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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
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reputation as a playboy. Tedlow digs deeply into the Watson family personalities, showcasing the emotions within the relationships as well as their impact on the firm. Both Watsons had clear visions of what their company could become. The... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
and successful systems will make sure that customers benefit from marketing relationships as much as firms do. Competition and brand reputations have traditionally been the market's way of providing consumers with a valuable marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
day face this dilemma: How do you deal with developments that are utterly and wholly…ambiguous? Living Up To Your Standards When you get right down to it, what choice do you have? You've made a commitment to openness and reaped substantial benefits by doing so,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
“It also became very clear that measuring ESG performance is no longer a ‘nice-to-have' but is mission-critical, impacting company cost of capital, share-price, reputation and ability to attract and retain talent, amongst other things. We... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
little communication between the ranks and the top about how they were (or were to be) achieved. Both are now trying to regain reputations that may be lost for some time. Stretch goals have wide acceptance in the business world.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
still telling. Monopolists undertake market strategies designed to ensure that they are not supplanted and nonmarket actions geared to avoiding undesirable constraints and reputational damage. Depending on their legal and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
2025) Pearle is a luxury vegan caviar brand, offering the taste and feel of caviar without harming sturgeon, the most endangered species group on the planet. After building a reputation in the greater than $2 billion caviar market, Pearle... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
directors manage reputation through disclosure choices in biographies in proxy statements filed with the SEC. Directors are more likely to withhold information about directorships at firms that experienced adverse events. Withholding such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the possible consequences of the report on the company's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
"specializing" in misconduct and catering to unsophisticated consumers, while others use their clean reputation to attract sophisticated consumers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53404 October 5, 2017 New... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
followed a series of events that seriously damaged ChuoAoyama's reputation. We use these events to provide evidence on the importance of auditors' reputation for quality in a setting where litigation plays essentially no role. Around one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- September 2024 (Revised May 2025)
- Case
Carrie Wang: Choosing Between the Family Firm and the Family Spirit
By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Sophia Pan
Carrie Wang, Investment Head of the Wang’s single-family office, contemplated her next career steps. As one of the first businessmen who had risen from China’s industrial rise, her father had grown his wealth to a considerable level, eventually requesting that his... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Interests Of Consumers; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Markets; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Private Equity; Customer Relationship Management; Interests; Reputation; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; China
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
signature insight which established his reputation permanently. To be brief: John Lintner—the capital asset pricing model. Howard Raiffa—Bayesian decision theory. Georges Doriot—venture capital. Theodore Levitt—marketing myopia. C. Roland... View Details
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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
commerce and consumption.” 16 Recognizing his reputation as an extraordinary portraitist and the prestige his name could lend to commercial work, the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency hired Steichen in 1923, the same year he became... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
and consumers will embrace this new mode of payment. Either way, even if Apple stumbles with its mobile wallet, the company will likely survive the reputation hit. "Any failure Apple experiences here will be more than offset by the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
York, which is great for customers but also means that even some businesses with solid reputations on Yelp can be hard for people to discover,” Luca says. Dai adds: “Going into the project, we weren’t sure exactly what to expect, but our... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
https://hbr.org/product/venture-capital-at-the-harvard-management-company-in-historical-perspective/815047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-021 McKinsey & Co.-Protecting Its Reputation (A) On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, all 1,200... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
made by Japanese manufacturers during that time. Now, however, the overall perceptions of key competitors have dramatically changed. Toyota, in particular, has a significantly diminished reputation due to highly publicized recent recalls.... View Details