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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town hall at a time—or even just one...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
people have thought about the mobility industry.” She described the concept as “Park it. Plug it. Profit.” Fermata Energy is the first company to be commercially deployed in the U.S. for light-duty vehicles, the first to earn UL 9741...
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- 24 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Internship In Action
different teams including Buyers, Seller Relationship Managers, Product Managers, and Developers. I now have a very good understanding of how much effort and resources go behind every single button we press on any website or mobile...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
a variety of dynamic, in-demand work engagements). But many times, the greatest ideas arise out of opportunity. And often, the best businesses are created to address a market gap. In this case, it was both. Cheney had spent six years post...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
response to unexpected endogenous or exogenous threats to meeting work goals. Managers employed two distinct forms of redundant communication to mobilize team members toward mitigating potentially threatening discrepant events—unforeseen...
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- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network communication, said Susan K. DelBene, vice president of marketing,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
million in revenue in 2013, up from $58 million in 2012. And it touts a Net Promoter Score—a customer-satisfaction indicator—in the low 80s, saying it is "significantly higher than Apple and Amazon, and nearly 50 points higher than phone carriers." But naturally, the...
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Creighton Taylor
me to business, because as a business person, you need to adapt to new environments quite a bit.” Even as Creighton majored in music in college, he nurtured his interest in numbers. After graduation, he spent three years in a variety of sales and View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Andrei, and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract—In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users who join a given platform. In this paper, we distinguish two ways in which rational expectations can be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
may develop? "There is this general sense that if you are going to come up with a great creative idea that moves the market in some sector, you better do it for me rather than my competitor," says Silk. While "exclusivity"—one agency, one...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
world spends $523 billion a year subsidizing fossil fuels as against $88 billion a year to renewables. But of course we shouldn't be subsidizing —or mandating —any fuel directly! If we were to mobilize the private sector by creating a...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
significantly more on upfront marketing than non-pioneers. Contrary to expectations, however, firms in markets that exhibited increasing returns did not spend more on their early customer acquisition efforts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price...
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- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
officials convened events to involve companies in their region. Today, in the aftermath of market quakes and earthquakes, America needs another national campaign, this time to mobilize big companies to power...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
other organization." Austin's hope for these new alliances is that "greater interaction will result in productive two-way learning: corporations can be enriched by finding out how nonprofits mobilize and motivate personnel, while...
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Nancy O. Perry