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- 01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal
recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since the 1920s — just before the Great Depression.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
High Brow
You could be forgiven for not knowing it by the look of the average bloke on the street, but American men annually drop $19.5 billion on “hair services” and $5 billion on grooming products, the New York Times (December 25, 2003) reported.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
Tobias Photo courtesy of Harcourt Author and columnist Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) discussed executive pay and American attitudes about compensation in an article in Parade magazine (March 2, 2003), for which he is personal finance editor.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
You Outsource Your Marketing? Few companies own all the marketing expertise they need, especially of the left-brain, analytic variety. Professor of Management Practice Gail McGovern outlines the pros and cons of turning over your View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science Institute. He was elected a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 05 May 2017
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Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
feature full-service restaurants. The changes are in reaction to a market that, as the Times notes, is in flux: After decades of decline, independent bookstores have rebounded. The American Booksellers... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
real market would permit Americans to buy health insurance for themselves, not from a shopper like an HMO. Americans are rejecting what they view as the unfair tactics that... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos
someone else has run away with the whole market." Venkatesan points to Apple, which waited for better distribution systems in India before it established its presence. "But Samsung didn't wait, and has the whole market now." The book, he... View Details
- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
he calls “the cross-country test.” To wit: “Are you really going to want to wait eight hours to recharge your vehicle?” says Camargo, who positioned the first Cadillac hybrid for the American market in 2013... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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George C. Lodge
produced twelve books and a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Award-winning Harvard Business Review articles); served as a chief architect of the cornerstone Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) course; and guided the launch of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, five African American students arrived at HBS. What they encountered—a predominantly white, male campus—seemed out of step for the times and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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The Levitt Brand
A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of customers of any If you're... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
markets differed, but the belief in local autonomy and decentralized decision-making became a core value within the company .Meanwhile, the largest American consumer products company remained cautious about... View Details
- 08 May 2019
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Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
magazine. Among many honors, he was elected president of the American Finance Association in 1993 and the Western Economic Association International in 1994 and admitted to the American Academy of Arts and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
old—a blip for an entity that dates, some believe, to the third millennium BCE. Yoga was widely introduced in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, as Indian practitioners emigrated to the country, and Americans traveled to the source... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber