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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business
professor of accounting at Howard University, where he taught for over 30 years. There he developed the marketing program and organized the Howard University Small Business Development Center. He joined the...
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- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
813-019 The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four-star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland, and the other View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni
sent to lead a secret mission in 1944 that the United States thought could end World War II. When the plan fell apart, a new challenge began: survive the Slovakian...
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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Abstract Across eight experiments, we describe the influence of anxiety on advice seeking and advice taking. We find that anxious individuals are more likely to seek and rely on advice than are those in a neutral emotional View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Gap, Inc., 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion...
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Strategic Change;
Fashion;
Multinational;
Brands;
Competition;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Performance Improvement;
Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Change Management;
Retail Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Sweden;
Spain;
United States
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Gap, Inc., 2012." Harvard Business School Case 713-511, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-112 Health Systems in the Developing World This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States 09 Jun 2022 The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back Dorian Salinas Author HBS Community tag 2nd Year (EC) Alumni International Leadership MD/MBA Student Life Women Now that the MBA Class of 2022...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all...
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- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
readily be reclaimed by investors in the firm who lost money." In a new research paper, coauthored with World Bank economists Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper, Cole explores...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
that engineers stable metal alloys at the Nano-scale. Tom was also CEO of Z Corporation, a leading pioneer in 3D printing, where he grew the company from early commercialization to market leadership. He is a...
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- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
Mississippi planter priced his 48-year-old foreman, Hercules, at $500; recorded the worth of Middleton, a 26-year-old top-producing field hand, at $1,500; and gave 9-month-old George Washington a value of $150. At the end of the year, he repeated this process,...
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by Katie Johnston
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
became founders 5-14 years after leaving HBS, and the balance started companies 15+ years after graduation. But studying startups and small firms conveys powerful lessons about general management for those pursuing careers View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
Because pricing is such a difficult and complex arena, it has confounded sales and marketing executives and scholars for centuries. In no other marketing element is the...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
platforms, and hybrid platforms. We suggest that the world is moving towards more and more hybrids, and we identify the key steps in building a successful platform. 3) Failure is more likely than...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that...
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Martha Lagace
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Globalization Globalization December 2014 Article Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World By: Paul M. Healy ,...
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- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
inter-governmental regulation as powerful enough to offer some hope of containing the excesses of surveillance capitalism. When industrial capitalism was moderated we lived in a world where nation View Details