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Making Sense of Capitalism
organized—“Capitalism and the Senses”— was an invaluable experience for me to develop scholarly networks and to revisit my own research, which examines the sensory experience of food marketing in the early twentieth century. I also... View Details
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying, and build technological and market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business leaders need political skills, too. Silverthorne: In Next: The View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111016-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111029-PDF-ENG Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A) Clayton S. Rose and David... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
series of articles and HBS Working Papers, he explores the process of how firms in business-to-business markets manage customer relationships. As a frame of reference, Narayandas explains that modern View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Warnock, cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Adobe Systems, and Alan Taffel, vice president for marketing and sales at UUNET Technologies, discussed some of the most sweeping implications of today's information technology at a plenary session... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
of glamour in the 1950s and 1960s. I, too, liked the thought of developing ideas that would motivate consumers. As an undergrad at the University of Texas, I was a strong writer and was always looking for opportunities to be creative. I thought my View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
looking for opportunities to be creative. I thought my future career would be in advertising, likely as a copywriter. Two undergraduate internships at large retail advertisers gave me enough exposure and experience to discover that, in... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
the CEO and founder of BandPage, an online service that allows musicians to post information and connect with fans. Their conversation touched on power dynamics, as-yet-untapped areas for future digitization, and a question from the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
the additional risk and legwork involved in making an independent film can pay off in creative control over the final product—even after a studio accepts a film for marketing and distribution, executives can’t demand that the ending a... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015
demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk—a forecast of limited future funding—by modifying their focus to finance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
new market segment, characterized by rapidly expanding open communities and new pricing models. What is the right business model for the new brand, and how will it affect the future of Dassault Systèmes?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
"hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of diffusion. Our work underscores that financial markets may play a much larger and under-studied role in creating and magnifying bubbles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
seldom map to realistic approximations of true underlying risks and that coarse rules-of-thumb are used in pretty ad hoc ways. Given the importance of large emerging markets to the future growth of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
The credit crunch and subsequent collapse of the nonprime mortgage market claimed many victims, including hundreds of thousands of low- and moderate-income Americans who lost their homes and savings. Today, regulators and policymakers are... View Details