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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
immediately became a bestseller, with total sales exceeding 1 million copies by mid-1964. Often credited with kick-starting a range of governmental actions in the United States and abroad, including the Clean Water Act and the founding of... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
divisions or countries; many moved overseas where they became general managers. All were given line management experience early on. They were placed into "mini-CEO jobs," as they called them, at a very young age (late twenties).... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
profitable across the whole value chain. As the percent of retail sales associated with promotions increases over time, improving the effectiveness and the efficiency of promotional spending will continue to be of utmost importance. It is... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
findings call attention to the informal, everyday practices that generate state capacity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46981 Elite Ideas and Incremental Policy Change: The Expansion of Primary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
have been and what was still possible for someone like Nasaru. Hanna: You also got to witness that process in your church, when your church received a significant windfall from the sale of some real estate. And I wondered if you could... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
short, "The economic crisis in which the country now finds itself reflects not the failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system." Nonetheless, the panel's two... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for the market, and a View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
& Course MaterialsMutti Spa Alvarez, Jose B., Mary L. Shelman, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 513-034 Francesco Mutti, owner, CEO, and great-grandson of the founder of Mutti Spa, ran the 113-year old Parma, Italy-based tomato-processing company.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic expansion.” The pair turned out to be savvy managers. Within four... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
stand to benefit by saving time handling appointments, referrals and the like. Quelch says he recently had to arrange an appointment with a specialist, was told by the specialist's office he needed a referral from the primary care physician, and was given a fax number.... View Details
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
The article concludes by suggesting that the stratdegies of business enterprises need to be more fully integrated into wider narratives of the history of globalization. August 2013 JMR, Journal of Marketing Research Positioning Brands Versus Large Competitors to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
in the mid-1950s, ADL called in Philip Donham (MBA '33), a Booz Allen consultant and son of former HBS Dean Wallace Donham, to help ADL determine its own future direction; Donham liked ADL and stayed on with the company. He would later... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Accounting Review The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how language barriers affect the capital market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Group Luca de Meo, chief marketing officer of Volkswagen Group, reflects on his time leading the marketing department at Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. In particular, he thinks about the environmental sustainability initiative launched by marketing View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big data obtained from Google Analytics and the company’s own sales and customer databases to select the next season’s assortment. Peck was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
In mid-February 2009, Dubai Duty Free Managing Director Colm McLoughlin received the January sales report. He left the report lying on his desk unopened and went to walk around the shops as he did every morning. When he returned, he sat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne