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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
development, wealth, and job creation in the inner city. The advisory component of its mission seemed well underway, but raising a fund to directly finance client companies had proved challenging. As Next Street considered expanding its capacity to help clients achieve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
remembered the Emperor. People's lives have been shattered by these huge upheavals in German history, yet they also have moved on. Businesses too have been destroyed and have come back. A good many of the top German firms today have their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
Many managers know that even when their firm launches a change initiative with great fanfare, it is tough to make the changes last. More often than not, employees wearily dismiss the initiative as another management fad. Soon enough,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
continued in the 1960s, fueled by a booming stock market and corporate strategies that were heavily geared toward growth and diversification. In a classic 1960 article, "Marketing Myopia," Theodore Levitt was sharply critical of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
responsible for the deployment of cell phones to two-thirds of Afghans. My research shows that throughout the developing world successful organizations like Roshan must inevitably take on more tasks than their counterpart firms in more... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
schedules, with the opportunity to work from home on more than just an occasional basis. These preferences have helped fuel the rise of the “gig economy” and the rapid growth of companies like HourlyNerd, which plays matchmaker between... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- Profile
David Kang
industry and build industry connections," says David. "It also gave me something to bring to the table at HBS." With a firm foundation in traditional business skills, David looked for something different from HBS.... View Details
- Fast Answer
Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments
DIT course assignment. To identify and analyze firms using company data and reports, you may begin with more than one of the following databases: View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a number of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
in Peru This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
are held longer than want DVDs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
did not go unnoticed in the industry. This point was critical to the study. In most of the previous research done on disruptive technology, the established firms simply had no idea what was happening until it was too late. The question... View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
information content. The theory yields interesting results about the informational role of targeted advertising and its consequences. First, targeting can itself serve as a signal on product attributes. Second, the effectiveness of targeting depends not only on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co.... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
itself after the tsunami, as well as how the firm evolves. The (C) case discusses the future plans of the firm including growth and succession issues. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
with small companies looking for help, struggles to define a growth plan for the future. The company, started as a class project in HBS' FIELD 3 course, is assessing three growth paths: shifting its target... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded by the authors of the new book, Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was... View Details