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- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
World Nutella Day, held on February 5, inspired more than 40,000 Instagram posts as fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread shared recipe videos, memes, and selfies with jars. It was free marketing for Nutella maker Ferrero, which almost... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS in Israel
time in Jerusalem as possible. There is so much history in this small, stunning city. I will have to go back again to see more. Why does HBS travel to Israel? We go to Israel regularly because we love our HBS Israeli students and alumni, and we want to View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
emphasis on indoor air quality and other healthy building measures will diffuse through the rest of the economy. As the country begins to return to work, concerns about the spread of infectious disease will “make it easier than ever to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
that will be taught to HBS MBA's in the fall, said in an recent presentation on campus, "Dr. Shetty and I are working together to try to figure out ways to institutionalize his hospital model and spread it. He would like to create... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
coworkers, Eckert says. Created for small businesses rather than the automotive industry—which makes up 70 percent of the US industrial robot market—Rethink’s bots do the boring, monotonous stuff. Humans get more interesting jobs: the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
politics, social, military and legal history during the colonial and early Federal periods. Monte di Pietà (Rome, Italy), 1574-1643 This collection consists of three account books of the Roman Monte di Pietà, a form of charitable pawnshop that View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
that many people (including people a lot smarter than I am) have about the basic feasibility of sustaining and spreading current American habits of material consumption. I have spent some considerable effort trying to get a handle on the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
"Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you need a production system with more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand." The case also highlights the spread of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
for example, they are less interested in protecting what was previously considered proprietary information. “Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Alibaba now open-source all their algorithms to make the most of their data,” observes Karim... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993) - Recruiting
planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet food company that I discovered an interest in marketing, branding, and product development—a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
As a college student you’re probably thinking about your future, what career path might interest you, whether an MBA might be worthwhile to pursue. For most top MBA programs you’re going to need some work experience before coming to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
“dirt” spread to a depth of three and a half inches. Planted at eight-inch intervals are 9,000 tiny perennials, including eight varieties of drought-tolerant sedum, a low-growing, flowering plant with water-storing leaves. Rather than... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and short-term bonds forecasts positively future excess returns on bonds at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Everyone gets to be an undertaker,” he says, pointing through a windowed hive at a bee dragging away a dead peer. Price has been spreading his love of honeybees for 10 years through his Sweet Virginia Foundation, which is dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
First of all, many more Americans will die of heart attacks than will ever die of Ebola. This is not like smallpox, whose spread can only be controlled with great difficulty. The nature of the disease is that, because it can only pass... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, demonstrates that such a strategy usually beats the more cautious approach of spreading around lower-amount investments in a larger number of projects, a recipe for... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details
- Profile
David Gellis
David Gellis comes from a family of physicians. But during his college career, his interests swung toward journalism and even led to a stint as editor of the Harvard Crimson. Yet the medical call came to him as well. "Journalism gave... View Details