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- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
like Reddit, analysts took note, with some investors pocketing millions—and others losing their shirts. “A meme stock is a stock whose price has ripped far away from any sense of the firm’s underlying fundamental value,” explains Lauren...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease congestion at major hubs by encouraging...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
a dictionary that lists all the words in the English language but doesn't include their meanings." How those words are defined remains to be seen, but most analysts agree that if the 1990s belonged to the Internet, the new decade marks...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
growing: There are now nearly 1,000 space companies worldwide according to industry analyst NewSpace Global, and they are touting revolutionary (and mostly unproven) new concepts in rockets, space tourism, and even space services, ranging...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
over consensus forecasts would be large in the next fiscal year. Our results show that historical inventory and gross margin contain information useful to forecast sales, and that equity analysts do not fully utilize this information in...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
smart about finding what we call “new career pathways,” where if you start life as a financial analyst and you get sick of it, you don’t have to stay in the CFO’s department for the rest of your life, you can become a cybersecurity...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
graduates to this field.” “It sounds very cliché to say there will be more change over the next 5 years than there has been over the last 25, but this is one of those rare cases where that may well be true,” says cable and satellite View Details
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock price so executives can...
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by Carla Tishler
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
creativity. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for research in workplace diversity and creativity. The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing Can Support Economic Development—and Add to Your Bottom Line...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
’91), an expert in project finance, studies how firms structure, value, and finance very large capital investments such as oil fields, mines, and power plants. His research covers both developed and developing countries, including...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Nundy, who has a background in nonprofit service and worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS. "The fellowship gave me the confidence to try something completely different." "The summer internship program is a great way...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
from the London School of Economics but decided to forsake the predictable routine of law and work as an investment analyst in London and on Wall Street. At HBS, Varma pursued his dream of becoming the business manager of a Formula One...
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
master’s in international relations. I was hired to be an analyst in corporate debt and derivatives, and I remember looking around at the graduate class that I joined with, and pretty much everyone was male, pretty much everyone was...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
in music and entertainment. A graduate of Georgetown University, Fordham Law School, and HBS (where he earned his MBA with distinction and won a fellowship from the George F. Baker Foundation), Feeley worked for four years with MitchellHutchins, Inc., as a security...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their...
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