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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
managing director, Cowen & Co., and author of the influential book Entertainment Industry Economics; and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), president and CEO, BMG Entertainment North America. Harold Vogel observed that while new technologies... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
sectors, the U.S. economy, and American workers and their communities. "In fact," observes Stewart, "over the past forty years, virtually every segment of the U.S. economy has required assistance at our borders or overseas." Stewart and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
mainstay of the American economy. So questions about the current Asian economic crisis elicit from him the wry, seen-it-all-before observation that "when you expand, it's always at the wrong time." After all, Hughes points out, with... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
done in the interim. Is my trouble normal? “Unemployment or underemployment is anxiety-provoking,” observed Davis. “This is especially true of MBAs who think they are expected to have ‘perfect’ careers.” Davis said she helps people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
teaching provides an extra-ordinary starting point for this new initiative,” he observes with pride. “The donors who supported the Christensen Center will enable the School to continue to build its global leadership in best practices and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
senior year looking for a job, this credential — knowing that they are going to HBS in two years — can lead to making authentic choices instead of positioning themselves for business school admission,” observes Leopold. “They can now ask,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
34 countries, leading to observations on everything from incentivization to the effects of competition on how firms are organized. “There is a branch of my field that is closer to philosophy,” she says. “Ultimately, though, I want to have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
engine that ensures an optimal fit down to the level of soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed that the 25,000 small IT... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
says. Yet maintaining that healthy lifestyle was a challenge when Flynn was traveling. And she knew she wasn’t the only one facing this problem. As a consultant within the food industry, she observed that many consumers were asking for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
delivered directly to your car? Frist and classmate Nick Alexander (MBA 2015) began to explore an answer to that while they were still at HBS, spending one cold afternoon observing hurried customer interactions at a gas station in... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
relatively high observable quality have the luxury of capturing a buyer’s attention whether an idea is a nascent-stage pitch or a fully formed screenplay. The model suggests that if a writer already has a buyer’s respect, it makes sense... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
observing subsequent sushi rolls that will be added to the conveyor belt later in the meal. Since customers are likely to purchase many sushi rolls over the course of a dinner, our results suggest that [all else being equal] customers may... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and cost (40 percent);... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23
http://www.amacad.org/publications/Challenges.aspx Advertising, the Matchmaker Authors:Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar Publication:RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (summer 2011) Abstract We empirically study the informational role of advertising in matching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
employees, especially those in highly creative roles. Finally, it helps to keep work groups intact and informed of corrective procedures. "We were fortunate to have had the chance to observe and measure changes in a real workplace... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
simultaneously, and there are few templates for developing organizational processes and systems to help them do so. Internally, organizations often struggle to allocate resources toward these different goals and to deal with the trade-offs that they face. I have View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- Web
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog
context, with a protagonist who must determine what to do. Students will experiment, receive real-time feedback, and observe others, an effort to develop practical management skills. Practice and repetition are used to help students... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
the downstream party has the ability to exert a costly effort to increase demand (e.g., through sales promotions, advertising, etc.) during the selling season and compare two situations: one where there is zero lead time (i.e., all demand can be satisfied after View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
industries as diverse as automobiles and pharmaceuticals and began to interview and observe them to see how they created environments ripe for innovation. “We didn’t want to just espouse platitudes,” Hill says. “We wanted to tell full... View Details