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  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

  Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

consumer tastes, increased competition, and evolving advertising trends and sales channels. Seeing innovation as a key to future success, in 2016 the company established eighteen94 capital, its corporate venture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Sarah Hodges

    Sarah is a Partner at Pillar VC, a seed-stage venture firm co-founded by Boston's most accomplished CEOs, including the leaders of DraftKings, Ginkgo Bioworks, Circle, Wayfair and Tripadvisor. Sarah was... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital
    • 05 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 5

    attractive to businesses, especially to e-commerce firms that thrive on global and scalable business models. Yet, most global e-commerce players, with a few exceptions, have failed to achieve significant success in Asia. This article... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Profile

    Philipp Schäelli

    started out exploring options ranging from Venture Capital to activist hedge fund investing and joined several clubs like the Entrepreneurship and VC/PE club to learn more about these industries and start to... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • Web

    Harvard Business School

    Avon Products, American International Group, and CVS-Caremark Corporation. John Oxendine MBA 1971 In 1981, John Oxendine was named president and CEO of Broadcast Capital Fund, a venture View Details
    • May 2016
    • Case

    The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details
    Keywords: Asda; Costco; David Glass; Convenience Stores; Discount Retailing; Dollar Stores; Doug McMillon; E-commerce; Online Retail; General Merchandise; Grocery; Lee Scott; Mike Duke; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Neighborhood Market; Sam Walton; Sam's Club; Store Formats; Supercenter; Supermarket; Warehouse Clubs; Merchandising; Walmart; Wal-Mart; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Banks and Banking; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Global Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Wages; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Web; Web Sites; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Arkansas; Bentonville
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    • 12 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 12, 2006

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

    that are valuable to the firm relative to employees under variable-pay contracts. Moreover, such efforts are concentrated on innovation ideas that are not specific to the standard task performed by the proposing employee but are... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 14 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 14, 2016

    data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a positive effect of management on View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 13

    venture capital. The program provides "IP for equity" and has proven very successful in achieving its main goals—improved morale among researchers who like knowing their technology is being used, improved relationships with the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Nov 2021
    • News

    Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

    not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate... View Details
    • 15 Dec 2023
    • News

    Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

    Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 01 Aug 1998
    • News

    High Honors

    business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2002
    • News

    It's academic. (Not!)

    compensation dynamics, board evolution, entrepreneurial finance, and founder-CEO succession. He's also turning the spotlight on venture capital firms. "VC View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 21 Feb 2005
    • Op-Ed

    Is Business Management a Profession?

    recently learned from such phenomena as the weak link between executive compensation and firm performance, and the impotence of so many corporate boards, American managers have become quite adept at... View Details
    Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    End Game

    Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
    • 28 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

    equity firms have billions of dollars of investible cash—although whether any of these investors have the appetite to risk their capital in the present environment is yet to be determined. And of course, an... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
    • 13 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

    opportunity for the investment pendulum to swing from fast-money ventures to slower, potentially more rewarding endeavors. “If you are willing dive into the frontier of scientific journal articles, the rewards of science-based innovation... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 24 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 24

    developers, and brands. Founder/CEO Ranjith Kumaran must make strategic decisions about how to fund PunchTab's early operations and growth given the many options available: individual angel investors, super angel funds, incubators, and seed funds inside traditional... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne