Pulp and Paper Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track

management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

MBA students in their startup endeavors—Kraus says colleagues have frequently asked her for the names of other women founders and CEOs, within the tech industry and beyond. She... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
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Innovation: Frozen Assets

and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food sales spiked at the outset of... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

15 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

advance—Gupta could use that historical data to see how spending on different types of ads affected those decisions. The findings from the research were recently published in the working paper Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

Marketing." A few of the papers in the issue came from that conference—the article on the selling of the cast-iron stove, America's first consumer durable; and on "sharp dealing" in the British door-to-door... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

Wang and John Zhou, Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors has become one of the top downloaded papers on the online Social Science Research Network, sparking intense interest in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

affect it? A: The kind of technology transfer my coauthors Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and I study in our paper occurs when a parent of a multinational company provides information about View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

businesses. Such companies gain advantage because regulators tend to look to the most technologically advanced operations when setting industry standards. On the whole, larger and more prominent firms are... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company —... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

enforcement according to his measure of employment intensity, presenting his findings in the 2014 paper Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement. The data supported Heese's hypothesis. Companies in the top... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections

backgrounds or experience levels of the top management team -- the CEO, CFO, and chief scientific officer, in particular -- aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," explains HBS associate professor Monica C. Higgins,... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

anxiety impacts the quality of a financial planning experience and the integrity of the resulting financial plan, both of which will impact customer satisfaction. The financial services industry has... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

the Student Association, Herrero was impressed by what he saw of HBS as an institution. After graduation, he served as a president and board member of the HBS Club (later the Harvard Club) of Argentina. Following a long View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

Fast Answer

Historical Research - India

Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80 India, Raj and Empire
Diaries, letters, maps, sketches and official View Details

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and pursues an action research agenda with practitioners, which results in multiple papers and course notes, a project-based field course, and a... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

taught me great discipline in how to study, how to prepare, how to think,” he says. Upon graduation he joined the paper and packaging company Rand-Whitney. From there, he and... View Details

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