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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
senior vice president at Symantec by day, and by night—well, at least seven or eight nights a year—a no-holds-barred guitarist, vocalist, and emcee for a band that donates its earnings to local schools. The Wildcats first came together 15...
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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
Co-Chairman, Loews Corporation Download Tisch profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Asbury Park, New Jersey 1971 Earns BS, Hotel Administration, Cornell University 1971 Joins Loews as Marketing...
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- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
year, whereas England's was only 66.67 gallons of wine or 90 yards of cloth per worker per year. Given Portugal's absolute advantage in both industries, why would the Portuguese ever choose to buy either wine or cloth from England? Ricardo's View Details
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Re: David A. Moss
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
Wallace Christina Wallace (MBA ’10) applied to business schools knowing that the best financial aid offer would determine where she earned an MBA. Her job as a rehearsal associate at the Metropolitan Opera came with many benefits, but a...
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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
exodus. Generational expectations about what makes a good job are changing, employees are fatigued from the year-long pandemic and there are labor shortages everywhere. Employees have had the time and space to think about what really matters to them and there are...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
paper. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 percent. It's no surprise then that...
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- Profile
Leo Markel
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I came to Harvard Business School to further develop my leadership ability. While confident in my analytical skills, I recognized that I did not have the leadership...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
For the longest time nobody thought malls would be seriously hurt by ecommerce but now we have enough evidence to believe that the tsunami is actually coming. If you are not careful about thinking through the implications, you will be caught by View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
investors alike that, as Gaurav Goel put it, "Sustainable businesses have lesser risks associated with their future earnings ... triple bottom line (economic, social, and environmental sustainability) reduces uncertainty." Or as...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
earnings a minuscule percentage of sales. In this environment of change, Mitsubishi Corporation was ready to select a new leader in 1992. The choice was Makihara, who had just returned from a posting in New York City as head of U.S....
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- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels, restaurants, and attractions....
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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
In Blockbusters, I describe that markets for creative talent are highly concentrated, and that the top actors, musicians, authors, athletes, and other creatives can earn huge amounts of money. Content producers can see great advantages...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
cited skills developed at HBS as critical to their entrepreneurial success. The survey also showed that alumni who were self-employed had often followed a traditional career path in the first decade after earning an MBA and only later had...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
they can do it, rallying others to their cause as they go.” Dina Gerdeman: We talk about corporate social responsibility (CSR) today, yet it’s clear from the book that this emphasis on business solving social problems isn’t new. Do you think readers might be View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
million. Now with a $1.2 billion rights fee for London, most pundits expected it to lose between $100 and $200 million. Instead, NBC not only broke even on the Games, but it also made it the most viewed television event in United States history. "London was truly a big...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
friend persuaded him to apply to HBS, where he arrived in the fall of 1966, newly married and with a razor-thin bank account. “When the oilman came to the door with the bill after filling the tank, we’d hide in the closet,” he recalls. Demonstrating the mental...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey