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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
been in decline in the U.S. and Western Europe. The 19th century business model whereby news and editorial content was packaged and delivered to homes daily and paid for by national advertisers has been overturned by the Internet and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
use, and most of the company’s revenue came from charging advertisers to host ads on its native advertising platform. Wallace believed that the family benefits market was a promising growth area, but he was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
advertising of marijuana, retail storefronts in Denver, Vail, and other ski towns have become the marketing battleground—featuring attractive sales staff in quality retail spaces in prime locations for foot traffic, all of which drives up... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
its own inventory. Today, Amazon is a classic example of “platformization”: The company grew from an online bookstore into a vast technological hub that provides logistics and advertising to third-party retailers and public cloud services... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
and skills, showcase your roles that combine the engineering and business skill sets. These unique roles are highly sought after, but can be few and far between, and not well advertised. “The best way to advertise your role is to post on... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
short scene where a real Terra Chips truck can be seen picking up potatoes—Simon says the team devised several other ways to promote its chips along with marketing the film. The premieres of the film at each of the independent film festivals were View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
a boy," he recounts. "At home, we ate rice and could only afford roti, a type of bread, on holidays. I thought my uncle must be rich, because his family ate roti every night. "I saw billboards for the first time and bragged to my friends back in Balidhip that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy in the long run. When you look... View Details
- Career Coach
Nicola Pugliese
Nicola Pugliese (Wharton ’93) leverages her experience in global marketing and brand management to support students and alumni pursuing careers in marketing, product management, business development, general management and sales across a spectrum of industries. Her... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
to strengthen the company's advantage in the mobile advertising industry. AdMob displayed advertising on global devices, powered 6,000 websites and 1,000 applications, and served over 6 billion View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
$16 billion, and nearly 20,000 jobs could be attributed to campaign staffing, consulting, and lobbying. The political media also benefitted, with most major news outlets posting record advertising revenues last year as a result of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
unexpectedly offered Williams an ad agency internship at the conclusion of his first year. Building on that 2004 summer experience, he’s headed for an advertising job in New York City upon graduation. Finally, his dueling... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Publication:Journal of Advertising Research (forthcoming) Abstract What is the payoff to enlisting celebrity endorsers? Although effects on stock returns are relatively well documented, little is known about any impact on sales—arguably a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
he says. Yamina Vicente, cofounder of Decorazón, an events and destination-wedding company, says that most successful businesses in Cuba employ at least one person with a US visa who can import necessary goods from the States in their luggage. Vicente says View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
cheese, at least for now. It’s equally important for firms to understand their most loyal and profitable customers—who they are, what they buy, and how to engage them. Beyond their purchasing power, loyal customers can become a company’s best advocates, providing... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
variation of online shopping. Rather than just study the problem, they also came up with a possible solution: Virtual Dates. The researchers began their work by talking to online-dating-site users about their experiences, supplementing these conversations with surveys... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
part of it, but at the core, these ads are a very strategic exercise. They reveal what’s happening competitively in an industry.” So how did the ads fare, according to the Kellogg students? Of the 39 non-network advertisers reviewed, top... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
indeed created a market for babies. Parents can choose the traits they want, clinics advertise for customers, and specialized providers are getting rich — it’s a $3 billion business in the United States alone. And that figure doesn’t... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
times lower. The nurse manager, described by nurses as “an authority, not a coworker,“ expressed the belief that mistakes should be learning experiences, but also noted that “people are nervous about being called into the principal's office“ to talk about them. “People... View Details
- May 2004 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Clarence Saunders: The Comeback King
By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Follows the rise and fall of the founder of the modern supermarket, Clarence Saunders. Prior to 1915, all staple shopping took place in the market or general store, where a clerk behind a counter pulled items from shelves for customers , measured them from a barrel, or... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Mission and Purpose; Business Processes; Leadership; Consumer Behavior; Leadership Style; Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Order Taking and Fulfillment
Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Clarence Saunders: The Comeback King." Harvard Business School Case 404-070, May 2004. (Revised July 2004.)