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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
reunion program and how the School might facilitate this. The online products and services subcommittee, chaired by Rich Shapack (MBA ’71), found that few alumni were aware of the current online offerings of databases and resources. Its recommendation was to ramp up a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
proven business tactic. For every newsworthy instance of a corporation putting profit ahead of social good, there are multiple unheralded examples of companies using social good-oriented initiatives to expand their markets or enhance... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
sustainability entrepreneur with a background in marketing and environmental management, laid out the facts of the global climate crisis and made clear that the speed of drone reforesting can play a critical role in stemming a climate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
profits of competing platforms in a market of fixed size are decreasing in the fraction of sophisticated users. When market expansion is introduced, the fraction of... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
just on clicks and not on calls and direction requests, I’d be less inclined to think that Yelp ads work for these businesses.” Ad effectiveness best for small businesses In recent years, internet advertising has become the fastest-growing View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
global product divisions, which, because of the size of the market and Philips's stake in it, are thought to be capable of achieving the requisite geographic focus. In Europe, where Philips is better... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
exception. Yet providers and payers continue to try to stymie competition. Many are actively pursuing consolidation, buying up market share, and increasing their bargaining power. In this article, the authors argue that health care payers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
the role third parties play was inadequate in describing the processes at work in the highly specialized CEO market. The size of the candidate pool, for instance, is often underestimated. If you believe most search firms, in fact, it's a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
Generation manages to do the appropriate level of due diligence in emerging markets that lack transparency. Another wondered how Generation’s practice of sometimes holding investments for only a short time meshed with its commitment to... View Details