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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
find that changes in the local business landscape is a leading indicator of housing price changes and that the entry of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
(1839-1937), one of the most remarkable individuals to define the landscape of American business. Rockefeller's estimated $1.4 billion net worth in 1937 was equivalent to 1.5% of U.S. GDP. According to this metric he was (and still is)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
landscape for more than half a century, are too familiar to cause worry. But the rapid growth of these funds in recent years and their role in a few high-profile transactions have called attention to them and inflamed public anxieties....
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
community, people can align themselves around a shared sense of purpose,” says Hill. Such was the case with Luca de Meo, who became head of marketing for Volkswagen (VW) in 2010. When he surveyed the landscape internationally, de Meo...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to live up to them, one that thoughtfully positions itself within the greater landscape of business, government, and society at large. Doesn’t that motivate employees to be at their best? Companies face choices, and their managements must...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy target in the mismatch between...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
China: Driving in the Gray Zone (B) Starting in 2014, for two years Uber had fought an intense, costly battle for China’s ridesharing market with well-financed and well-connected domestic Chinese competitors. During this time, Uber also had to respond to an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
productivity. Ideally, you need to make your technical staff aware of the tradeoffs and the technical/competitive landscape without building barriers to creativity. One thing is to appoint a technical gatekeeper that will keep close watch...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets and the larger global banking system to the...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
the educational aspects of computing. OLPC has made a difference already because it changed the landscape in terms of dreams and expectations. Observers can see what makes the goal of one laptop per child difficult to achieve. Says...
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- 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...
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by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic is the decision-making around office space? Maria Roche: I think there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting...
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- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
challenges you encounter because of the timing and the landscape in which you are starting the business. There is also the business model and the opportunity. What we’re doing with Vessel is actually very different than what we did with...
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- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
lot of the concepts we learned in TOM (RC class Technology and Operations Management) about bottlenecks to ensure that our clients were quickly attended to.” Adding to the challenge of managing their volunteer team was the evolving View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
and Amazon are the established players in this new frontier—but the number of upstart media companies vying for viewers means that the landscape could look completely different down the road. “It’s a gold rush,” says HBS senior lecturer...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as possible to the new competitive...
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