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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
nearly 12 percent that day, a loss of $2 billion in market cap. The poor results were attributed to the aggressive rollout of 144 new "centricity" stores—revamped retail formats featuring a customer-centric operating model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
quickly, a job hunter should target two hundred positions. These are not job openings, but two hundred positions you think may be right for you. For example, if there were thirty appropriate sales positions (not openings) at a certain... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
potential for embarrassment, and even religious conviction? Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:First Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
demand seemed like the biggest obstacles to commercialization. Eventually, my co-founder and I realized that our target suppliers needed help scaling their technology, so we parted ways and joined other companies in the alternative... View Details
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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog
appropriate for: Marketing professionals charged with creating, nurturing, and managing brand value; Entrepreneurs looking to create their own brands in the consumer/retail space; Consumer/retail general managers and consultants engaged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Capital Association. When it comes to technology start-ups, Accel’s niche, Breyer ascribes the firm’s success to “a balance of people judgment, market intuition, as well as luck,” with luck sometimes claiming top billing. He candidly... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Classic Lines
museums and auction houses. As the Woodstock generation increasingly limits its rockin' to the front-porch variety, Davidson notes that one big target market has become "baby boomers moving into prime... View Details
- Profile
Darrin Rahn
Farmers of America. "My brothers and I [Darrin is the middle child of five] wanted to start a business as an FFA project," Darrin explains. "Making and selling hay to local livestock farmers was the original business idea. As the business grew, we began... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
Technology Integration by Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School Press) In the old days, coping with technological change was simple: you kept track of developments, tried to decide if they had legs, and implemented them when the market... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
role of your suppliers’ resources? End users are paranoid about being left with customized code that they are highly dependent upon and no one to turn to if that supplier somehow disappears or goes out of business. Credibility is imperative here. As you View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to share.” "I didn't understand why people were putting all this information out there," says John, now an assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne