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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
role as well. The Campaign for Harvard Business School, which concluded in fiscal 2018, spurred remarkable growth in unrestricted current use giving. After coming in at $40 million in fiscal 2019, income from unrestricted current use giving is View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
double their profits—especially retailers of products with short life cycles, such as clothing, consumer electronics, books, and music. But despite the potentially high payoff—and a commonly accepted belief among retailers that early...
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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation, whereas it is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract The strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable vs. unfavorable)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
students an opportunity to contemplate their career objectives. It provides students with examples of overzealous life planning and the unforeseen interpersonal dilemmas that can derail a career plan. Additional key topics are: The...
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- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
forget that," says Hall, now the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration. "That had such a huge influence on me." It's an example of what Hall calls "value-creating" behavior—doing a favor for the good of the organization without...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
salary and more concerned about their work contract: "What are you expecting from me?" We had a wonderful session on working in the professional services arena. Because so many of our graduates are from professional services...
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by Mallory Stark
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
major life transitions—a new job, a sick parent, a partner’s layoff, or a return to work after a maternity leave, Whillans says. “Most employees will go about their day-to-day lives and be fine most of the time,” Whillans says. “But when...
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- 06 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS
continue to have music as a “hobby”. One of the first things we did on our first week at HBS was to reflect on our expectations on the whole MBA experience and make promises to ourselves that would ensure we stay true to what we want to...
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Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life By Rory Sutherland “This book points out that data is driving too much decision-making and that executives have lost the art of management. Sutherland’s main argument—that for a...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
negotiation has become a key part of daily management. "Instead of being an important skill for special occasions - making deals and managing disputes - negotiation is increasingly a way of life for managers," notes James K. Sebenius, the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
they exercise, and then monitor it for visual cues indicating when, what, and how much to drink. Hydration can dramatically affect athletes, says Nix founder and CEO Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), a former college basketball player and frequent marathoner. Unger, a...
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Dan Morrell
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
financially constrained. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2338575 Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: False Expectations of Leniency in the Punishment of Transgressions By: Gino, Francesca,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
expected productivity increases so critical to wage and economic growth haven't occurred, at least not in the US. We've waited for at least a decade for this new era of information innovation to yield dividends. Why haven't they? Which of...
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- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
confined to entrepreneurs (like those above) with little exposure to traditional management concepts? Even so, can we expect a slow but steady change in the list of most-admired organizations in the next few years as Gen X'ers and Y'ers...
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by Jim Heskett
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
expect to see fewer all-inclusive prices as a result. But the increasing practice of partitioning prices is noticeable even when the different elements of the offer are already gelled. That's what intrigued us most. Your cable monthly...
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- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
they’ve increased – by 83% since 2000. The company has also focused on reducing carbon emissions of its pumps by initiating a take-back program to disassemble pumps at their end of life in order to recycle the scrap materials. For this...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
globalized, it’s been Americanized.” If you wanted to build a global brand or service, you had to dominate the U.S. market, he explained. That is rapidly changing with the rise of multinationals in China, India, and even Korea. Accordingly, he View Details