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- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
Harvard Business School. “My sense from teaching many years is that this was a very interesting issue for executives because companies often don’t get it right.” A watch connoisseur himself, Thomke had been aware of the company for many...
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William R. Kerr
William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age View Details
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Re: Michael E. Porter
Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead
Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details
- 2020
- Book
Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead
Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass...
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Capitalism;
Business And Society;
Economic Systems;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
Leading Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Community Relations;
Corporate Strategy
Bower, Joseph L., Dutch Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead. Updated and expanded ed. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age View Details
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Re: Michael E. Porter
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
Days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, a shaken Ed Stack, then the CEO and largest shareholder of Dick’s Sporting Goods, decided it was time for his 850-store chain to pull...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
scale, so you go to mass marketing.” As a company grows, it must consider the purpose of advertising in order to achieve the best effects in gaining new customers. “Some tools are better for the beginning,...
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- Web
Faculty & Advisors - MBA
models that have grown into successful firms. Prior to founding Shumway Capital, Chris joined Tiger Management while finishing business school and was named a Senior Managing Director and Management Committee member at age 30. He received...
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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
http://hbr.org/search/714421-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-021 Catalina in the Digital Age No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-034 A Note on Knowledge...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Curriculum - Case Method Project
opposition in 1918. Coverage: 1890 – 1918; Progressive Era political reforms; direct democracy; initiative, referendum, and recall; the “Oregon System”; political corruption; “the Octopus”; Henry Cabot Lodge Regulating Radio in the Age...
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- Portrait Project
Alan Xie
I revised my first resume at age nine. Red ballpoint pen in hand, I was my parents’ editor of last resort — delighted to mark up misplaced modifiers, oblivious to the quiet tragedy View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
for policy choices.” Kerr, the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, has researched the economic effects of global View Details
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
Age Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) on the promise of the new longevity economy Wired to be Inspired Professor Ranjay Gulati on the messy but transformational pursuit of...
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- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
African-Americans relocate from rural South to northern cities Influence: Medium-High 201920s19 Population of urban centers overtakes that of rural communities Tight immigration restrictions Increase in...
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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
categories) becomes unproductive due to customers migrating to e-tailers. As entire sections of these stores die from online competition, category killers are being pressed to come up with solutions to keep...
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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
suppliers to curate subscription boxes of artisanal food sold online. Why employees don’t want to return Barriers to rebuilding restaurant staffing begin with ensuring the safety of restaurant workers,...
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- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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