Buying On Margin - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

YouTube views. By contrast, Nestlé's self-explanatory "From Maine Water Springs to You: The Journey of Poland Springs Water" has barely cracked 500 views. So why did one water commercial sparkle on YouTube,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mention the words religion and business in one breath, and chances are good that someone will take offense. It's a common conviction within most Western societies that the two do not and should not be mixed—ever. Yet when Laura Nash and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

additional 60,000 rural villages. By relying exclusively on low-income women as their frontline sales force, it also provided a significant source of income to a traditionally marginalized group. Q: What are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

that just happens. It is something they create. The examples are legion. Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit on a silicon substrate because the hand work involved in manually connecting lots of tiny wires annoyed him. He... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't come easy without an... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

key negotiation strategies in the courses Negotiations and Deals. Both courses stress what corporate leaders learn from experience, that a manager's success depends largely on keen negotiation skills, whether the manager is trying to seal... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

visited HBS and performed tricks that blew Thomke away. "He's an amazing performer, and my curiosity went through the roof. I felt like a young boy again." Thomke was teaching a course in the MBA program on innovation in 2009 and had an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China, but new cases have decreased sharply since then. As of May 25, only 16 new daily cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total number of cases to 11,206 and 267 deaths. This represents View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

them a game plan. After that, winning is up to the players on the field. It is their leadership that matters. The actions of many leaders seizing the moment create the margin of victory. When people have... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

Six National Football League head coaches were fired on December 31, or “Black Monday,” as it’s known in the sport. The infamous tradition begins immediately after the conclusion of each NFL regular season and represents efforts by... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

their businesses while staying true to their cultural roots. We sat down with Associate Professor Mukti Khaire, lead author of Noma: A Lot on the Plate; and Associate Professor Anat Keinan and Professor Michael I. Norton, authors of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

would have precluded the Massachusetts Investors Trust from buying a large block of ARD stock. Luckily, Motley used his connections and financial savvy to help ARD obtain exemptions from this section and others View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in supply chain management, service operations, and the investor's perspective on operations to MBA students and executive education participants. Fisher, the UPS Professor of Operations... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the jury is still... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average quality of ideas offered for sale at different stages. Luo... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response.... View Details