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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing (ESM), a field course that debuted in spring 2016. “To a greater degree than in established firms, marketing and selling in entrepreneurial ventures are linked to product... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
competitive labor markets because of their reputations and values. "At first, we thought of our reputation conceptually, as something that we needed to keep improving. Now we know it affects our ability to View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog
of heightened geopolitical tensions, breakthrough technological innovations, and significant demographic change presents not just complexity but immense opportunity. This course provides frameworks for recognizing patterns across markets... View Details
- Profile
Evelyne White
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially... View Details
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Alika Phipps
As a child in Haiti, Alika Phipps watched her family manage its business interests, in margarine production and property insurance, and became “fascinated with markets and finance.” While attending MIT, she took a summer internship at JP... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
in Large Markets By: Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract—Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
that attract consumers to retailers’ websites. Companies typically have to balance the popularity of these policies in a competitive market with the high costs of managing returns, including shipping and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
"dilution" resulting from the introduction of an online MBA by a highly regarded onsite program, Joshua Doherty questioned the futures of top-tier schools that may lose their ability "to exploit the market power of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
emerging markets of China and India—are filled with capital controls and ownership restrictions. How can the United States as a destination end up being so much less attractive despite the relative absence... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
Growth Market: Afghan saffron has also attracted the attention of MBA classmates Ben Bines, Kimberly Jung, KinYan Chew, and Emily Miller (all HBS 2015), who founded Rumi Spice with a mission similar to Earth2Globe’s. (©Majid... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
to go to the unethical facility, with the intention of being passed even though they didn't deserve it. You've got this big orphaned market of customers looking for that. So all of a sudden you might become more lenient to try to View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
market, then investors, employees, intermediaries such as law firms and data providers, and the wider capital markets are likely to be knowledgeable about the venturing process and the strategies, financing, support, and exit mechanisms... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
in her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana; that she graduated cum laude from Dartmouth; or the fact that she garnered several sales and marketing awards at Merck & Company, Inc., where she worked for five years before coming to HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
show home, attracting dozens of architecture professors and students, engineers, other developers, and government policy-makers to tour the site. Harper hopes more people will recognize the benefits of this approach to house design.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
reflected in Company Presentation attendance – students want to use their time, and your time, wisely! Companies who typically hire many students, or have a well-known brand on campus, may attract larger groups at presentations.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
responsibilities was to work with HBS Community Partners, HBS alumni who conduct pro-bono consulting work, to develop a marketing strategy for San Jose’s innovation efforts. “If we can tell the innovation story more effectively,” he says,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
attractive one first or second?” Note to readers: As they continue their research, Ferreira and Goh would like to team up with retailers to test their models in real-world settings. If you think your company might benefit from empirical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
think about attracting candidates differently: We’re not necessarily looking for someone who is on the market, we’re looking to start a dialogue with somebody six months, one year, even two years out from a job transition. One tool we’d... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details