Filter Results:
(436)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(923)
- News (319)
- Research (436)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (248)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(923)
- News (319)
- Research (436)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (248)
Page 1 of 436
Results →
Sort by
- 10 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained
- 23 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement
- 07 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda
Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Peter Tufano
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinventing Savings Bonds
- 14 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage
- 27 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
A Brief Postwar History of US Consumer Finance
- August 1974 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
Peter Olafson (A)
By: John J. Gabarro
Describes the problems facing a recent MBA graduate in his job as general manager of a cable television company owned by a parent corporation. Raises issues of corporate divisional relationships and the difficulties facing an inexperienced manager who seems to be... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Television Entertainment; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges
Gabarro, John J. "Peter Olafson (A)." Harvard Business School Case 475-025, August 1974. (Revised April 1983.)
- 2011
- Chapter
On The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
By: Faaiza Rashid
Rashid, Faaiza. "On The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann." In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Organization Theory: From Taylor to Today, edited by Erhard Friedberg. Paris: R&O Multimedia, 2011. Multimedia.
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
the United States. Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that facilitate entrepreneurship and growth are often weak, archaic, or entirely missing." By providing substitutes for these... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- September 1986
- Supplement
Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video
Contains a presentation by Browning to a class of MBA students in March 1986, in which he describes how he handled the first year of his efforts to revitalize the Whitecap Division of Continental Can (1984-85). View Details
Keywords: Restructuring
Jick, Todd D., and Mary C. Gentile. "Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-502, September 1986.
- May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure
By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
Segel, Arthur I., Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu, and Elizabeth C. Williamson. "Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure." Harvard Business School Case 211-106, May 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
- September 2007 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Peter Welz: When a Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel
Describes the hardball tactics facing Peter Welz, who seeks to negotiate a make-or-break contract with a vastly larger potential client. Welz's counterpart team is led by Preston Spitzer, a notoriously tough player who fully understands his side's massive advantages in... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Competitive Advantage
Sebenius, James K., and Ellen Knebel. "Peter Welz: When a Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-010, September 2007. (Revised April 2013.)
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- Book Review
Review of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia by Lawrence Peter King
By: Doug Guthrie
Guthrie, Doug. "Review of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia by Lawrence Peter King." Administrative Science Quarterly 46, no. 2 (June 2001).
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
counting on to drive sales over the next few years might not be forthcoming. Corporate downsizing is hardly anything new. Indeed, in recent years it has often been management's tool of choice for improving competitiveness. Ironically, new research View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains require is provided View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
management process. One study, completed in collaboration with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan, addresses the strategy design and implementation phase of the process by exploring how buyer-seller relationships function in a... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Seated before a computer with an Internet link, consumers today can flip through an estimated 800 million Web pages of public information by merely clicking a mouse. Add to this that television, now in 98 percent of American homes, is... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs