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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
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
here at HBS in Clay's course, which is called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise or BSSE for short. The “Jobs” approach seeks to understand the causal drivers behind why consumers choose to purchase or hire, in our language,...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
discover that there was not a single brand of "gourmet" ketchup on the market. If J.B. Lyon had known about J.M. Smucker, he may have simply shrugged his shoulders and walked away. But the enterprising 26-year-old knew nothing of the jam...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
and he saw soliciting other firms’ clients as unprofessional. Sidney Weinberg would see no merit in making any change . For Whitehead, there were two important dimensions to the problem with Wall Street’s traditional practice of just one investment banker doing it all...
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Garry Emmons
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
other paths to it. There are, in fact, this is the least likely path to it. People come in through sales and marketing or through finance or through other industries all together. Sales, marketing, finance of a media company, or outside...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
disproportionate benefit from migrant talent. And it must take care to retain that edge. Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast. I’m your host, Harvard Business School Professor and visiting fellow at the American Enterprise...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Linda Katz (both MBA 1994) considered thirty different companies before buying Molded Dimensions, Inc., a manufacturer of rubber and polyurethane products located outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since purchasing the company in April 2001, the Katzes have concentrated on...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
million per year in sales and employs more than 300 people. Holding 90 percent ownership of the company, he views it as "a family of entrepreneurs" but in recent years has also started a venture capital company that finances outside...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
negotiations in the 1980s that led to a significant and growing partnership between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Wal-Mart. From the perspective of Lou Pritchett, P&G's Vice President of Sales and Customer Development, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
through a third previously unexamined effect: dynamic consumer segmentation. Our results, therefore, contradict prior static models: bundling can be profitable even when consumer valuations for components are highly correlated. In the absence of bundling, both hardware...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
etc.) to implement the new strategy. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109015 BMW's Project Switch (B): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
addition to its traditional investment management business. The private equity industry is rapidly institutionalizing, with firms raising funds over $10 billion and some considering public offerings. A sale of WL Ross & Co. could help...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Warnock, cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Adobe Systems, and Alan Taffel, vice president for marketing and sales at UUNET Technologies, discussed some of the most sweeping implications of today's information technology at a plenary session...
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Daniel Penrice
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
database division. I learned a lot about building enterprise software. But then I decided to go back to Romania and start a company. It was very foolish, in retrospect—that was in 2005—not knowing anything about how to build a start-up....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Harvard Business School. I’m your host, Harvard Business School professor and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Joe Fuller. My guest today is HR expert, Josh Bersin. After starting out in high tech, Josh shifted to HR...
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