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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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Review of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia by Lawrence Peter King
By: Doug Guthrie
Guthrie, Doug. "Review of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia by Lawrence Peter King." Administrative Science Quarterly 46, no. 2 (June 2001).
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
View Video Peter James Kiernan (MBA 2022) has been selected as the student speaker for Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Class Day celebration, held this year on Wednesday, May 25. Class Day honors graduating students, and typically takes... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains require is provided View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
counting on to drive sales over the next few years might not be forthcoming. Corporate downsizing is hardly anything new. Indeed, in recent years it has often been management's tool of choice for improving competitiveness. Ironically, new research View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Connecting with Clubs
by interacting with Alumni Relations, and by attending the annual club Officers’ Roundtable meeting at HBS. As an Alumni Board member, and now as board president, I know my experience with the clubs in... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Strategic Foresight as Dynamic Capability: A New Lens on Knightian Uncertainty
Keywords: by J. Peter Scoblic
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
membership in HBS clubs and associations. Our committee work has examined a number of School-supported efforts designed to engage alumni and students. The Student Outreach Committee, chaired by Bennie Wiley (MBA ’72), has recommended ways... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
behalf. A great place to start is the HBS Global Leadership Forum held last June 21–23 in London. It was the latest in a series of global events initiated more than a decade ago by the Alumni Board and was initially called the Global... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
management process. One study, completed in collaboration with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan, addresses the strategy design and implementation phase of the process by exploring how buyer-seller relationships function in a... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Seated before a computer with an Internet link, consumers today can flip through an estimated 800 million Web pages of public information by merely clicking a mouse. Add to this that television, now in 98 percent of American homes, is... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
to expand their market power through vertical and horizontal integration," Silk explains. Within the media industry, a central fact is that its many actors, from venerable big-city dailies to the hottest Internet sites, are competing for a limited pool of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
climate, customer orientation, and innovation. "Corporate culture was perceived as the prevailing set of shared values held by a firm's managers," Deshpandé explains, "qualities such as loyalty and tradition. We defined climate as the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
constellation of brilliant, talented individuals, each held in place by countervailing forces that both pull inward and push outward. Executive "stars" are attracted and held to an organization by their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
informal surveys conducted by an Alumni Board committee, most alumni are not aware of the School’s many offerings. A classic marketing conundrum? Yes! While the School works on sharpening the message of what’s available and how to access... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Committee in Washington, chaired by Charles Rossotti (MBA 1964) and coordinated by Julie Wolinsky (MBA 1998). Congratulations to Senior Associate Dean Mal Salter (now retired!), who served as faculty chair;... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
When he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1990 with a degree in aerospace engineering, Eric Feagler (MBA 2001) had already been accepted by the Navy’s elite flight training program. After a brief postgraduation return to... View Details