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Past Issues - Alumni
the next generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS Portrait View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
patterns across countries or by investigating listing decisions across borders. In both cases, firms are presumed to be entirely local. The limited understanding of multinational finance we had was from survey evidence, including the work of the Harvard Multinational... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Authors:Heidi K. Gardner, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order to perform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
distribute products, this is how you price them, this is how you brand them, this is how leadership is optimized, this is how you design organizations, and this is how you motivate people. Take any subject, they were all grounded in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Leonard M. Harlan (MBA '61, DBA '65), president of Castle Harlan, Inc., who has been a guest lecturer in Poorvu's class several times over the years. Part of this understanding is learning how to make deals in a fragmented industry where nonstandard View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
present to their boards of directors, which were made up of two-to-four alumni. The team in Spangler 205 included Pieterjan Goedertier, Ben Samuels, Rachel Blank, Ambuj Kashyap, Jenn Volk, and Amy Shah as the student management team and Brit Dewey (MBA 1996), managing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and corporate sponsors; naming rights; 29,500 season tickets (including 15,000 “charter seats”); and the loans it would take to cover the price tag for a $357 million ballpark. “Larry is the nicest person in the world, but he is also a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007 highs. While the United States represents only 19 percent of the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
billion in sales, many believed that a more disciplined approach to operations would be important for future growth. As a result, the company hired Bob Nardelli, a former GE executive, to lead the change. When Bob Nardelli became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
U.S. companies spent a staggering $285 billion on advertising in 2006, according to Advertising Age. That's a lot of dollars and expectations being handed to advertising managers to generate returns. But do marketing managers allocate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock prices not reflecting the impact on employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
to avoid intense price competition for the larger segment. A firm that conducts market research may therefore invest less in R&D and earn lower post-launch profits than a rival that has forgone such research. Backlash to Arbitration:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
clusters due to population densities. Enable them to congregate with part-time access to coworking offices. They will self-organize according to project necessity or their own desires for face time. Remote-first will not be without... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
pricing, customer selection, and management of prices and accounts in an inherently uncertain, volatile demand environment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-424 The a2... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
comment is spoken in an offhand way, but that ability to understand how a business will scale has been a key factor in some of DFJ’s enormous multiple returns. Today, DFJ spans affiliate networks in more than 30 cities around the world with over $7 View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
purchased by an employee. Subanalyses tracked beverage purchases, including calories and price per beverage. Results: Employees self-identified as white (73%); black (10%); Latino (7%); and Asian (10%). Compared to white employees, Latino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
hundreds of billions in additional taxes to pay for the health care of the sick. Health care expenditures roughly follow Pareto's Law: Twenty percent of users spend 80 percent of the money. If the healthy 80 percent do not buy health... View Details