Maine - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

EDUCATION Dartmouth College, Human Geography, 2013 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Jane the Bakery, Freckle Education, Bain & Co. HBS ACTIVITIES Section President Aspa Lekka “MY MAIN REASON FOR AN MBA IS TO BE A BETTER VERSION OF MYSELF.” HOME... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

main classes, and so we can sort of carry the social significance from Sunday into our classroom on Monday and just talk about the ads as consumers, but also turning the tables and examining them as brand managers, and so examining, what... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

occurring in parts of the Black butterfly that are further along the reinvestment curve. While the path forward is promising, says Dlodlo, there are challenges. The main issue is financing. Madikizela will ultimately carry a $3 million... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

Zaki realized that poor infrastructure was the main barrier to accessing medical care. “If the roads weren’t paved or there wasn’t a functioning ambulance to get a patient to an appropriate health care setting, they couldn’t receive... View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

Cocktails) The main forces behind that surge have to do with changing attitudes around drinking. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the pandemic opened up a fault line, with a 21 percent spike in excessive drinking on one side, according to a study... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

2010
Casebook

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

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06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

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01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

Rowan and John D. MacDonald 1967–1974, 1986) JDM on the Production Cycle “Carl Garrett liked to leave the main offices and walk over to one of the production areas and climb to the catwalk and lean on the rail and look down at the acres... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

in June. "I'm specifically interested in ‘star' knowledge workers - in this case, the analysts in investment banks." He and Associate Professor Ashish Nanda have spent three years building a proprietary data set and examining how investment banks leverage their... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Research Summary

Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty

My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details

George H. Hartford

Expanding beyond its initial base of imported tea products, Hartford established one of the largest chains of grocery stores, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in the United States. Hartford was an early proponent of advertising premium “give-aways”... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Research Summary

Overview

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

Charles A. Coffin

Coffin led General Electric into the production of other electrical products besides arc lights, including railway motors and alternating generators and transformers. In the late 1890s, Coffin was able to negotiate a patent agreement with Westinghouse Electric, which... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Research Summary

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

Milton Bradley

Bradley created a business that has become synonymous with fun, family games. Initially marketing British games in the US, Bradley went on to patent a variety of new games including Zoetrope or “Wheel of Life” and Historoscope, a kaleidoscope device that displayed... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

John F. Dryden

In 1881, Dryden became head of the company he helped found six years prior. He grew the company from less than $4 million in receipts in 1879 to more than $17 million in receipts by 1899, and from 1 million policies in 1885 to 10 million in 1911 by tapping the mass... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Frank A. Munsey

Frank Munsey revolutionized the publishing industry by bringing financial rigor to the business. Munsey was a pioneer in connecting advertising prices to circulation volume making large-scale magazine production affordable and profitable. Due to his efforts, Munsey’s... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Leon L. Bean

Beginning with a self-made rubber hunting boot, Bean created a retailing giant and became one of the pioneers of the mail-order industry, introducing the first Bean’s catalog in 1914. He instilled a “customer first” culture with generous return and service policies... View Details