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01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

women's beauty products enterprise Tweezerman faced the dilemma that every entrepreneurial growth company eventually confronts: "How much bigger can we get—can we handle the risk, the scale, the exposure, and the demands on our... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

01 Sep 2012
News

Faculty Books

(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the... View Details

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

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
News

Case Study: Paper Chase

operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and View Details

Career Coach

Robert Kimmel

Robert Kimmel (HBS '03) brings 15 years of operations management and consulting experience. He enjoys working with students who are exploring moves into operational roles, considering a departure from consulting, or deciding between consulting and operations positions.... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

trade-offs between product variety and flexibility. Harvard Business Review Webinar Student Perspective on Entrepreneurial Journey Having worked in consulting and fintech, Peter Gumulia (MBA 2021) of... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities

graduate and intern, to review more than a hundred LinkedIn profiles, helping former servicemen and women revise their online presence for optimal career advantage. “Technically, we made over a hundred or so... View Details

05 Oct 2021
News

Launch Signals

moment of uncertainty,” added Fitzgerald. The pair spent four years interviewing assault survivors and refining their product before launching in February 2020—and relaunching in June 2020. “Honestly, we were very concerned initially that... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; startup; safety; wearable tech; women; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Profile

Patrick Chun

Patrick Chun's interest in both entrepreneurship and Asia, partially satisfied by his roles as managing editor of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review and President of the Korean Association at Harvard College, was further stimulated by a... View Details

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

tie. People were asked in an online survey about a man who attended a formal black-tie party at his golf club wearing either a black bowtie—the norm that most of the other men were following—or a nonconforming red bowtie. Survey-takers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

24 Apr 2014
News

Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers

enterprise that offers discounts for products and services exclusively to active-duty military, veterans, and their families. ID.me empowers individuals to prove who they are online and get access to... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

states such as New York, California, and Tennessee, we are seeing meaningful partnerships, to the benefit of both the students and the economy. What’s next in education? “Technology has the potential to profoundly change education. The question mark is if high-quality,... View Details

Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

24 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

ten weeks in the company, I was able to design an online marketing strategy and create acquisition funnel metrics to test different campaigns and selling pitches to brokers. I was also able to work closely with the View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

“You’re able to see how real people have tried the products so you get a sense of how they work for someone just like you,” says Shah. “We source the video reviews from a diverse community of real people... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be scaled back to just one or two? Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2016
First Look

April 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the... View Details