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01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

global brand advertising campaign called This Is Yoga. The spots include zero yoga as a physical practice. Olympic gold medalist volleyballer Kerri Walsh Jennings, Australian pop artist CJ Hendry, Beijing drummer Shi “Atom” Lu, London... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

president of VF Corporation, the country's largest publicly held apparel manufacturer, supervising its Vanity Fair, Vassarette, Barbizon, Jantzen, and Healthtex divisions, among others. Charron's varied career has included stints in View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

since 2014. With additional capital raised through an IPO, Glenn Kelman faced decisions on how to allocate these resources in order to grow. Should Redfin adjust its advertising strategy? Should it reconsider the policy of hiring lead... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

is still making some money," says Teixeira. And with that increased revenue, the company is now able to offer a "price-match guarantee" that allows customers to instantly buy at the same price for which a product is advertised online. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Career Coach

Doug Lester

Doug’s approach to career and executive coaching is informed by over ten years in marketing, digital, and general management roles at Johnson & Johnson and other Fortune 500 companies. He offers perspective as a former executive recruiter and often counsels alumni on... View Details

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5. Profane, pornographic, obscene, indecent or unlawful content; 6. Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation; 7. Content related to partisan political activities; and 8. Content that contains intentionally inaccurate information... View Details

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

aggregates high-quality support resources and uses targeted advertising to connect with those who need help during the pandemic. The platform invites users to search by region or need and select "Get help," "Give help," or "Donate," among... View Details

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

for a company that's hiring like crazy More than a year into the pandemic, as the economy improves and recruiters begin to ramp up hiring again, Ng advises job seekers to zero in on companies that are advertising multiple openings.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

September–October 2022
Article

Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price

By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant

Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers. In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details

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12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-015 BandPage (A) BandPage CEO James "J" Sider is about to receive results from BandPage's targeted advertising campaign on music streaming... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

on 4,000 screens and try to recoup everything as fast as you can with a blitz of advertising over the first weekend.” Clearly, there are easier ways to earn a living than to produce movies — but few other businesses create a product for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

static, envy-free equilibria. Furthermore, convergence is efficient, and the entry of low-quality advertisers does not slow convergence. Because our approach predominantly relies on assumptions common in the sponsored search literature,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

corridors and lobbies). As offices get smaller, a number like 250 square feet per person is becoming more typical. From a salary point of view, in Massachusetts, the gross wages for job titles like advertising sales agent, tax preparer,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

They therefore contemplate a channel incentive program; a special promotion is planned, more trade promotion and advertising are planned, and channel margins are enhanced. This is channel management as most of us know it, but we might as... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

institutions - like the Bulletin itself - are enduring outgrowths of its solid foundation. Women in the Bulletin While the first women in the Bulletin sold cigarettes in colorfully drawn advertisements in the 1930s, an occasional article... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

2024
Book

The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

We demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions.

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details