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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-070 When the Name Is the Game Authors:Marco Bertini, John Gourville, and Elie Ofek Publication:Business Strategy Review 22, no. 3 (2011) Abstract In Romeo and Juliet, the fair maiden asks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52330 December 2016 International Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could lead them to ignore what seemed... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
just on clicks and not on calls and direction requests, I’d be less inclined to think that Yelp ads work for these businesses.” Ad effectiveness best for small businesses In recent years, internet advertising has become the fastest-growing View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development of the now male-dominated tech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing research confirmed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
access capital” Historically, this segment of the market has been small compared to the $700 billion in small business bank credit assets. But since the onset of the financial crisis, and particularly during the economic recovery, there... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
“Our market opportunities include leasing the drone technology and proprietary seeders, and selling the seed pods to other organizations worldwide to help them reforest the planet.” Lord of the Trees is raising View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni
beverages are provided, members can bring their own meal or snack. Potluck style, where each member brings a different item as part of a larger spread for the group to share. Food fund, where each member contributes a small amount of View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
hand-poured specialty mixes, as seen here. Gold Rush was up and running just in time for a pandemic-fueled resurgence, when “anyone who didn’t discover sourdough discovered vinyl,” she says. Today’s global market for vinyl is estimated at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
come to us through our Web site,” he says. “In the way that paperbacks turned out to be an extension of the market for hardcover books, I think the Internet is an extension of the print audience rather than a replacement.” As for his own... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers an introspection of his tenure. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But knowing what to do is a... View Details