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- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
she was president of the Fidelity Personal Investments unit of Fidelity Investments, serving 4 million customers with $500 billion in assets. She answers our questions in this e-mail Q&A. Poping Lin: We are familiar with the benefits...
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by Poping Lin
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the publishing industry segment and paperboard to the packaging...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble shifted its business strategy towards an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce commodities but built commodity sourcing capacity by...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Chris Wilson-Byrne
Although Chris Wilson-Byrne studied chemistry as an undergraduate, he found his first research experiences disappointing. "I realized that I liked working with people, with teams," Chris says. On the advice of friends, he applied for an internship with an...
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Allen Yang
world. Business school seemed like a logical choice." Accepted in his senior year through what is now called the 2+2 Program, Allen garnered a few years of required work experience before matriculating at HBS. He worked in investment...
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- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
more, inflation-adjusted wages stalled for many, even as consumer spending increased. Where did the money for all this spending come from? Companies borrowed, governments borrowed, and families borrowed. Savings rates approached zero. Commercial lenders sold their...
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by Staff
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Last June, Johnson was named by the White House to head SelectUSA, a new US government–wide initiative to encourage, facilitate, and accelerate business investment in America by both domestic and foreign firms. As the organization’s...
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- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
COVID-19 outbreak might change the way companies think about sustainability. Here’s what they said: Michael Toffel: Companies might prepare better for big disruptions I hope that the pandemic will increase companies’ attention to managing disruption risk. View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can confirm that otherworldly aura, with some View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
reported in their recent working paper, "Superstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long-Tail Phenomenon in Video Sales," and have significant implications not only for the types of films studios decide to fund in future, but also View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
billion people, $1 to $3 a day; and 3) Extreme poverty: 1 billion people, less than $1 a day. Next, consider the roles of various groups in the value-creation relationship: consumers, coproducers, and clients. Specific strategies work...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring...
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Jim Warner
digital strategy and marketing. Microsoft acquired the company in 2007. In 2009, Jim set up Third Floor Enterprises, an advisory and investment firm focused on advertising and marketing technology and...
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- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
executives should invest in talent. In allocating resources, should they focus on building talent or acquiring superstar talent? Elberse says strong evidence suggests that it is hard to find long-term success without having a View Details
- May 2009
- Article
Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads
The paper estimates the cost arising from information asymmetry between the lead bank and members of the lending syndicate. In a lending syndicate, the lead bank retains only a fraction of the loan but acts as the intermediary between the borrower and the syndicate...
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Cost;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates;
Capital;
Investment Portfolio;
Credit;
Diversification;
Risk and Uncertainty
Ivashina, Victoria. "Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 2 (May 2009): 300–319.
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Support for the Global Century
Robert F. Greenhill (MBA 1962), the founder and chairman of an investment banking firm with 13 offices across five continents, is acutely aware of the global nature of business in the 21st century. “As is the case in most companies today,...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
having a networking strategy is the game-changer that can allow you to advance more effectively? Smart networking is about building relationships. Networking is more about coffee and less about cocktails. It’s more about being involved in...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling...
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by Martha Lagace