social trends - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

studies to demonstrate how researchers can easily implement our two-dimensional evaluative framework. Overall, our findings support the trend towards characteristic-based ERPs. We also document a tradeoff between time-series and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

decade. These secular trends have profound implications for our theories of innovation and organizations. Our extant theory and research is increasingly uncoupled from the phenomena. We would be well served to revisit the nature, locus,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

asynchronously. But I think there’s a second element of shoulder-tapping that relates to socialization and informal discussions. The model there has been to informally mix people randomly to create these water-cooler moments. I was on a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

policy, the development of investment theory, and the emergence of new investment structures. The authors map these trends and profile the battle between low-cost index and exchange-traded funds, on the one hand, and the higher-fee hedge... View Details

04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

trends in the market, the case prompts students to examine the future adoption of drug-eluting stents as well as to consider the potential marketing actions to be taken by Medtronic for ENDEAVOR—a newly approved stent that will hit the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to billion-dollar businesses. “We saw an... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

p<0.0001), and MVR+AVR (0.95, p=0.006) but not in CABG (HR=0.80, p=0.15), and a trend towards significance in MVR (HR=0.87, p=0.09). Conclusions: In cardiac surgery, not including CABG, surgeon experience is an important determinant of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

self-examination caused many to ask whether they were making all they could of their lives. Author Po Bronson struck a newly exposed nerve with the book What Should I Do with My Life? His message is about a good life measured by peace and fulfillment rather than scale... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

the full size and development that they need. Dan Morrell: Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Lal Kidwai and her sister lived in a household where business and social issues were important family concerns. When she visited her... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details