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- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
Every four years, a new American presidential campaign gives a fresh boost to social media. This year the winner is Twitter. Donald Trump has racked up 11.3 million Twitter followers (and counting) compared with 8.5 million for Hillary... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
Jay C. Hormel
Hormel, known as the “Spam Man” for his most popular product, pioneered the canned meat business. As a result of his successful marketing campaigns and promotions, 70% of urban Americans used canned meats in 1940, compared with only 18%... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Gaining Currency
percent of Markel’s revenue, compared with 5 percent five years ago. “We can’t let ourselves get too excited,” Reynolds cautioned. “Our gains in Europe are not large enough to make up for our losses in Asia.” View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent scholarship View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
out from under any owners planning to use this rule as a tool. It was a unique situation for [research] because it was unpredicted and legally important for a subset of firms with large activist owners who might take advantage of a proxy access rule." The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Portrait Project
Tina Chen
wondered how she could be so sure. What if I wasn’t true gold? What if I was never meant to shine? Yet my trials and tribulations were trivial compared to those of my parents. Giving up their careers as a renowned physician and engineer,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Frank J. Fahey
Fahey created a sales organization to distribute Gillette products throughout the world. By 1917, Fahey was producing 1 million razors per year compared to just 91,000 in 1904, and had established factories in England, France, Germany and... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Leo Chang
baton. I am not entitled to be here. I am here because of all the hands that held my baton before me. There are very few challenges I will face that compare with what my baton has seen. My baton helps me get up again after each blow or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49520 2015 Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?
tanking the market? Sultenic: The industry is capitalized and managed more transparently and thoughtfully than it has been historically, with less easy money floating around. Banks got smarter, equity sources got smarter and developers got smarter and more... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Distributing dreams with a curatorial eye
are works of art," says d'Arbeloff, who compares his role to that of a curator. "Our job is to communicate a film's magic to filmgoers, ideally to convince them to see it in a theater. And I get to decide what's worth putting out into the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
management.” How does combining the intellectual strength of HBS and SEAS make this program unique? “While small compared to engineering schools at other leading universities, SEAS benefits from being situated within one of the world’s... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Farrah Jamal
about it—it looked like a fully developed metropolis comparable to other large European cities. Stimulated by the challenge, Professor Misiek, the project team’s advisor, took the group to a village ninety minutes outside of Warsaw.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
Spar wants to find out why Botswana is emerging as a "land of potential" on a continent largely left behind in the economic boom of the 1990s.Churchwell: How much is Botswana growing, and how does it compare to other... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Financials | Annual Report 2024
revenue drivers were Executive Education tuition, the endowment distribution, and interest income. The major areas of expense growth were salaries and benefits along with other expenses. New gifts and pledges totaled $145 million, View Details
- Portrait Project
Molly Jacobson
wait to begin a career with clean clothes, central heating, and easy bathroom access. Compared to many other farm workers, I was blessed to expect this. I think often of this memory as I pursue success in business. In the corporate world,... View Details