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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
now need to capture a larger share of each customer's business," Crane observes, noting that the lines between financial service sectors are blurring. Today's bank offers many of the services of a brokerage firm, and vice versa.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
efficiency has led to mergers," says Dwight Crane. "What were nine banks in Boston, Hartford, and Providence, for instance, is now one megabank. Firms now need to capture a larger share of each customer's business," Crane observes, noting... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
The MBA Voices blog will publish these letters, daily, with a link to the ongoing series as it unfolds. This blog is 2/5. Zachary Hermes MD, MBA ’21, Section B To my classmates, As I sit here, with my newborn son beside me, I struggle to find the words to truly View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
depriving themselves of revenue that they could capture by customers willing to pay higher prices. “People are lazy, and, on average, the first thing you present to them has a disproportionately high likelihood of being accepted,” Ngwe... View Details
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
persuasive tool in PR campaigns. HBS Entrepreneurs Collection In 2001, Harvard Business School initiated a two-year oral history project to capture the stories of some of the most significant entrepreneurs of the time. The interviewees... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
respect to Genentech, the pros and cons of merging the two companies with different cultures, the value of Genentech, and the tactics of a hostile tender offer. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210040-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the enterprise value to EBITDA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
similar platform targeting retailers. Was this the best way to capture more of the value the company created for makers? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816038-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
viewed compliance as the job of lawyers and conceived of the board's job much more broadly. "I'm more comfortable on some boards than I am on others," one director told us. "Some people have really taken the value of governance, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition and variety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
productivity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52141 Capturing Value from IP in a Global Environment By: Alcácer, Juan, Karin Beukel, and Bruno Cassiman Abstract—This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
husband, who escaped in the mountains. Capturing him in Bonanza Flat, the founding sheriff decides not to kill him and sets in motion a long and broken path to a tradition of justice where none existed before in Summit County, Utah... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Expertise Authors:Heidi K.Gardner and Lisa Kwan Abstract Why do some teams fail to convert members' knowledge into valued outcomes? We propose that members' differing perceptions of each other's levels of expertise is a critical factor.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
School Note 706-492 Describes the basics of how to break down costs into productivity and input prices and then compare those cost drivers between competitors. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706492 Tanishq:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
record US$1.9 billion, but the firm, led by Zhang Xin, refocused in 2012 on a “build-to-hold” strategy in an effort to capture the long-term value of its properties. Zhang also saw an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
they lend themselves to the risk of hype behind their projections. Most space SPACs crashed in value as soon as they went public, so many investors got a real sense that space is a dangerous place to invest. But, when you talk to people... View Details