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- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
think about binge-watching The Good Place. “You look for prior patterns and use them to discover what the future may hold,” says Teodorescu. As algorithms have become increasingly advanced, they may start knowing us better than we know ourselves. At least, that’s what...
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- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
by advertising revenue. On the other hand, he detected clear bias in the types of companies that the press targets for special scrutiny. For this reason, business people are wise not to underestimate the...
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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
scholars, and others. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308092 Clear Channel 2006 Harvard Business School Case 208-083 The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Media offers advertisers different target audiences across its various sites and publications. In addition, the Atlantic publishes just 10 times a year, versus weekly or daily. Online and print View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Trump, the demographics of opposition to the president put unique pressure on business leaders. He is astoundingly unpopular with the young. In August, among adults under 35, Trump had a disapproval rating of 62 percent with only 22 percent approval. View Details
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by Gautam Mukunda
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
advertising revenues that are affecting the entire publishing industry. As a result, HBR circulation revenue reached a third consecutive all-time high. Higher education group sales also were up, year-over-year, largely because of...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
chapter studies how experimental policy design can be a cost-effective way to attain program goals. The last chapter examines geographic disparities in innovation, joblessness, and technological dynamism and studies how reallocation of grants and geographically View Details
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
elements that executives need to align and strengthen. This article describes how companies have used the matrix to clarify their relationships with daughter brands, retool their identities to support new businesses, revamp their overall image, evaluate View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
consumption moves to the digital medium? Provides a view of the news industry in mid-2006 and discusses the impact of an increasingly fractured media landscape and various media format's ability to capture advertising dollars. Both...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download the paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41297 Vulnerable Banks Authors:Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar Abstract When a bank experiences a negative shock to its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
directed to take steps within six months to reduce the waiting time for outpatient appointments—measured as the time to first available outpatient appointment—to no more than 15 days. For Furlan and his colleagues in neurology, achieving this View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages...
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April White
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-015 BandPage (A) BandPage CEO James "J" Sider is about to receive results from BandPage's targeted View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the food and drinks industry are increasing wages, and in a concession to work-life balance, Walmart and Target even opted to close on Thanksgiving. However, in the race to retain talent, companies are also resorting to less substantive...
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by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
safari theme. We wanted to go to a much more contemporary canvas against which to place the product. Communication was the last piece, which was about advertising and training the sales associates to improve communication with our...
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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Hongyi Li Publication:European Business Review (May-June 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6417 The Flattening Firm—Not As Advertised Author:Julie Wulf...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
where he is going, any road will take him there emphasis in original. If any road is okay, the chief executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not need to View Details