Family Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2024
Case

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

humanizing effect on a lot of us and on how we approach business. I always knew that success would enable me to be able to take care of my family and have control over my own destiny. But what I didnÕt realize is how much it would mean to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

And then, they offered this all to their own employees and developed much more extensive elder care benefits and family leave policies, understanding that people are going to be living this multi-stage life course. So they were one of the... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
News

Conducting Business

family who knew more about money management than most money managers on Wall Street. Everyone looked confident and sophisticated. I felt like a complete dope—an ex-Naval officer with a degree in English. This was going to be a short... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

Goldman, Sachs & Co. before starting his own California-based investment management firm in 1978. Since his retirement in1995, Clark has added more hands-on involvement to his longtime financial support of nonprofits. His efforts have... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into fashion, the command-and-control... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

answers to secure donations. Blonde and Blue-eyed? Globalizing Beauty, c.1945-c.1980 Author:Geoffrey Jones Periodical:Economic History Review 61, no. 1 (February 2008) Abstract This article examines the globalization of the beauty industry between 1945 and 1980. This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2023
News

Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

consulting firm to survey alumni members to better understand how the club can serve them at various stages of their careers and family lives. In addition, the club recently established the Younger Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence at venture capital View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

often assigned the most difficult jobs in labor with little possibility for promotion. “The problem was not that steel companies did not hire blacks, but that steel firms did not promote their black employees,” historian John Hinshaw... View Details

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

the reverse flow of products are complex and are not optimized for the level of returns some retailers will see. Antonio Moreno (@tmorenog) is the Sicupira Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Leonard A. Schlesinger:... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

01 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

found the prices so reasonable that he returned to consider — and, eventually, purchase — something in the ten-carat range. Birnbaum notes that this particular client first made contact with the firm five years earlier. In a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

Clinton’s advance staff, experience launching a low-cost airline in China, and time at UBS Warburg’s London office. Ogden, whose CV includes various roles in finance and the nonprofit sector, worked most recently for Bridges Ventures, a London-based venture-capital... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

motion to disqualify a firm that inaccurately stated it had not contributed to current school board members’ election campaigns—yet had incorporated two PACS donating $3,000 to the sitting school board president’s campaign—did not pass.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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