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- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
when putting together offer packages for students. C – Company Conversations. You might know Company Conversations as Coffee Chats at other MBA schools. These 1:1 or small group meetings are a great way to connect with students and get to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on bailouts. Politicians pounced. President Obama called Wall Street's... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
article see a project through from start to finish. They find a story and package it with any combination of a writer, director, or star before pitching it to investors or one of the big studios. If they’re successful in assembling... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Credit: malerapaso For as much as American politicians and their constituents complain about taxes, the truth is that tax reform packages to address those complaints are rare—the last major reform of the tax code was passed in 1986 under... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
organizations must be more agile, learning gains importance. (5) A strong culture can be a significant liability when it is misaligned with strategy. The package includes four companion features: "What's Your Organization's Cultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
Toward this end, they obtained the rights to their own copyrights back from Island Records; they oversaw the vast majority of decisions about touring, record production, graphics, and packaging themselves; they focused on touring and a... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
and that Professor Milt Brown, head of marketing, ordered me back to the equivalent of boot camp—teaching first year marketing—led by Professor Walt Salmon. Brown explained that “Walt will teach you some marketing,” and so he did, although it seemed rather heavily... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative Cloud where consumers paid a monthly subscription fee. Within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
2005 as a step toward that goal. From 2000 to 2007, Latvia achieved faster GDP growth than any EU state. However, when large inflows of capital suddenly dried up in 2008, Latvia had to obtain a financial rescue package from the IMF, World... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these mortgages were packaged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
consumers and hosts, as well as the effects on hotels, will likely become less pronounced. Just as Airbnb is adding experience packages to its home-rental offerings, so too are hotels such as Marriott International. And maybe hotels could... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
been in decline in the U.S. and Western Europe. The 19th century business model whereby news and editorial content was packaged and delivered to homes daily and paid for by national advertisers has been overturned by the Internet and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
enhancements (did you know there is a synthetic shoe odor molecule you can buy? It smells.), pitching a new retailer, making a new animated GIF of feet sweating or something else wacky, designing packaging for a different section of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
has held that sheer corporate size could ensure industry dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit “blind spot.” While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota “strives to use its... View Details
- 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
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
fiscal stimulus package and then must debate whether to extend the Bush tax cuts. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712012-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
advantage of it -- you got everyone in a room, and then you ran an ad." Today, through technologies promised by ad serving firms, "you can go to your customers rather than have them come to you," Deighton adds. DoubleClick's area of expertise involves its ability to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field experiment on the review platform Yelp.com. The experiment consists of roughly 18,000 restaurants and 24 million advertising exposures—randomly assigning paid search advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne