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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so, we could connect the dots maybe in ways that other people couldn't. So that's number one. Number two is, from the get go, our notion was green is green. Right? So this is not a feel good marketing campaign. This is really because this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the 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 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
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle) By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
we don’t know on our website. We have property managers working with us. Part of getting a fast start was that we knew the industry. We had already been there on the ground, going to open houses, learning the business. We had already done all the initial start-up... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
experts have deemed this approach inadequate. As Pankaj Ghemawat notes: The emphasis on folding non-market considerations into the analysis of market relationships tends to focus on the effects of non-market variables . . . at the expense... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
Many of us are sailing toward retirement with the hope that Social Security, personal savings, and money saved in an employer's 401(k) or 403(b) plan will add up to the magic sum required to enjoy our remaining years in reasonable style.... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
of marketing at EnerNOC USA, which helps large organizations in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom track their electricity use. “Human beings don't like to change, and everything involving energy management does imply the need to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
everything. I would get in at 6 a.m. to clean the office and make coffee, and then just do whatever needed to be done in order to move the ball forward, from sales and marketing to finance and accounting (top of my mind during the first... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
will in fact homogenize consumption patterns, and a few superstar products will emerge as winners in the market place. In this study, using two large customer transactions data sets obtained from an online music service and an online DVD... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Abstract Behavioral economic-based interventions are emerging as powerful tools to help individuals accomplish their own goals, including weight loss. Deposit contract incentive systems give participants the opportunity to put their money... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) could feel his heart beating as he verified that the money had been deposited correctly. It had. And each officer had received a text message to that effect. But none of the men had been able to read the message or... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
East Coast finance industry pay scales, you have to pay what the market will bear if you want the talent-yada, yada, blah, blah, yada, yada, blah, blah.Yeah, I get all that. But here's what I'm wondering (and I bet I'm not alone): All... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
I first came to HBS, I knew it was already considered the world’s greatest business school. What I didn’t know was what an MBA degree was, or even what the initials stood for. More surprises: I soon found that the School was in a shaky financial condition, reduced to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
verge of extraordinary economic growth. And with GDP growth, people will start to travel. Except back then, there was no market segmentation, whatever-- when you talk about traveling to China, everybody had the same itinerary, the same... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
thinking,” Kang said to laughter. “It’s another online dating site.” But VC firms have shown a great deal of interest—almost $150 million worth since early 2010—in the revitalized online dating sector, which market research company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg