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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Air Time
Input (photo courtesy of Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo) The feature on work/life integration was the September issue’s most popular article online The feature on work/life integration was the September issue’s most popular article online I was single-handedly raising my 2...
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- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Leigh Rawdon (foreground) with Tea Collection designers in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca. The fanciful wood alebrije carvings inspired several pieces in the company’s fall collection. (Courtesy Leigh Rawdon) It didn’t take long for Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) to realize...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
Input Most common words in responses: Most common words in responses: @HBSAlumni What should alumni look for when joining a startup? “Character of people. Goodness that goes beyond competency.” — @AnthonyTjan Anthony Tjan (MBA 1998) “Must absolutely love these three:...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) grew up on an asparagus farm in Scotts Ferry, New Zealand, a village of 65 people. The only girl in her high-school class, she went on to attend Macalester College in Minnesota, becoming the first college graduate...
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- 02 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
- 2002
- Case
New York Times Digital
By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
In 1995, the New York Times launched New York Times Digital, a new venture dedicated to building a profitable business focused on distributing news context in multimedia format online. In implementing the venture, the company created a unit that was quite distinct...
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Keywords:
Online Technology;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Newspapers;
Business Startups;
Journalism and News Industry;
Publishing Industry
Govindarajan, Vijay, and Chris Trimble. "New York Times Digital." 2002. (Case No. 2-0006.)
- 15 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Slack Time and Innovation
- February 1993
- Background Note
Time Series
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Time Series." Harvard Business School Background Note 893-012, February 1993.
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a mainstay of the U.S. economy and, for better or worse, as an...
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Garry Emmons
- 10 Dec 2013
- Video
Tata Hall Time Lapse
- March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
AOL Time Warner, Inc.
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Internet and the Web;
Value Creation;
Organizational Culture;
Consolidation;
Change Management;
Telecommunications Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Bradley, Stephen P., and Erin Sullivan. "AOL Time Warner, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 702-421, March 2002. (Revised June 2005.)
- November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
AOL Time Warner Foundation
Focuses on B. Keith Fulton, vice president of the AOL Time Warner Foundation, who is analyzing the results of a new partnership between the foundation and the National Council on Aging. Fulton is considering ways to build upon the partnership's initial success.
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Communications Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Publishing Industry
Barrett, Diana, Cassandra Hanley, and Sarah Aaron. "AOL Time Warner Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 303-014, November 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- October 1991 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Buying Time
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Susan Harmeling
A self-contained explanation and simple practice examples to introduce students to the concepts of compound interest, present value loans, bonds, and leases. Necessary present value tables are included. The study questions provide simple exercises to enhance student...
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Bruns, William J., Jr., and Susan Harmeling. "Buying Time." Harvard Business School Case 192-045, October 1991. (Revised September 2004.)
- March 2022
- Article
Estimating the Effectiveness of Permanent Price Reductions for Competing Products Using Multivariate Bayesian Structural Time Series Models
By: Fiammetta Menchetti and Iavor Bojinov
Researchers regularly use synthetic control methods for estimating causal effects when a sub-set of units receive a single persistent treatment, and the rest are unaffected by the change. In many applications, however, units not assigned to treatment are nevertheless...
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Keywords:
Causal Inference;
Partial Interference;
Synthetic Controls;
Bayesian Structural Time Series;
Mathematical Methods
Menchetti, Fiammetta, and Iavor Bojinov. "Estimating the Effectiveness of Permanent Price Reductions for Competing Products Using Multivariate Bayesian Structural Time Series Models." Annals of Applied Statistics 16, no. 1 (March 2022): 414–435.
- 05 Oct 2013
- News
Time is not money
- February 2023
- Article
Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
By: Christine L. Exley, Nils H. Lehr and Stephen J. Terry
Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive U.S. nonprofit data drawn from millions of tax returns, that the public's...
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Exley, Christine L., Nils H. Lehr, and Stephen J. Terry. "Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times." Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 1, no. 1 (February 2023): 42–79.
- 06 Jan 2014
- News
Innovation in turbulent times
- September 1994 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Time Life, Inc. (A)
By: David A. Garvin and Jonathan West
Time Life has historically been a continuity book publisher, selling 20-volume book series via direct mail. Now, however, music and video/TV divisions have been added, and the CEO is trying to craft a strategy that will align the divisions so they can produce...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Divisions;
Horizontal Integration;
Production;
Creativity;
Alignment;
Advertising;
Publishing Industry
Garvin, David A., and Jonathan West. "Time Life, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-012, September 1994. (Revised May 1995.)
- January 2002 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Valuing the AOL Time Warner Merger
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Rena Miller and John N Rei
On January 11, 2000, AOL and Time Warner announced their intention to merge, creating what AOL CEO Stephen Case and Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin called the 21st century's first fully integrated communications, media, and entertainment company. This case, prepared from...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Valuation;
Situation or Environment;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Rena Miller, and John N Rei. "Valuing the AOL Time Warner Merger." Harvard Business School Case 802-098, January 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
- February 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
The New York Times Paywall
On March 28, 2011, The New York Times website became a restricted site where most of the content was protected behind a "paywall." Users who exceeded the limit of 20 free articles per month were required to pay for either a digital or print subscription. The newspaper...
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Kumar, Vineet, Bharat Anand, Sunil Gupta, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "The New York Times Paywall." Harvard Business School Case 512-077, February 2012. (Revised January 2013.)