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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they sold the business and retired. In 2000, Blake became... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. Other researchers, including Jim Collins in "Good to Great," have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
found to be associated with the ability to attract specialized solvers with range of diverse scientific interests. Furthermore, successful solvers solved problems at the boundary or outside of their fields of expertise, indicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
business leaders could, through US-led innovation, bolster American manufacturing and create thousands of middle-class jobs. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor and the founding chair of the Harvard Advanced... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Collection Guide Records of Leading American Trading Firms in China Russell & Company records Mss:766 1820-1891 25 volumes, 1 box, 1 carton Collection Guide Russell & Co., founded in 1824, was one of the most prominent commission merchant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007 as new information from the field uncovered a chronic dire problem facing coffee communities-seasonal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
of 21% p.a. growth to reach sales of $13.6 billion in 2000. But as Gap entered the new millennium, dark clouds were building on the horizon. While sales in 2000 were up nearly 18% over the previous year, operating profits fell by 20%, only the second profit fall since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
http://hbr.org/search/113057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-147 Affinity Labs, Inc. In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to decide where to draw the line... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
(examining equity splits within the founding team) and "Golden Handcuffs" (examining the role of vesting terms). In the control realm, my 2003 paper in Organization Science on founder-CEO succession examined the factors that... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
advantage over the more established operations that tend to be less nimble. Founded in 1975, Schwab, the nation's pioneer discount broker, is frequently praised for its ability to reinvent itself. The pilot work for creating an easily... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
had to make sure that they found a doctor they liked and could trust in Boston. While Dylan and his wife Michelle decided to move to Boston months in advance so that she could deliver the baby here and not have to worry about traveling in... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Spring Wireless Marcelo Condé, MBA 2000 Spring Wireless (SW) was founded in Brazil in March of 2001 and has grown to 73 full-time employees. According to the Yankee Group and Exame magazine, the leading Brazilian business publication, SW... View Details
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
course to your organization . Learner Stories 76% found HBS Online to be more impactful than other online business programs Understanding what a platform is and why someone would use one is crucial. The dynamics of consumption are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
steak house in Atlanta opened up this week and we decided a group of us would go in a show of solidarity to see how they’re operationalizing a fine dining experience. It was their first seating, their first day open, and we found out that... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
was said about the black woman off to the side. Murrell would later discover the model who posed for the painting had a name, Laure, as noted in Manet's journal. In that moment, Murrell found the topic of what would become her... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high performance in Asian firms were... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes