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the corporation. In the ensuing years, the annual reports and major corporate publications included relatively few images of women in the workforce. Women were increasingly represented, however, in the role of consumer using steel...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
the author’s debt to Belvedere College and the Jesuits as the great influence on his life philosophy and life choices. McEvoy also reflects on how Irish banks morphed from being customer oriented, conservative, dull, and profoundly honest in the 1950s to the very...
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- 10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management...
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- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
2001. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of developing a beauty business. These included the long-established, but relatively small, U.S. fragrance company...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
in the future? By examining hundreds of job profiles developed by executive-search firm Heidrick & Struggles and interviewing numerous senior managers, the authors have identified some clear trends. One strikingly consistent finding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
interview, we catch up with the group for another update. Not surprisingly, much has changed over the past decade in their households and in their careers. In the profiles that follow, our protagonists once again candidly discuss how they...
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- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
case:http://hbr.org/search/513058-PDF-ENG Konys, Inc. Lee, Deishin, and Tunay I. TuncaHarvard Business School Case 613-065 This case describes the sourcing policy for a consumer electronics company. The company must decide how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
to lower end consumer price, through which media to convey Afrezza's benefits, and how to streamline the process of performing the lung test and getting the drug into the hands of patients. But would all these changes and initiatives, no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
health-economics literature has done a better job documenting consumer-choice mistakes in insurance and treatment choices than explaining why those mistakes occur, it is clear that we should not ignore these mistakes in our analyses. We document evidence showing that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy By: Derdenger, Timothy, and Vineet Kumar Abstract—Several key questions in bundling have not been empirically examined: Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure components? Does correlation in...
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Anna Secino
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
southern Africa, among the highest in the world. In addition, though South Africa is often classified as an emerging economy, it might be more correctly seen as having two economies—the normal economy of sophisticated consumers and firms...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
million people on its payrolls, the restaurant industry is the nation's largest private-sector employer, attracting 46 percent of every dollar spent on food. Despite these statistics, the industry (with the exception of a few star chefs or fast-food empires) maintains...
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Hanna, Julia
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Publication:Journal of Consumer Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
wide geographical scope in this comprehensive text. Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too by Carol Novello (MBA 1991), with Ginny Graves Grand Central Publishing Novello profiles the transformational impact that...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
economy has been moving at an incredible pace over the last five years,” says Diamond, who works as VP of business development at start-up ThinkEco. “We thought that if we could get some of our alumni leaders together, we could really move the needle in this space.”...
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- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make...
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