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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
recruiters and from other business schools,” says Podolny. Perhaps most gratifying, recruiters tell Podolny that “our students still possess the same technical skills that they had under the old curriculum, but they now have a much better appreciation of the context... View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Rhodes- Krop f , Associate Professor of Business Administration Mike Roberts , Senior Lecturer Rudina Sese ri , Partner, Fairhaven Capital; HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Howard Stevenson , Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus Participant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
offers a venue for the company’s on-staff veterinarian to speak on various topics related to equine health. “The introduction of non-nutritional products happened very organically,” Gisholt says. “Some of our View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
The Latin American Community at HBS
all were sure that it would be useful to have friends from a region of the world we identified with, but little did we know of the real impact that these relationships would have on our time at HBS. It turns out that we did not create helpful View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer Publication:Natural Experiments in History, edited by Jared Diamond and James Robinson. Harvard University Press, forthcoming No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf Are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
more specialists are needed to stay up to date with functional best practices. The problem that this influx of specialists creates, Cespedes says, is that fewer senior executives are responsible for integrating activities across the multiple activities that determine... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
brick and clicks are Home Depot and Pet Smart. What did Home Depot do right? Rajiv Lal: Home Depot thought about the challenges facing their business very strategically. They've gone category by category and asked: What is the best way to service the View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
this process a unanimous consensus emerged: business schools could no longer hope that their students would recognize the social significance and relations of business once they became managers. The schools themselves were ultimately... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
consolidated and centralized all key functions, while their "My Macy's" initiative focused on customizing the offerings of individual stores to local markets. By 2011, Macy's had many advantages, including an energized, highly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks at a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation led to a related lesson that art... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
remote surveillance of the performance of these products. Predictive analysis applied to humans is now one of the hottest concepts to come along. It is being made possible by a system of customer loyalty programs, big data, and cloud... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product... View Details
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
nutrition or health categories. Yet investor momentum differed drastically: Domino’s scored a 15 to Cheesecake Factory’s 87 (out of a 100) in TruValue Labs's sentiment metrics, driven by lower evaluations for customer welfare as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s largest customer and the world’s... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
dreams of consumers, because a brand that’s built on such appeals will find it hard to grow to be a source of pride. Apparently misogyny, xenophobia, and contempt for the disabled have worked as customer acquisition tools for soon-to-be... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
seeking relief from unfair import pressures, greater access to overseas markets, and assistance with customs matters. For its overseas clients, including governments in the former Soviet Union, the firm serves primarily as an advisor on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
of particular products such as fabric swatches or small sheets of wallpaper. A corps of traveling salesmen, known as “drummers,” circulated trade catalogs to potential customers along with product samples. 14 Trade catalogs were also... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace