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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA ’92) of a recently View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a hundred million dollars. With the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
explore the dynamics of the rapidly evolving digital environment. Market Driven Health Care by Regina E. Herzlinger (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.) Informed and assertive consumers, powerful new technologies, and ferociously... View Details
- January 2018
- Article
The Central and Unacknowledged Role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the Design and Execution of Medical Device Pivotal Trials
By: Aaron V. Kaplan and Ariel D. Stern
The introduction of new medical devices has transformed cardiovascular care in recent decades. Devices, such as heart valves, pacemakers, stents, ventricular assist devices, and implantable defibrillators, have prolonged and improved the quality of life for millions of... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Publishing; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
Kaplan, Aaron V., and Ariel D. Stern. "The Central and Unacknowledged Role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the Design and Execution of Medical Device Pivotal Trials." JAMA Cardiology 3, no. 1 (January 2018): 5–6.
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
This Site’s for You
photo. In each issue of the Bulletin, we publish a mystery photo called “Last Look” and invite readers to tell us what’s going on. We typically get a batch of e-mail responses and summarize explanations in the next issue of the magazine.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
Valley, first consulting with tech companies while at Bain, then transitioned to the industry side at big companies like Yahoo as well as smaller companies and startups, and everything in between. Throughout that time, I was usually the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
(MBA '59) ((North American Business Press)) Inside Luxury: The Growth and Future of the Luxury Goods Industry by Maria Eugenia Giron ((LID Publishing)) The Exile: Journey from Life to Death by Ro Kong Kyun (MBA 1959) ((Eloquent Books))... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
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HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile View Details
- March 1993
- Background Note
Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning
By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger
Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details
Keywords: Information; Body of Literature; Information Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Decision Making; Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L., David Croson, and Katherine Seger. "Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-141, March 1993.
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
August, Quin returned to Yemen, where she interviewed the imprisoned Muslims whose release her captors had sought, in order to better understand their thoughts and personalities. Having completed the bulk of her research and some writing (she hopes to View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
Where the Money Will Be," an article published in the November 2001 Harvard Business Review. "In markets where product performance is outstripping customer need, the market leader is vulnerable," write Christensen and coauthors Michael... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marie-Laure Goepfer
dies to accomplish her destiny. Although I played her role for few hours, Antigone inspired the way I walk through my life. I want to always follow my dreams: I worked in the publishing industry because I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
typewriter).” —Ralph Hancox (PMD 26, 1973), who spent six decades in the publishing industry before “retiring” to publish a memoir and novels, including The Ape & the Peacock... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
their fieldwork with a number of independent companies. In a humorous aside, Lawrence noted that the book’s French publisher had translated its subtitle into Managing Differentiation or Integration, not “and,” as written. Yet “making an... View Details
- January 1999
- Case
Prague Post, The
By: Paul A. Gompers
Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic
Gompers, Paul A. "Prague Post, The ." Harvard Business School Case 299-033, January 1999.
- September 1997 (Revised June 1999)
- Teaching Note
Bankruptcy and Restructuring at Marvel Entertainment Group, Teaching Note
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-298-059). View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industry
- May 2017
- Article
The Reference Wars: Encyclopædia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence
By: Shane Greenstein
The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft’s Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Britannica; Diseconomies; Encyclopedias; Applications and Software; Books; Competition; Publishing Industry
Greenstein, Shane. "The Reference Wars: Encyclopædia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 5 (May 2017): 995–1017.
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What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
By: Loretti I. Dobrescu, Michael Luca and Alberto Motta
This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to... View Details
Dobrescu, Loretti I., Michael Luca, and Alberto Motta. "What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 96 (December 2013): 85–103.