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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 21 Mar 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Is American Democracy in Trouble? Thoughts on the Perils (and Promise) of an Aging Democracy

Is American democracy in trouble? What could this mean for the nations economy and business environment? Professor Moss will take up these questions from an historical perspective, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the nations political system as it has evolved... View Details
  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

By: Feng Zhu
Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this paper, we argue that such “institution-seeking” behavior may not be confined to the pursuit of... View Details
Keywords: Patent Wars; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement; Institutions; Smartphone; Patent Thicket; Digital Platforms; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM EST, 25 Feb 2021
  • Virtual Programming

Books@Baker: Frank Cespedes

Sales is changing, but the practical impact of selling e-commerce, big data, artificial intelligence, and other megatrends is often misunderstood, says Harvard Business School Professor Frank Cespedes, author of Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

After Clinique, Twist brought her skills and experience to a group of iconic American brands and led all marketing, e-commerce, business intelligence, and creative for Isaac Mizrahi, Halston, Judith Ripka,... View Details
  • Web

Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

speech files, Polaroid Corporation Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. 2. Edwin H. Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1978, 5. 3. Victor K. McElheny, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life View Details
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books

you did things differently. Rebel Talent profiles successful business owners, pilots, magicians, and military leaders to highlight how they challenged the status quo and carved their own path. Instead of... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • News

Back to the Office? The Future of Remote and Hybrid Work, with Tsedal Neeley, PhD

  • March 2008 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Sony PlayStation 3: Game Over?

By: Elie Ofek
Outlines the challenges faced by Sony with the launch of its PlayStation 3. Information on the 2006 and 2007 holiday seasons and the success of rival consoles is outlined. In addition, the case allows examining the costs and revenues associated with a business model... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Cost; Revenue; Product Launch; Sales; Competition; Hardware; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 21 Oct 2014
  • News

Blinded by the Light: Avoiding the Blind Spots of Leadership

  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities
  • winter 1976
  • Article

Please Note Location of Nearest Exit: Exit Barriers and Planning

By: M. E. Porter
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Business Exit or Shutdown; Market Entry and Exit
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  • 8 AM – 8 PM MDT, 18 May 2018
  • HBS Alumni Events

HBS Hacks: Solving For The Future of Work in San Francisco

Collaborate with fellow HBS alumni to create the actionable solutions to one of societys most vexing challenges. View Details
  • Research Summary

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
  • July 1993 (Revised September 1994)
  • Case

Millipore New Product Commercialization: A Tale of Two New Products

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Kevin Bartus
Millipore, the worldwide leader in separations technology, was in the process of launching two key new products: one a liquid chromatography/mass spectrometer and the other a virus separation membrane. The case documents the product development and commercialization... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Product Launch; Product Development; Commercialization
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  • Article

The Pressure of the Past: Network Imprinting in Intercorporate Communities

By: Christopher Marquis
Keywords: Business Ventures; Groups and Teams
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  • March 1994
  • Article

Expropriation and Inventions: Appropriable Rents in the Absence of Property Rights

By: J. Anton and Dennis Yao
We analyze the problem faced by a financially weak independent inventor when selling a valuable, but easily imitated, invention for which no property rights exist. The inventor can protect his or her intellectual property by negotiating a contingent contract (with a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Sales; Contracts; Negotiation
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
This paper examines differences in the size and roles of corporate headquarters around the world. Based on a survey of over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, UK, Japan, US, and Chile) the paper describes the differences among... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Size; Organizational Structure; Culture; Japan; France; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom; United States; Chile
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  • 09 Nov 2020
  • News

Now Is a Good Time to Take Care of Ourselves

  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

what venture capital might look like in the future, we asked Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking and head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard View Details
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking