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08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

used firm size as a proxy for reputation and utilized uniqueness and political slant indices to account for other company characteristics. The study did not take into account costs or any discounts or marketing efforts targeting new... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

chemical pulp, utilizes planted eucalyptus trees and integration of native habitat to dramatically reduce the land required in wood fiber cultivation. The company also encourages small-scale producers nears its mills - which contribute... View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

beverage company with $90 billion in revenue, $15 billion in profits, and 8,500 brands sold in 197 countries. For most of the 20th century, Nestle enjoyed steady growth and profitability. The company had been early to establish factories in developing countries,... View Details

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Factiva: downloading articles

massive amounts of Factiva content via automated scripts with as little impact as possible to researchers that are properly utilizing the Factiva.com platform.

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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

of print publications. Adopting color offered another way to make a bold photographic statement in a print publication.” 10 As photograph historian Sally Stein writes, however, “So long as the linkage between colors and commodities remained weak, the perception of... View Details

03 Dec 2020
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Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

many companies is that widespread salary cuts may not be workable because of existing employee agreements. Furloughs A furlough is a mandated unpaid leave of absence, utilized by private (such as General Motors during the 2019 United Auto... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

teach for 30 minutes. When the professor took the chalk from me, I sat down to enormous applause. Fast-forward 16 years later, the UVA School of Engineering, my alma mater, asked me to teach a class called the Business of Engineering, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

and renovation practices. HBS has installed solar PV* and solar thermal along with green roofs on many of our buildings. (*Note: SRECs, which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet State Renewable... View Details

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable goods and services.” —... View Details

05 Dec 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

from your team for what they need to be most productive/engaged Set clear expectations and definitions of success along with systems to track progress to ensure employees can independently and collaborative work towards goals. Utilize... View Details

29 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

also demonstrates immense determination. He often utilizes his skills and focuses on the impact he can make in our immediate communities. He is a perfectionist at his craft and is always someone I look to when I want an example of someone... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

this period. The British willingness to use outside capital in affiliate ventures was distinctive. With some exceptions, in other European countries non-trading activities might be separately incorporated but were usually wholly owned. The ability of the British... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

26 Mar 2021
Blog Post

How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition

take a few minutes to thoroughly review the content. Ms. Huggett suggests a template that looks polished, is easy to navigate and avoids using graphs and charts. A traditional looking template is still the best received. What resources would you recommend alumni View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

young boy for dismantling a phonograph, from then on "nothing or nobody could stop me from carrying through the execution of an experiment." 6 As a child, he was drawn to the beauty and utility of chemistry and optics. Kaleidoscopes and... View Details

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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Cotting House | About

School’s international reach. Noting the post-World War II growth in international trade and increasing numbers of multi-national companies, Baker observed, “Businessmen and educators in all parts of the world are recognizing professionally educated management as a key... View Details

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

process better.” Yet the possibilities for state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

course began, in part, as another test of the utility of the case method—could it work for a younger undergraduate audience, unfamiliar with the case method, and for a broader historical topic? Now in its third year, the hybrid... View Details

Keywords: April White

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