Industrial Organization, Industrial Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

into the VC industry but that we also retain those currently in it.” —Madeline Keulen (MBA 2019), vice president, Victress Capital Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, general trends on gender diversity were moving, slowly, in the right... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Sep 2008
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Alumni Books

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb to... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

Venture Incubation Program. Fast forward several months and much web development later, and now LS offers a B2B SaaS product that can transform any website from a static display of content into an interactive experience, fully... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

“Entering an industry that was entirely mom-and-pop,” he says, “we found the auxiliary services around it were also non-organized.” Singh saw an opportunity to create a national chain that would offer a consistent patient experience while... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

She'd say that he was worth 4,000 pounds a year. That's how we usually think of our standard of living." Merton says we're used to the mutual fund industry as a vehicle for getting to our retirement goal, yet few of us have a deep... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription

physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

October 2015
Article

Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

By: Karthik Ramanna

A manager decides whether he should hide his sexual orientation for an overseas assignment. View Details

Keywords: Case Studies; Career Advancement; Leadership Development; Globalization; Technology Industry; Korean Peninsula; United States

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04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns? By: Froot, Kenneth A., Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik, and Ronnie... View Details

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

that even in this case, there would be people developing and using Linux. The more important question is: What motivates developers to contribute to open source projects in the first place? As long as the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

the SX-70 camera, Polavision, and sonar focusing An Invention that Controls Light Edwin Land describes the invention that launched Polaroid The Vectograph Polaroid developed a type of 3-D photography for use in World War II A Simple... View Details

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

less risky for smaller firms to compete and easier for Chinese merchants and compradors to become brokers. “Chinese would similarly displace Westerners in many areas of economic enterprise as they gained skills and developed modern... View Details

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business, by David Mamet “My penchant is for building brands that find a place in the customer’s mind and for developing businesses that live or die by how well they connect with the consumer.”... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals

stress-free time off. But his first real experiment in using time off for hypothesis-testing was going to business school. At HBS, he wanted to test whether he should work in international development and live abroad, or work in... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

Development has gathered best practices from companies who crafted remote internships for the first time in 2020, and those who have managed virtual teams for years. Using these strategies and tools will help set your company up for an... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

coincidence that Tierney is also co-founder with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) of The Bridgespan Group, an organization launched in 1999 that provides management consulting and leadership development services to nonprofits, philanthropists,... View Details

08 May 2012
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Screen Saver

between what he learned at HBS and his day-to-day duties at the JBFC. “I went from negotiating a $6.5 billion transaction to a $4.5 million industrial development bond,” says Apkon, who will publish a book... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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