Washington (state, US) - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2024
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Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details

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03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

critical to the US economy. Half of the people who work in this country own or work for a small business. So that’s half the jobs. Sometimes small businesses don’t have a seat at the table with policymakers in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Sep 2012
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Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

solid data to answer the question of who mattered. So he made lists of US presidents and British prime ministers that dated back to George Washington in 1789 and Britain's Charles Grey in 1830. He noted how... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We determine, in a competitive setting, the optimal operating regimes for a firm that converts its waste stream into a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three years after declaring that his influential holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

emeritus professor of business at Harvard Business School and a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School in Seattle. McFarlan is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Albert H. Gordon... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

straight and narrow. Washington looks at deregulation The research takes on added weight as Obama-administration regulation protecting financial consumers faces an uncertain future. The US Labor Department’s... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

less than enthusiastic about these ideas. He remarked, “Let me see if I get this question right. We want to create a government position to oversee AI across all segments of the US economy. Great idea.” After citing a number of ways he... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

facing the Internet. Note that in the newspaper industry, digital content initially started with different advertising customers, a different business model, and a whole set of performance characteristics that made it appear unattractive on the metrics traditionally... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details

Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

to their dismissal. A link between tenure and effectiveness We developed a simple model to analyze the relationship between coach tenure and effectiveness using NFL data from 2000 to 2015. The model used... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means chairman, stated "our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the American people. We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

the United States, two new states, Alaska and Oregon, as well as the District of Columbia had legalized the recreational sale of marijuana. They joined Washington and Colorado, which legalized pot in the 2012 election, as well as two... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

in the same spirit by which he had lived during his imprisonment, Mandela joined George Washington in the select company of revolutionaries who use their newly-gained power to establish freer regimes... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

help demystify the frustrating experience and could, if adopted, result in improvements to the US air traffic control system. Fearing's interest in improving performance extends to how a large governmental organization like the Federal... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

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