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11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Wells & Richardson Co. advertisement, Chicago Dairy Produce 23, no.2, May 1916 Thus, winter butter is whiter than summer butter. It’s also arguably less tasty. “Because the flavor of butter was richer in the summer, there was the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

tend to have fewer connecting passengers and often fly into airports that are less capacity constrained. Legacy carriers fell somewhere in-between. Worst airports for connections. Passengers scheduled to transfer in Newark, Chicago... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

published by the Academy of Management (August, 2005) as part of its Best Paper Proceedings. Her research on how young firms grow is based on data looking at new advertising agencies in New York and Chicago from 1977 to 1985. In this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

Throughout late 2002 and early 2003, Koehn and her team continued working on the project. However, after many months of research and a visit to Chicago to watch Winfrey tape a show, they still had not gained access to company executives.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

management, and telemedicine. This note also contains a glossary of key terms and acronyms in this space as well as exhibits detailing unit economics, market dynamics, and key players. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/814033-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

took a new gig as president of baseball operations at the Chicago Cubs. Still, Groysberg says, the fans can learn some general business lessons from the Red Sox—and from all the investment banks that waste money trying to win stars.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and Lubos Pastor of the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

November 2024
Case

Demond Martin and WellWithAll

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details

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15 Feb 2011
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PublicationsThe Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds. Publication:Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract Publisher's Book... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

task, but one necessary for achieving high performance. The design and implementation tasks are complicated by the fact that schools across large districts have wide variation not only in performance, but also in their capacity to improve. For instance, View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

July 2020
Technical Note

Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal

This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details

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20 Jan 2010
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display. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-053.pdf PublicationsInternational Differences in Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, eds. Publication:Chicago: University of Chicago Press for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2009
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declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Marisa Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three prospective tenants to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2013
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Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

approaches to decision making and management. Finally, we argue that the rise of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago from the 1960s onwards (and its closely related cousin at the University of Rochester) marks the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

brand into more adjacencies? Or should it consider something more radical, like app-related sales through subscriptions and wearable technologies? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618020 Harvard Business School Case 618-028 View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

of a Leadership Team BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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