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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

concern took its place as the fourth-largest investment bank in the country. [13] Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. expanded its global financial markets, opening offices in Europe and Asia and serving in a financial advisory capacity in... View Details

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

management. To take advantage of unpredictable windows that might open and close quickly, and to spot and avoid unpredictable threats, leadership is required "beyond one larger-than-life executive," he says. An inseparable partnership... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

programs has gone far beyond the marketing department to infuse everything the museum does, making it unique among its peers, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School. The Magic Tate Ball... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

wages—when their doing so seems like more of a marketing ploy than a substantive effort to address the underlying problems. Very few of these programs require third-party verification. But I suspect that to really deliver on the promise... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

practical steps that merchants can take to prevent multiple purchases? A: In practice, it's not easy to prohibit the purchase of multiple vouchers. A voucher service can configure its systems so that a single account only lets a user purchase a given offer once. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

Harvard Business School have as much pain shopping for a new car as the rest of us. For Jill Avery, a senior lecturer in the Marketing Unit, one experience included being ignored by a salesman, who turned repeatedly to her husband to talk... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

developed marketing strategies to appeal to consumers’ senses from the nineteenth century to today.” Cellophane gets an entire chapter in Hisano’s book. As she explains in the paper, cellophane packaging let food vendors manipulate the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

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Prizes & Benefits - Alumni

needs, market sizes, and industry dynamics. Schedule a one-on-one research consultation to look at data sources, brainstorm research strategies, and more. Get in touch at infoservices@hbs.edu. Fast Track Opportunities MassChallenge BMC... View Details

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

standards. Some public intervention is necessary—and that public intervention manifests itself as institutions operate not through a competitive market process, but through a democratic political process. Therein lies the rub. Once the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

2011
Chapter

Clusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

While clusters have been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has undoubtedly... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Framework; Policy; Industry Clusters; Practice; Competitive Advantage

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September 2024
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InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility

By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken

Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details

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27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

between a standalone videogame console and a PC tailored to play videogames. It remained unclear, however, where along the spectrum from dedicated console to PC Microsoft should position the Xbox. Would it be an open platform like the PC... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

For generations, American workers have dreamed of striking out on their own, starting their own business, being their own boss—and ideally making a lot of money in the process. That sentiment appears to be alive and well today, amid an acute labor shortage that has... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

on data while exploring market fit. Faculty presented central themes of renowned HBS courses like Founders’ Journey and Entrepreneurial Finance. Industry experts offered their insights on how to effectively manage public relations, what... View Details

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

inclusive design choices in a forthcoming article in the journal Marketing Intelligence Review. What follows is a condensed version: Build awareness. Digital platform builders must recognize how their design choices and algorithms can... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

46 employees, and an estimated value of $25 million. Today, Walker & Dunlop is a publicly traded company with a market cap close to $5 billion. While Walker has led massive growth at the company, he realized several years ago that the way... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Judging Criteria - Alumni

addressable market for your product and service. Highlight growth and trends. Attractive business model: How do you plan to make money? Who pays you? What are your distribution channels? What is your gross margin? Is your business model... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

in the book the different roles, frequencies, participants, and agendas for operational review meetings and strategy review meetings. We open the book with a great quote often but perhaps inaccurately attributed to Sun Tzu in The Art of... View Details