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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
innovations, or selling services—to step up and lead without a hierarchy. Consumer marketing companies are lining up to use these networks to reach their tailored demographics with highly personalized messages. Already they are revolutionizing marketing by shifting... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
unedited, unpredictable, and spontaneous. I thought: “People say I’m entertaining. I have big opinions. I’m too ugly for television, but how about radio?” I persuaded the owner of a tiny 1,000-watt station in Westport to let me work for free. At night, the station... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
companies have been shown to attract and retain talented employees, to increase the attractiveness of product and service purchases by like-minded customers, and to foster environments of creativity and community. “What does that lead to?... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
nonprofit Art + Practice. Joyner first began buying art in the late 1990s. At the time, she was drawn to pioneering abstract painters such as Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Sam Gilliam, and Jack Whitten. “There is power in abstract art,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
to outsource water treatment because of its increasing complexity and strict regulatory requirements. Industrial water treatment is a capital-intensive industry, so that tends to drive it into the hands of large multinationals.” Indeed, Ionics itself was View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
taxes in order to purchase public goods. Equal Sacrifice has many implications for tax policy. For instance, it says that everyone should pay some taxes, so it makes no room for redistributing income from one person to another. But... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
economics research, business academics and managers will have the power to substantially improve both the practice of business and the welfare of society. My hope is that we will use that power responsibly.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
buying online. But even in the face of this—and what he sees as oppressive taxation and constraining bureaucracy—Beisert says the opportunity here is vast. In the United States, online purchases make up over 20 percent of the fashion... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
wanted the city back about its regular commercial business. "The business community's number one concern," he says, "was getting the power back on," so that computers, elevators, office lights, and heating would work. A Con Ed generating... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
going to have the power and the passion to fundamentally change it. For example, almost half of Sony's profits now come from a guy who six or seven years ago was a lowly engineer in corporate R&D. He had to fight his way up the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
his manager's approval—from the cash register. That practice is a gray zone, but would hardly qualify as a moral one. By contrast, the same employee setting aside a clothing item in a storage room to later purchase for himself when the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
has paid lower prices for a huge range of high-quality foreign-made goods. The resulting increase in the purchasing power of consumers’ income—combined with our highly efficient retail distribution... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
stumbled into an even bigger market: precision tweezers for women's personal beauty care. It turned out there was a real need for a more sophisticated and specialized tweezers among the trade who served beauty-conscious women. Before long, the initial tentative View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
meets Sephora, meets Allure.com. It is a monthly box filled with a curated assortment of the hottest samples from high-end beauty brands. The samples are paired with a website that includes an online magazine and store to purchase... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a company-based plan. The plan’s... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
others. Material purchases are less satisfying than buying experiences like taking a trip or attending a show, Norton’s research shows. Even though vacations and restaurant outings may not be in the cards right now, we can still spend... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
than using more explicit cosmetics. In Shanghai, two women shade themselves as they walk past an ad for a skin-lightening cream. Powered globally by marketing, media, and entertainment, commercial beauty ideals may challenge local... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
The responsibility that comes with such power is something that Cummings will be forced to consider with his biggest investment in Detroit to date: the Fisher Building. (No relation to Max Fisher.) In New Center, three miles northwest on... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
the executive board. In certain senses, the speaker is the primary representative of the executive board, not an all-powerful executive. Naturally, the power of the speaker varies enormously from firm to firm. Some are more autocratic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne