American Well - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

Francisco 49ers football team, and Grousbeck, CEO of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. The fund focuses on sports media content, an industry headed to $60 billion in revenue, according to the Causeway partnership. Higgins says the industry encompasses... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

illustrates the potential for creative and strategic negotiation to overcome what many regard as impossibly high barriers—as well as the painful lesson that negotiating virtuosity plus the election of a charismatic leader hardly suffice... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

document her recipes. And I thought the food is just amazing, yet it's a region of China that is not very well known. But over the years, those recipes got shelved a little bit. Only two years ago, WildChina was celebrating its 15th year... View Details

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707442 PublicationsMasters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age Authors:Steven Rosefielde and D. Quinn Mills Publication:New York: Cambridge University Press,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

American retailers are heading into a holiday shopping season unlike any other as the spiraling COVID-pandemic and limp economy threaten consumer spending. We asked Harvard Business School faculty members—in particular, authors of recent... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder... View Details

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

as hard as it can be to overcome infrastructure issues, Gordon’s challenges go well beyond lemon shortages and umbrella access: She’s a first-time entrepreneur trying to build a family business in a country with an ever-shifting stance... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders are American options and their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

venture capital, private equity, public markets, and alternate investments through corporate partnerships. The team is thrilled to be partnering with many corporate sponsors this year including American Securities, Warburg Pincus, The... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Leadership Now Project, which was founded 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy. “This is not asking businesses who are apolitical to suddenly become political,” Lewin says. “This is asking businesses that are already very... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

School of Business, recounts his history at GE in his recent book, Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. And in this first episode of a special two-part Skydeck interview with Immelt, we talk about his rise to CEO,... View Details

03 May 2021
What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for Americans and, by extension, their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

American employees, firms, and the broader economy. Related to this, the big factor in work that’s going to be a management and policy challenge other than technology is the changing demographics of the workforce in almost all of the... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

The House that Howard Built

Achievement, the Model UN, the state math contest — if there was a competition, I would enter it.” Thus the youthful Howard became an early adventurer, an exchange student in the American Field Service’s first-ever overseas program.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule, the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details