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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
library’s collections. Briggs Motor Sales Company Records, 1925-1946 Collection Guide The Briggs Motor Sales collection offers a relatively rare glimpse into the way an early twentieth-century car dealership helped its customers find... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
more powerful than 1,000 words (or even twenty-five ad hoc performance measures). The financial and customer objectives describe the outcomes the organization wants to achieve; objectives in the internal and learning and growth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
has to create a branded experience that goes beyond the purely transactional—one that aims to build a relationship with the customer and communicate the brand in an experiential way. There’s still a purpose for physical shopping in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Management Leadership for Tomorrow, says the initiative touches on all aspects of the mission of the HBSLAA, by “empowering capable alumni to serve in this valuable capacity, connecting recent and more experienced alumni to each other and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
learning techniques to draw conclusions that weren’t possible with traditional methods, and creating new machine learning approaches and algorithms. They have published more than 70 cases that address AI uses such as how to improve View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project decision-making. Many Agile-immersion... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
was ranked number one in guest satisfaction for 2009 by the Market Metrix Hospitality Index (based on over 130,000 hotel customer surveys), beating competitors including the Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, and the Four Seasons. Michael Depatie... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provider—a comparatively costless and therefore puzzlingly rare decision that could supply redundancy and resilience in the event of an attack or service outage affecting one provider. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53830 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50700 How Do Customers Respond to Increased Service Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
Your New Mommy after the announcement by rival network ABC of a similarly-conceived show called Wife Swap. In another example, Fox initiated a boxing-themed program called The Next Great Champ two months before a somewhat similar series... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
King 806-166 Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private-sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. The case follows the organization from its start-up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
high-potential ventures into high-performance ventures, says professor Joseph Lassiter, depends on combining what, how, and who you know. Key concepts include: Successful entrepreneurs look ahead and say, "Two or three years from now, this is exactly the View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book retailers over royalty rates, release... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
participated in several major research initiatives during the 1980s and early 1990s, before becoming Dean of the School in 1995. And even as Dean, he continued to pursue research until 2005, when he left Harvard to become President of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
slower; image quality was inferior, at least initially for certain applications; and “our understanding is that it also produced unfamiliar image textures that required retraining of radiologists.” Users will pay you for safety These... View Details