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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. “For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging,” says Reinhardt. “It’s hard to imagine two areas of greater importance, or with greater... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
explanation was offered most provocatively by Tony Wanless, who commented that "B-schools are university cash cows, and the only way to justify their fees is to go where the mass market wants it to go. So they concentrate on what... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
change, oil companies are diversifying their businesses, putting money toward renewable energy sources and green technology. While sustainable funds shun fossil fuel producers, which contribute half of the world’s greenhouse gases,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
industry practice and discuss potential directions for future research. Download the article: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBlackRock Money Market Management in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. Laird, Pamela Walker. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998. Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A... View Details
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
kept getting longer, and I finally realized I might be able to do a service by putting all this information into one package. Silverthorne: Is the academic job market for accounting PhDs a difficult field to break into? Rouen: Every year,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano,... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
system because there will be fewer obstacles standing in the way of physician innovations, and because — if markets follow money, which we teach in business school — the successful management of chronic diseases and conditions is where... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
institutions don't want to burden themselves with so many students who have financial needs. DM: One of the other recommendations you give is to put money in Black-owned banks. Part of the rationale, of course, there is that Black-owned... View Details
- Web
Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Trade Catalogs National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
Scalability Matters The data showed that the finance industry rewarded talented workers to a far greater extent than did other industries. Bankers who had gone to top engineering schools made vastly more money than those who had gone to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the ultimate challenge. "People... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
not tell the story, however. “You need to prove that you can make money at the early stage. Markets are only obvious in retrospect. Fintech was thought of as a nonsense market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
SOMETHING NEW happening with the newspaper ownership model. With John Henry, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos, we're starting to get some enlightened buyers. It's the first ray of hope I've seen in a while. The Seattle Times is one of only five newspapers in the top 50... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
Harvard Business School professors Richard S. Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal, who provided a historical perspective on Levitt's work at the Globalization of Markets colloquium held May 28-30. The twentieth-year anniversary of the article has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
innovations, companies and markets necessary to save the planet. To memorialize their content, organizers from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative asked panelists to share (in writing) the main messages they hoped attendees would... View Details