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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

Enforcers of regulatory laws are making some headway, particularly since the passage last summer of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but their work as a whole needs more teeth, according to panelists at the session on regulation and enforcement.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

By: Iavor I Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
In switchback experiments, a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to a random treatment, measures its response, and repeats the procedure for several periods to determine which treatment leads to the best outcome. Although practitioners have widely adopted... View Details
Keywords: Switchback Experiments; Design; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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  • January 2019
  • Case

Understanding the Brand Equity of Nestlé Crunch Bar: A Market Research Case

By: Jill Avery and Gerald Zaltman
In early 2018, Nestlé announced the sale of its U.S. candy-making division and a select collection of 20 of its confectionery brands, including the Nestlé Crunch Bar, to Ferrero SpA for $2.8 billion. Under the terms of the Nestlé acquisition, each of the purchased... View Details
Keywords: Brand Equity; Marketing; Market Research; Qualitative Research; Marketing Communication; Customer Satisfaction; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; North America; Italy
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  • August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

PureTech Ventures in 2011

By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston
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  • Web

The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links The Railroads: The First Big Business Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, local railroads around the world served as a means of... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes

By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
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  • September 2018 (Revised May 2021)
  • Teaching Plan

Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs

By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
Keywords: Banks; Fintech; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Strategy; Technological Change; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurial Management; Intrapreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 02 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

his co-researchers believe that it may have lessened the effects that their research revealed, as people tend to be more assertive or unyielding when real money is on the line. While gender was a key... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

First Came Love, then Came Business School

the aerospace industry.  Jocelyne knew for a number of years that she wanted to go to business school – and HBS was the dream. Cory was planning to do his MBA as well, but had no concrete plans until Jocelyne decided to start applying in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

Great Depression. Roy had to drop out of school when he ran out of money during his junior year, but Tibby graduated with a degree in speech and English. They were married in 1938, and Tibby went to work for her father at the First... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

House (with hashbrowns covered and capped obviously), and the merits of the word "y'all" as the most efficient method of addressing a group of people. I've said "this case reminds me of my time in the paper... View Details
  • Web

Chase Hall | About

Chase Hall Salmon P. Chase Chase Hall is one of seven buildings named for notable secretaries of the United States Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker. Chase Hall is named for Salmon P. Chase. Built in 1926 as part of the... View Details
  • Web

After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

“Acting as a middleman between two worlds, [the comprador] played a strategically important role in modern China’s economic growth, social change, and general acculturation,” historian Yen- P’ing Hao writes. 24 Over View Details
  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

about (again, see above). As part of my recruiting, I was able to meet on campus with Conor Walsh, Duolingo PM and MBA 2018. Conor gave me context on what it was like to work at Duolingo as well View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • Web

Board Use - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Board Use Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing Participation Engagement... View Details
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

and housing allowances will be added to the base salary to determine the applicant’s total guaranteed compensation. You were not sponsored for, nor did you receive reimbursement for, your MBA tuition or MBA-related expenses, be that during your View Details
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

their Inclusion course this year. “The School is looking for answers to the question of how we can best incorporate this important set of topics around inclusion even more deeply into the MBA curriculum,” said Beshears. “The SIP is going to be used View Details