the market leader in Japan, lacked global presence and was beset at home by strengthened local competitors, Wall Street firms that were taking the best deals, outdated systems, controls, and staff skills. Was Nomura still a player to fear?... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Local Range; Global Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan