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Platform for Dialogue
My year at Harvard Business School as the Newcomen Fellow in Business History was transformative for my research, teaching, and outlook on scholarship for the twenty-first century. The fellowship not only provided me with unparalleled... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
existing products even if the quality of these existing products is well understood by consumers. The model provides an interpretation for the dependence of the success of brand extensions on the "fit" between the original... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) founded India’s largest telecom company, which has recently expanded into 17 African countries. This dynamic trio of Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973), Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), and Mark Fields (MBA 1989) exemplifies the challenges and View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
change in the business world. In addition, your financial support provides a margin for innovation, allowing us to move ahead on projects that keep HBS at the forefront of business education. Your commitment... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
what they want and when they don't. . . . In the case of a new cell phone, I don't know what I want. . . . Here's where companies make the mistake of competing on technical features for short-term gains instead of providing customers with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
their homes or at local restaurants around the world, MBA students working in the region during the summer between their first and second years have the opportunity to meet with alumni, forging connections around their shared HBS experience. “We’ve hosted students... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their lives. Titled Charting Your... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
MBA classroom to provide students with timely, real-world insights. Driven in part by the increasing circulation of its flagship publication, Harvard Business Review, HBP delivered revenue of $310 million. Fundamental to this growth has... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
later stages, with a model that rewards in the longer-term. The article also lays out the current challenges for solar, including the falling price of fossil fuels and the potential lack of political appetite for clean energy. But the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
year,” he recalls. “I made a note of it, and then came back to it in my second year. I led a field study on the problem with Professor Walter Salmon.” Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the problem of inventory loss but that, owing to the thin View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
cofounder and president, Deena Malkina (MBA 2008), offered this case study query to alumni: “KitNipBox is laser-focused on differentiating its brand by sourcing the most unique, high-quality products on the market, committing to healthy and natural goods, being... View Details
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Partners & Families | MBA
HBS Student Association strives to create an invaluable and rewarding MBA experience for students and partners. Partners are welcome at all events! The Student Association includes a Chief Families Officer and a Chief Partners Officer,... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst compensation being designed to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman discusses the paper's findings. Key concepts include: Discount vouchers provide price discrimination, letting merchants attract consumers who would not ordinarily patronize their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
overlooks the fact that managers don’t always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual- reporting system can be costly to investors. Indeed, research shows just that:... View Details