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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
business for 20 years. Its acquisition of Jet.com, however, let Walmart aggressively expand the top line of its platform revenue and bring in a team that understood platforms. Although still far behind Amazon, Walmart’s View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
economic research has examined the influence of policy movements on bank lending behavior, capital flows, and market responses in the public sector, the private equity industry—despite its substantial size and pervasive presence—has not been systematically View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
James ("Jamie") Dimon's (MBA 1982) role on Wall Street has been much analyzed during his 30-year career. Since taking charge of JPMorgan Chase in 2005, the company has become one of the nation's largest banks, with assets of $2.4... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
strategic changes Assess valuation scenarios by identifying and analyzing synergies from a merger and acquisition example Who Will Benefit Senior Managers and Consultants Analysts Aspiring Finance... View Details
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Deals Q2 - Course Catalog
will be structured around actual corporate deals, selected for the complex issues of law and business that they raise. Students will research and analyze these transactions in order to present their most important aspects and lessons to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management Systems Corporation,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a merger. Finansbank AŞ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
motorists represent the prevalence of “consumer inertia” in the retail gas market. Consumer inertia is the tendency of some customers to buy or continue buying a product, even when superior options exist. Companies that can accurately account for consumer inertia when... View Details
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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog
considerations of customer data use. 3. Executing Customer Management Strategies: Students will examine trade-offs in customer acquisition vs. retention, monetization strategies, and how to balance personalization with scale. 4.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
MaterialsFurman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions Harvard Business School Case 905-066 Profiles a firm that was reacquired by two companies with different degrees of success. Highlights integration challenges present in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase ambiguities in state-firm relations and how states are interested actors in creating opportunities for firms to navigate the federal legislation. We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Worldwide the most future-focused agency in the industry by becoming a leader in digital innovation. The case explores the tensions within the company as David Jones attempts to change the company to compete in an industry undergoing digital transformation. The case... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog
and analyze data. Given the rapid evolution of this field, we’ll emphasize adaptable frameworks and timeless strategies alongside best-in-class tools. Guest speakers from companies such as Adobe, HubSpot, Klaviyo, SEMRush, and OpenAI will... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
full-time in a high pressure career), I am helping to build a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy for the Asia Pacific region of a major multi-national company. It’s big and complex, and the hiring volumes are daunting, but the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
decisions without the benefit of hindsight? The authors offer a model for making better decisions, describing key red flags to watch for and detailing needed decision-making safeguards. They analyze past bad decisions in business,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
and the environment will make the relevance of microprocess research findings to broader organizational questions easier to discern and therefore more likely to disseminate to the larger field of organizational research. We empirically assess this assertion by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration levels by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
experience. Prioritizing the shortest tasks is particularly detrimental to productivity. Actively grouping similar tasks also reduces productivity, in stark contrast to productivity gains from exogenous grouping, indicating deviation costs outweigh benefits from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
begin by analyzing restaurant reviews that are identified by Yelp's filtering algorithm as suspicious or fake-and treat these as a proxy for review fraud (an assumption we provide evidence for). We present four main findings. First,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel