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Research Links - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
production and sale of consumer goods during the Great Depression. In 1935, a selection of photographs from the NAAI exhibition came to Harvard Business School, enhancing photographic collections already... View Details
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Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research
the Industries tab at the top of the page, search for industries. Limiting the search to "Research" will limit the results to recent market, industry and sector reports. Also, a good source for news. View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
advertising, particularly for determined adversaries. In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers’ risks of being defrauded and reward View Details
William C. Procter
Under Procter's guidance, P&G grew out of its mid-western roots as a soap producer into a national consumer goods conglomerate. Procter was responsible for the creation of many famous brands, including... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands... View Details
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Patrick Akl
Growing up in Lebanon, Patrick Akl lived with a fascination for consumer electronics – and with the ever-present fear of war. “We often had to sleep in an underground bunker,” Patrick says. “And the conflict caused setbacks in my father’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
ago, there was much more good art available than there were collectors. Now, for some of the young artists I show, we get more than 100 emails for each available painting. So it’s completely skewed.” But art dealers also have to protect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in Taiwan, for example, can then be produced cheaply in the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship or do something that isn’t a... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
customers abreast of issues according to their region," she notes. The company's customers generate approximately one hundred thousand phone calls and letters every month to support fast-moving progressive issues such as gun control,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
campus lead treks to visit the offices of a group of companies in that field. I attended the New York retail trek, during which we visited a fast-growing consumer goods company, an emerging brand of women’s... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates
drawing upon authentic communicators. “We encourage our interns to rate us on Glassdoor, good or bad,” says Hung. When the company conducts presentations for potential interns, “we always invite second year students to talk about their... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
course, affects investor confidence. Given that fragility, what rules and enforcement are appropriate? The capital markets are so complex and fast-moving that their integrity must in the end rely on self-regulation, rather than on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
the scope of the economic emergency. For a related research paper he was coauthoring with Ben Iverson of Brigham Young University and David Thesmar of MIT, Greenwood marshaled a unique array of data—including airline ticket sales and restaurant tabs—to track the View Details
Keywords: April White
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Ximena Garcia-Rada
which suggested that research would be a good fit for me.” Ximena put her theory to the test by accepting a position as a Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, working with Professor Dan Ariely on... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Queensland Sugar Limited
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers have elected to continue collective marketing through QSL. However, several millers... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain; Network Effects; Supply and Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia
Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Queensland Sugar Limited." Harvard Business School Case 508-038, December 2007. (Revised March 2013.)
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
it's understanding the path to the mainstream market and being smart enough to, A) pick a good mainstream market and, B) assemble the people and partners who give you a disproportionate likelihood of getting there. It's very important not... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
smaller manufacturers that produced passenger doors and ticket punches. The beginnings of a national market, including the rapid rise of department stores and mail order catalog retailers, had tremendous effect on the life of the home View Details