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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: Last year, about half of hospital staffers reported staff shortages and overwork. Can online staffing improve that? Accenture predicts that “crowdsourcing, labor... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
pure-play stores can’t directly match. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration. Rembrand M. Koning: Think like a startup and experiment Given that every week feels like a year in 2020, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
“Baseball appeals to my entrepreneurial spirit because each season is a new season,” says DeWitt Jr. “It’s not like a normal business where you can make certain forecasts and expect to hit plan. Lots of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is responsible for some of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
Alumni-Authored Books Building our collections with the work of HBS graduates All Services for Alumni Overview A curated selection of alumni-authored titles for honored years: 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999. Alumni may check out print materials after applying for, View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
Future of Retailing." Participants reported success in leveraging advanced technology to reach more customers and provide better service. Tuck Rickards (MBA '91), CEO of Virtual Emporium, an online shopping company, View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
Video Embed Ann Chao discusses the inspiration behind her new startup, Sonation. As a student, Ann Chao (MBA 2013) loved playing chamber music with HBS friends. But MBAs live busy lives, and their jam sessions were few View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
business expertise," he notes. "When China opened, we were at the right place and right time to take advantage of that opportunity." Now that Hong Kong is part of China, the relationship between the two is bound to get even closer. Fung... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
higher on average and variable profits increased by 9.6 percent, according to the study. The model also predicted that algorithmic competition resulted in a modest decline of .9 percent in quantity purchased... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
President Obama has said many times he supports the Employee Free Choice Act. It passed the House in March 2007, and I believe a majority of senators in this Congress have indicated their support. But I’m not foolish enough to View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
from wind, and realistic predictions indicate the average will reach 20 percent by 2020. “The progress we’ve seen in Texas itself is a combination of good resources, good infrastructure, View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
anyone access to content; US-based Jupiter, the leading provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience; and Unifa,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This insight is at the heart of Syrg,... View Details
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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Method Expansion of the Case Method: Header Expansion of the Case Method Expansion of the Case Method: Quote [An] advantage of the case system is its flexibility. . . .The Dean’s program has met the acid test of successful adaptability to radical View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
predictable date for its demand. There is certainly a need for more research into vaccine-production technologies and for greater production capacity, and WHO encourages... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
$224 FY 22 174 FY 21 81 FY 20 146 FY 19 222 Total revenues for fiscal 2023 increased 11 percent year over year to more than $1 billion. This growth exceeded our forecast by 2 percent, primarily driven by Executive Education, the endowment... View Details