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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
Success of Entertainment Products." Sarah Jane Gilbert: Tell us about "star power" and how it contributes to a film's success. Anita Elberse: The concept "star power" captures the extent to which an artist's...
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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets
Management Journal Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles By: Prithwiraj Choudhury , Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson and Tarun Khanna MAR 2019 Article Enterprise & Society Oral...
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- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
layout that would optimize product flow and plant capacity — critical to reducing process time — and made extensive use of simulations to generate insights. They created Cardboard City, a three dimensional...
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by David A. Garvin
- Fast Answer
Options: Basics for finding price data
strike price of a put option, the option is said to be out of (in) the money. An “American” option can be exercised at any time up to the expiration date; a “European” option can be exercised only at the expiration...
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- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
rituals mediated the link between use of rituals and reduced grief after losses, and the benefits of rituals accrued not only to individuals who professed a belief in rituals' effectiveness but also those who did not. Although the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
using drugs, prospective employers found drug users hireable 62 percent of the time, versus only 45 percent of the time for those who chose not to answer that question. Of course, such honesty has its...
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by Michael Blanding
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U.S. Ethnic Minorities - MBA
close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and extending beyond graduation. Current membership includes over 130 first years, second years, and partners who...
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
and philanthropic revenues (including current use gifts and distribution from the endowment). In fiscal 2021, the School's total revenues decreased by $56 million, or 7 percent, to $805 million from $861 million in the prior year. The...
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- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
retailers are making when it comes to customer loyalty schemes. “Loyalty schemes are not being used to their best advantage” "Most retailers are at a very basic level in how they use loyalty programs,...
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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
As CEO of Caribu, Tuchman set about to expand its online library of books and games and became one of the few Latina founders with a technology-based growth company. Miami native Felecia Hatcher held corporate jobs in technology until the...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Profile
Brandon Tieu
HubSpot's impending decision of whether to focus on selling to larger enterprise customers or small-medium businesses. The former CEO came to class and explained their rationale to focus on larger customers. However, what struck me most...
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- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
improved their mental health. (The results were especially stark among women who previously had been relying on men to use condoms.) “Indeed what we see is that women who were given access to contraception were significantly improved on...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
Courtesy Howard Cox Courtesy Howard Cox This past fall, 49 employees of the US Department of State logged in to a virtual HBS classroom from all over the world—Honduras, China, Namibia, and Kazakhstan, to name a few—to kick off a...
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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First...
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- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' decision when View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
entrepreneurs, successful CEOs of other food service companies. If you look around the restaurant industry, you will find it populated with Dunkin’ executives who left us better than they found us, and went...
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brands;
leadership;
management;
strategy;
operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
unhappy with customer service, or your prices went up, or a competitor offered a better deal. But if a company lets too many customers show themselves the door, then they’ll waste too much of their time recruiting new customers. “If 30...
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- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
time and money around that goal. There are so many opportunities at HBS; you can literally have 3 opportunities for every slot on your calendar, so I imposed a yes/no framework that helped me prioritize: Is this something that would help...
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- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
Zoom time with senior managers were 4.7 to 7.3 percent more likely to be offered a job than the other two groups who didn’t have regular online contact with supervisors. (What’s more, interns had a 9 to 13 percent better chance of...
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by Lane Lambert