Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (5,426) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (5,426) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 74 of 5,426 Results →
  • June 2007
  • Article

Which Levers Boost ROI?

By: Margeaux Cvar and John A. Quelch
The article refers to ROI, or return on investment, and focuses on a rational strategy for financial markets that uses outside industry comparisons. The first step is to identify parallel businesses that have similar characteristics such as growth, capital, and market... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Financial Markets; Investment Return
Related
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • HBS Case

Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

murder of 17 students and teachers in Parkland. And with those words, Stack, a gun owner and gun rights supporter, set in motion a series of corporate actions that may serve as a model for other CEOs trying to balance their personal... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

his office isn't as big as Jenny's. And he blames others when he screws up. Joe is an HNAP, or a high-need-for-achievement professional, according to Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

pivot into venture capital and impact investing to ensure that communities like mine – Black, queer, and disabled – have access to capital to build products and services that include us by design. However, starting a company with View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

liquidation, and class-level as well as overall recovery rates. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1573311 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Second Thoughts About a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

The Trap Of Marginal Thinking In the late 1990s, Blockbuster dominated the movie rental industry in the United States. It had stores all over the country, a significant size advantage, and what appeared to be a stranglehold on the market. Blockbuster had made huge... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models complement one another: MGM makes important capital investments in theaters tailored to CdS's shows that are located in the middle of MGM casinos; CdS acts as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

PureTech Ventures in 2011

By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston
Related
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

Conference, which brings together over 1,200 attendees to explore a salient theme on Africa, and the fall retreat in Cape Cod. I also serve as a board member of the HBS Women in Investing Club, View Details
  • 08 Nov 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

I graduated from Harvard Business School last month with 900 indomitable classmates as part of the Class of 2021. I feel a deep sense of gratitude to my family, friends, colleagues, and everyone else who made this journey from Bombay to... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

on foreign income; it is undertaking a serious reexamination of that now. In terms of the political debate, the ability to defer U.S. taxation until profits are repatriated is often framed as providing an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2014
  • Article

Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process

By: Raul O. Chao, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no‐go... View Details
Keywords: Stage-Gate Process; Production; Operations; Product Development; Innovation and Invention
Related
  • January 2008
  • Background Note

Convertible Arbitrage

By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
The goal of this simulation is to understand how convertible bonds can be viewed as a portfolio of simpler securities and to introduce an over-the-counter market. The convertible bonds that are available during the simulation are at-the-money and in-the-money so that... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods
Related
  • September 2016
  • Article

Do Display Ads Influence Search?: Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

By: Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels and Sunil Gupta
As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as click-through rate (CTR) and cost per acquisition (CPA). However, these standard... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
Related
  • August 2014 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

ANA (A)

By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan
Related
  • 01 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

One night during his first-year at HBS, Josh Latson (MBA 2015) shadowed an emergency room physician through his rounds in a busy urban hospital. Josh was there as a member of the school’s Health Care Club,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

employees from their jobs. Other influences were cited as potential causes for what may be happening. For example, John Miller cited leadership as an issue, commenting that,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

selection as an important, but understudied, element of organizational control systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne