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- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
within this changing environment?” Yao says. Its role remains significant, according to new research by Yao and several colleagues. Despite spending relatively less, the government funds innovations that really matter to the American economy. The research, published in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the commercial artist and illustrator. 19 U.S. Steel’s marketing division frequently used photographs in advertisements targeted to industrial users of steel in trade journals and national magazines. Distinct from marketing, the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO
having a record year for cash flow. The Journal also noted that Kempczinksi had planned a global town hall meeting with employees. “I’ll share a bit more about my background and perspective,” he wrote in an internal memo, “but most... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
no. 1 (March 2002): 115. 59. Edwin H. Land, "One-Step Photography," The Photographic Journal (January 1950): 7. Contact Baker Library Special Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
large corporations, such as Apple and Google, are careful to retain their underdog roots in their brand biographies." A forthcoming article coauthored by Keinan for the Journal of Consumer Research, "The Underdog Effect: The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
Physician burnout costs the United States health care industry $4.6 billion a year, a number that brings a new spotlight to an age-old problem. In a paper published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine this past June, a research... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
competitive online business programs Rarely does a day go by where I don't see a business leader or company wrestling with the same issues that we discussed in class on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal . These issues are more... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
developing new medical innovations. They were issues of execution of known activities,” he says. “Particularly in the early days, the pandemic truly placed a premium on those with management expertise.” As Huckman details in a paper in the View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
labeled the leading digital currency, Bitcoin, a “fraud,” likening it to the 17th century tulip bulb mania and adding that he would fire any employee caught trading it. But on October 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that rival Goldman... View Details
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
the trade journal Inland Printer proclaimed the critical new role of printing in advertising: “The manufacturer once made everything in one shop, and sold to everybody near him. The consumer . . . must now use the products of numerous and... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
but there was no real research focused on it.” Unexplained death figures vary widely The level of underreporting varied significantly from one country to the next, the research team outlined in a recent article in the Journal of Economics... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Global Currency Hedging
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
is. But such an approach is risky, too. Do you really want to position your brand on the side of telling people to work too much? Keinan, an associate professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, explores the phenomenon in a paper forthcoming in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
outlet by which creativity can currently find its fullest expression and support at a time when journalism and the arts are given more scrutiny. Before the revolution, you might aspire to a government post or a job with a multinational,... View Details
- 03 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, the first... View Details
- March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
ASOS PLC
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details
Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "ASOS PLC." Harvard Business School Case 716-449, March 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
most of his work as a professor, he spent hours each week reviewing papers for academic journals out of a sense of obligation to the profession. “Then I stopped and thought, ‘What happens if I don’t do some of these reviews?’” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
the ages of 8 and 10. For more, see their article "Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children," forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.) Despite the fact that the study was done... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding