And Within-firm Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

authors are documenting a phenomenon in which the design of new products has created a corresponding number of new firms. Teacher, administrator, researcher, and mother of two - after 25 years, Baldwin is... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

fan support. Nobody puts out a more exciting product or showcases more talented and skilled athletes than the major American professional leagues. But have the beauty, fun, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

has risen significantly. The productivity out of the pipelines has decreased significantly over time and so that begs the question of where do we go next for treating mankind’s diseases. One of those answers... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

Chris Yeh figures that in a more traditional era, he might have become a product design engineer or perhaps even a writer. But by the time he finished college, he says, "the Internet was just too hot" compared to anything the offline... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2004
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Starting Off on the Right Foot

When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected

help. “A family’s first priority is to stay safe, and their second priority is to stay sane,” she explains. “It's the best feeling in the world—seeing how our product is meeting a critical need, making kids'... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

emotions and self-narratives can drive a firm’s trajectory and, ultimately, its value. The cast of characters includes Petja Stoyanovic (Stoy Food’s 83-year-old founder and CEO) View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

Demo Day in July. “Every session was truly productive and inspiring, as the HBS mentors brought a new perspective and incredible expertise to this fourth cohort of TBFI,” says... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

kitchen to a larger production facility in Vermont. Over the next few years, he and his family orchestrated the creation of an entire line of nationally distributed condiments View Details

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

assignment. It's a takeoff on the attempt after the Civil War. Freed slaves were promised 40 acres and a mule. They, as a rule, didn't receive that promise, but we can and we should embrace this concept... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

purchase on approval. This strategy, she explains, helped create elite patronage for the young Wedgwood brand. It was also one of the earliest recorded examples of "inertia selling" - a practice commonly used by book and music clubs... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS

maintains minimal inventory, delivering finished units in a matter of days. Dell's direct-access model makes extensive use of computer linkups and information shared among customers, suppliers, and the... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner

01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

want to be remembered just as the guy who got the Coop out of suits,” he notes with a grin. After restoring the store's fiscal health, he now looks forward to strengthening services to the Coop's 65,000 paid members and more than 400,000... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

capitalist system works the way it does is because there are cycles, and the cycles self-correct. With too much excess, eventually you get a downturn. So the explosion in securitized assets was a ticking time bomb? It’s not amazing that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups

Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS Association of Southern California has launched a series of... View Details