Market Selection - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2018 (Revised April 2019)
Teaching Note

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble

Teaching Note for HBS No. 418-011. View Details

Fast Answer

IFC: LA/Hollywood

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Best for a broad industry overviews. Covers industry trends, forecasts, major players and View Details

18 Feb 2016
News

Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process

share ideas on how precision diagnostics and therapies can be brought to market faster. Participants will receive feedback from an online community of precision medicine influencers, executives, researchers, doctors, and advocacy groups.... View Details

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

in the first place,” Lloyd wrote. Bealeader commented: “ leadership training is too often: (1) an infrequent, if not one time, event, and (2) offered to a select few.” In citing the pressures of market... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations,” which was View Details

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

customer vehicles at higher rates and are more likely to lose customers whom they fail, suggesting that competition intensifies pressure on facilities to provide illegal leniency. We also show that, at least in markets in which pricing is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
News

The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

margin of about one dollar to repay the loan and earn a profit. The LCAE team is in the process of selecting countries in which to operate, examining factors such as market size, regulation, and access to... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

enterprises” Never mind whether this was ever truly so black and white—Western countries certainly had their share of state-owned businesses back in the 1970s—but what is clear is that times have changed. Liberalization of markets in many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

stake in Infoseek, the Internet search firm. Disney, once merely an entertainment provider, has thus become a multimedia giant able to shape and deliver news, information, and other content through a variety of channels. "Companies are attempting to expand their... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

01 Mar 2003
News

Brazil Banks on Experience

Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2007
News

Fall Reunions

the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for catching up with old... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

team to what is actually going on. Effective customer selection requires segmenting a market based on the benefits that customers receive and perceive in the product or service. It focuses on buyers:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2000
News

Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects

vehicle for learning about constructive philanthropy. "The same spirit that makes Harvard Business School students successful business leaders is also alive in the Foundation," says Trustee Daniel F. Curran (MBA '00). "Students use their skills in analysis, operations,... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

Coleman Professor of Financial Management. “We are surprised by how teams come in and say we talked to the CEO,” laughs Cohen. One of the key lessons in Cohen and Malloy’s field course, Stock Pitching, is that the market is almost always... View Details

21 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Going Negative in Political Advertising

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.This post is... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning service firm. Type in your name... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1998
News

Merton Named University Professor

Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in... View Details

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

has found that companies adopt one of three different strategies: Launch and see. The company launches a variety of products, and then measures market reaction to each, relying on the selective capability of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India.... View Details