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May 1998
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Note on the Retailing Industry

Presents a survey discussion of retailing and current issues. Examines the impact of changing consumer attitudes on the industry and outlines the industry's response: consolidation, adoption of technology, use of brands and private labels, and changing relationships... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Debates; Customers; Surveys; Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Adoption; Consolidation; Retail Industry

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04 Sep 2013
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From HBO to HBS

Henry McGee Photo courtesy of HBO When he graduated from HBS, Henry McGee (MBA 1979), a former Newsweek reporter, was pretty sure he wanted to get into the business side of media. Time Inc. offered him two jobs. One would put him on the established path of magazine... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

videos this morning.” Balancing act: “In leadership, there’s a tension between getting good information from multiple stakeholders and a more top-down approach, where you trust your intuition, take a minority point of view, and run with... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

you content and information that you will find useful. We also are exploring a concept we're calling "HBS for Life" that we hope will more effectively connect you with the School and with fellow alumni throughout your career. Finally, we... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Information for Euro Elektrische Keramische Vorrichtungen (Euro EKV), GmbH Harvard Business School Exercise 908-033 In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)

public companies by industry, geography, Keywords, etc. America City Business Journal – provides local business news and information from more than forty cities across the United States. Open database and industry... View Details

05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

bookstores—the whole physical distribution system—is on the cusp of changing fundamentally." Olson has a particularly informed view of the issue. Before arriving at HBS in 2008, he was CEO of Random House. In a recent unpublished... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Information; Information

01 Dec 2016
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Air Time

trying to find parking.” “About 30 percent of the traffic in most urban areas is caused by people just driving around trying to find parking.” — Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995), founder of INRIX transportation information firm Trending... View Details

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

impactful within their given industries, and how to tackle them, there's confusion in listing all that data. As an investor, you've gone from a period of very little information in the nonfinancial domain to a state of play where there is... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

November 2018
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Sportradar (A): From Data to Storytelling

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Oliver Gassmann

In 2013, the Swiss sports data company Sportradar debated whether to expand from its core business of data provision to bookmakers into sports media products. Sports data was becoming a commodity, and in the future, sports leagues might reduce their dependence on... View Details

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15 Jan 2019
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Working to Improve the End of Life

several laws passed in New York State having to do with end-of-life care. One, for example, requires doctors to inform patients of their end-of-life options, including hospice and palliative care. This was View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Thailand

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Thailand? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of geographies/countries. To begin, enter... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about Taipei to help me with FIELD Global Immersion? Industry and market research Passport Useful for: consumer-related industry reports across a variety of... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

instead, just tried to do what was best for the company. Steve Gallagher: My student experience has directly informed how I think about the services I’m delivering. When I talk to my sectionmates at reunions, they ask me how things have... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Entrepreneurs are routinely encouraged to form partnerships—don't dare do it alone. But new research shows the potential danger of getting too close to outsiders—particularly investors—when proprietary information can be leaked to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

Recent HBS Alumni Events on Campus and Beyond 1 Members of the Classes of 2003 to 2017 gathered for a Young Alumni Reception at Joy District Chicago in September. 2 The MBA Classes of 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992, as well as alumni from several Executive Education... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Books

Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital media software-platform... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
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Back to School

The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint ini-tiative of HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

with an awareness that the group that supported them had nothing to do with pigment or gender or economic status. Please explain Outward Bound’s role in schools. Our Expeditionary Learning program, which is ten years old, takes the same principles that View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

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Private wealth management

Where can I find statistics and information on private wealth management firms? For an overview on private wealth management firms use FirstHand(Vault) (registration required). Private Wealth... View Details

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