Painting - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting pay too much? Was it real? Did it matter? The sale of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

event and was broadcast. In a burst of understatement, Fortune magazine described the symphony as "somewhat programmatic in nature." The second movement contained a melodic reference to the most often sung of IBM's many songs, "Ever Onward." View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

survey of nearly 6,000 small-business owners conducted by a team of researchers in partnership with Alignable, an online business networking platform with 4.5 million members. The survey results paint a bleak picture of America’s current... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

entrepreneurial hustle, working with a friend to turn new German helmets into “war souvenirs” by painting them to look battle-worn. The rest is business lore: He never gave up on his cartoons, working relentlessly to improve them,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

according to the Olmsted brothers' initial landscaping plan, contrasts pleasingly with the buildings' red brick and echoes their white painted trim. White-flowered shrubs and trees such as Japanese barberry, white fringe trees, and... View Details

Keywords: Education

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

to paint a vivid and compelling picture of social life. In the extreme, Bales (1999) conservatively estimates that there are 27 million slaves in the world today, while Attaran and Sachs (2001) report that 35 million people are now... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations for a car that isn't the exact model they want. That's the grim... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

companies, brands, and products are growing stronger in much of the world. The situation is not yet critical, but it is worsening. Yet the U.S. mass media continues to paint a dangerously optimistic picture of the global business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

consumers could simply paint on their teeth. One month after its introduction, Simply White had captured one half of the market, and Crest Whitestrips lost more than 50% of its share. However, P&G's tests of Simply White indicated... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809025 Mattel's Long Hot Summer Harvard Business School Case 308-129 In the summer of 2007, Mattel performed three major recalls of toys, mostly due to lead View Details

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

advantage—tend to live by it in our own personal affairs every day. For the most part, we all try to do what we're relatively best at and trade for everything else. Take an investment banker, for example. Even if that investment banker were better at View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

be overlooked if not forgiven. Clinton will doubtless try to pin Trump down on policy and expose his lack of detailed knowledge. Trump will try to stick to broad brush strokes, avoid policy specifics and leave enough white space for voters to View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

What were the key steps in how the Indian modern art market went from essentially a nonexistent category to one where individual paintings were being sold for millions of dollars? A: The market for modern Indian art was created in three... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

current quarter. But are they painting an accurate picture of a company’s current performance? The researchers discovered something they didn’t expect: When a strong showing seemed to be under way for a company, managers at announcement... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

African villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign of credibility. Companies and nonprofits have stronger... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

an analysis of the debt, and Robert Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development Emeritus, cheerfully admitted he would provide "the gloomy panel" with David Walker, founder and CEO of Comeback America Initiative. The picture they View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

This arises not just from entrepreneurs who have been doing this for years like the Birlas and Asian Paints but also from more recent moves by India's pharmaceuticals, software, and auto component sectors, among others. Cross-border... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

have suggests they are at least twice as common—and even more diverse in nature. Ongoing research will allow us to better distinguish these channels. A Beijing scholar we met on the trip, Henry Wang, and I are currently surveying a large population of Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

other hand, Joshua Kurlantzick, writing from Shanghai in The New Republic three weeks ago, paints another picture. His is of a China with a failed banking system with 50 percent of non-performing loans made to state-owned enterprises to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

advertisements in battleground or swing states. These ads are designed to raise doubts about and paint a picture of Trump before he has enough money to hit the airwaves in earnest. Complementing this air war is Clinton's well-organized... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

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