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- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
permanently as of July 10. And almost half of owners surveyed in late June by the online business network Alignable said they lacked enough cash to get through one month and were taking in less than 50 percent of their pre-pandemic sales.... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
start-up firm in Silicon Valley when one of his employees decided to quit and go work for a direct competitor down the street. "I told him, 'Hey, you can't do that. Didn't we make you sign a non-compete?' " Marx recalls. "He kind of... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the opposite of window... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
oDesk, with ethnic Indians in other countries 32% (9 percentage points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects make clear that the Indian diaspora was not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Cash. She elaborated on the community theme, noting, "I've been touched by the dedication with which my former classmates checked on one another's safety and also by the well wishes that have come in from the extended HBS network around... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Algorithms and Networks Run the World, presents a framework for rethinking business and operating models. “AI is not just displacing human workers, it is changing the nature of firms, how they operate, and how they interact with the rest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Leadership Now Project, which was founded 2017 by HBS alumni to fix American democracy. “This is not asking businesses who are apolitical to suddenly become political,” Lewin says. “This is asking businesses that are already very View Details
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
out, even as a part of the solution, I would have more personal fulfillment.” Building a network to build bridges To make her goals a reality, Nneka focused on building relationships and has found the strength of the HBS View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
the age of 5 with my family. Since then, I’ve split my childhood between the US and Taiwan -completing elementary school in Seattle, middle and high school in Taipei, and college in Illinois. Prior to HBS, I spent five years at Microsoft working on wireless View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2003. The experience of starting two inner-city schools fueled Kennealey’s interest in applying to HBS, where he has focused on developing skills in finance, strategy, and operations. “I realized that the fastest, most effective way to... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their paper, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales," caused a ruckus in the music industry not seen since the British invasion of the Beatles. Many recording executives were not singing "Yeah,... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
deep culture of direct sales to corporate customers, the company was slow to take advantage of a rapidly emerging consumer market—at least until founder Michael Dell returned to shake things up. "Our past is littered with firms that... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
groups are context dependent and distorted in the direction of representative types. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51546 forthcoming American Indian Business High Stakes Negotiation: Indian Gaming and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
dealers onto the network used by the GM Corporation. The goal of this restructuring was to "help simplify the mess of incompatible and redundant computer and communications systems at many dealerships, reducing costs overall. `I've... View Details
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
working and living. The HBS Executive Education team went into action, and the team's ability to adapt has been wonderful to watch. We changed direction quickly, executing an all-virtual portfolio of programs. We leveraged new... View Details