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- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
needed, and supply them with cheaper minutes that it had bought at a bulk discount. Because the buyers would purchase these minutes on credit, it made sense for their neighbors to sell to them, because they could more easily assess the...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
Financials Supplemental Financial Information II 3ms page 2 of 2 Expenses Executive Education, Publishing, and Online operating costs, as well as the School’s faculty research costs, cut across multiple expense line items in the Statement...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
demand for E Ink technology was growing rapidly, and the company had begun to scale up its production. “We were an R&D company trying to be a manufacturing company,” he remarks. One of the company’s largest accounts reneged on a confirmed View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
So even though most companies spent the last decade reinventing their core business processes — such as how they do purchasing or manage inventory and order processing — they did so with the aim of greater efficiency. Most of them have...
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- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
Is there a method to their madness, investing in what has been widely characterized as a dying business? Of course there are plausible explanations for their purchases that have nothing to do with economics. Their motives might include...
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Upon the deal's completion, the group committed $500 million to make Lopez's quality-over-quantity vision a reality. And in December 2013, the company raised $355 million with an IPO that made headlines by offering members of its AMC Stubs loyalty program the...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
creatine kinase, she found, likely pointed to DMD, the most common form of muscular dystrophy. By morning, she had made her own diagnosis; later that morning, the doctors confirmed it. Tracy didn't tell Benjy about the pediatrician's call and her View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School...
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by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service. The company purchases...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for...
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
solutions for both hybrid and remote teaching, learning, and working throughout the School. In addition, the School’s IT and operations departments completed the design, build-out, and launch of two new HBS Live Online Classrooms on...
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- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
unfolding of consumer driven automotive online retailing at Chrysler and in the 2000s, I followed the allure of the wild, wild, web at Google. Today, I sit at the precipice of AI (artificial intelligence) with my role at Gradient...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
club to better understand the nuances of virtual event production, which will help as it begins implementing more online programs. Another Cleveland Clinic webinar with the latest updates took place in June, and the club just launched a...
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Margie Kelley
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
education at that point. There were certainly more lucrative offers to consider, a return to McKinsey among them, but Singer opted instead for a part-time position with a kids’ online storytelling startup that gave him the mobility and...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
example, buying a ping-pong table, TV, or online movie subscription for the family to enjoy together might make you happier than purchasing a phone to use by yourself, he says. Also, the research shows...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
First, she looks for existing trends and a big market. If the world’s 2.7 billion people with smartphones that they can’t put down are any indication, “that’s an absolute walk with Quibi,” she says. Second, is the customer behavior already there? View Details