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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
wide array of projects, but their work wasn’t at all connected. What I saw as the institution’s greatest strength was its combination of field-based conservation work and policy work, but it was dispersed across 100 countries. We decided to focus on nineteen places... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the current Boston Stock Exchange building, a structure that was considered something of a white elephant after Fleet Bank moved out. After buying the building for $10 million, Intercontinental invested $6.5 million in the property before... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors”... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, forthcoming... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Jerry Murphy at The Davis Companies
hard to buy and hard to figure out, but I have fun trying to find a way to make them work every day. What attracted you to this opportunity?I came to The Davis Companies because of the flat structure and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
right there in the heart of Coconut Grove, where all of these Miami characters legal, illegal, international celebrities went through and it just wasn't a coincidence. White: That the pirate story didn't make the book is just a testament... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
Apple's Tim Cook is one of an increasing number of CEOs using the corporate bully pulpit to promote social views. @iStock In their paper Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment, the researchers address two key... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
a series of six "filters" to answer this critical question. If a company is going to make the investment required to aggressively pursue an Internet opportunity, management needs to believe in each of the following: Online... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model. The everyday presence of beauty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
on the project’s new Web site: www.hbs.edu/centennial/im/. It’s participatory history in the making and available to anyone who has an HBS story to tell. The Web site also features a multimedia history of HBS, a gallery of historical... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
door, the company was heading for bankruptcy. Instead of a three-month stint, Tisch stayed on for the next decade as Bulova's president. His strategy: buy components (and eventually whole watches) from suppliers, rather than manufacture... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the Bruce View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
systems, compliance systems. [Markets] do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. Q: So the problem was making the maximization of shareholder wealth the primary goal? A: The idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
they were converted into securities and sold again and again. We can't fix our current economic problems by simply spending more money to buy bad debt. Rather, we need real innovation that creates jobs and drives productive economic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
customer. "Sometimes it makes sense to have a conversation with customers to find out how satisfied they are, and there are other times when the vendor might be better off drawing inferences from observations of actual customer... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations. Massachusetts, for example, has a program to buy development rights on agricultural lands. This ensures that farming will always have a place in the state. However, it takes up to three years for a project to be completed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
convinced that every banker would want this technology. It ran on an Apple II, and I decided to try to get a job at Apple that day. Ever since then I have focused on getting computers to more people, making them usable for a broad range... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
1971—had grown into one of the most admired brands in its industry. The founders were intent on seeing the company they’d built live on, a hope that aligned with Holley’s goals: to buy something to maintain for the long term, and to find... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and laws that allow companies to... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
what they want and when they don't. . . . In the case of a new cell phone, I don't know what I want. . . . Here's where companies make the mistake of competing on technical features for short-term gains instead of providing customers with... View Details