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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
profitability. Using a sample of 42,337 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that corporate profitability mean reverts faster in countries where product and capital markets are more competitive. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance Authors: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap Publication: Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Humans View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Theodore G. Montague
Montague transformed Borden from a struggling dairy products-centered business into a diversified multinational consumer goods provider. Looking for a way to lessen Borden’s reliance on government intervention, Montague pursued selective acquisitions View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
According to venture capitalist Jeffrey Harris (MBA 1981), there are entrepreneurs, and then there are transformative entrepreneurs. The former group includes Richard Branson, who has created many great View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
company’s mission is social responsibility: A portion of the proceeds and products is donated to animal welfare organizations. KitNipBox regularly works with artisan suppliers... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
what products or services to offer by first looking inside. Contrary to most companies that begin by looking at markets and competition, these CEOs looked inside to define "who" the company was—where was the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket View Details
- Web
Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Commercial photographers worked their medium not only to capture the realistic elements of a subject but also to imbue it with idealized qualities. The modernist sensibility manifested itself in the creation of fractured forms and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
increasing the country’s food supply. Sustainable America takes a two-pronged approach to these issues: education and investment. Sustainable America’s education initiatives are typical of the approach taken by many nonprofits, with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
health research grants. We support the AKC Companion Animal Recovery, an organization that focuses on providing lost-dog recovery services by maintaining a database for animals equipped with an ID microchip.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are:... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
— after a twenty-year “trial separation” as they like to say — and gained both a business and a domestic partner. Neptune Farm now maintains three acres of asparagus, two acres of blueberry bushes, 42... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
that casks of whiskey and farm animals were "branded"—or seared—with some kind of mark to identify ownership, she pointed out, the word didn't take on its current commercial connotation until the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- Web
Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
list people with disabilities as populations they serve. Review Capital IQ Pro 's "Assistive Technology" market map, which consists of companies that develop products and technology solutions designed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
night. I have new ideas for products and product features all the time, which I call bold beats. An example of a small bold beat was animals that... View Details
- Profile
Eric Chavez
to a new product engineer. “I loved the responsibility and challenge,” he says, “but it felt repetitive: same problems on different products.” Seeking a new challenge, Eric moved into marketing so that, “I... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Steiner, executive vice-president of commercial acceptance, must decide if the situation in Brazil is stable enough to support a significant increase in breeding and biotech spending to develop products... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace