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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
accuracy of daily sales forecasts. We collaborated with an online apparel retailer to assemble a dataset that combines (1) detailed internal operational information, including data on sales, advertising, and promotions, as well as (2)...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in the sales cycle. Things were going quite well, Riesenfeld...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales,...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
strategy, innovation, entrepreneurial vision, and customer service. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/starbucks-coffee-company-transformation-and-renewal/an/314068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-035 3D Systems In late...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external...
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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
in captivity? Three professors in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it's a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree that...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
emphasis toward xerography characterized the Haloid Company in the 1950s. In 1961, in recognition of the spectacular growth of sales engendered by the first plain-paper copier, the firm was renamed the Xerox Corporation. In response to...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- Web
Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
SerafeimProfessor, Accounting & Management New Faculty Eva AscarzaAssociate Professor, Marketing Alberto CavalloAssociate Professor, Business, Government & the International Economy Amitabh ChandraProfessor, Technology & Operations Management Zoë CullenAssistant...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
for the limitless possibilities associated with California and the West. And in keeping with the entrepreneurial dynamism that is so much a part of today's information technology explosion, "the City by the Bay" has always been a magnet...
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Daniel Penrice