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- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
ever about innovative financial endeavors. So that brings me to the subject of digital money or “cryptocurrency,” a form of encrypted digital... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28
the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
Harvard Business School, the outcome doesn't mean the decision made was a good one. Knowing doesn't lessen the value of discussing the issues. "Executives fired for cause rarely go quietly. They usually sue... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Varnika Menghnani
leadership? While I was aware that leadership is very subjective and many kinds of leaders thrive, I have truly come to appreciate this over time. What has stayed with me is that leadership is a series View Details
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online
weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by July 31 $1,850 Certificate Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization in strategy . Complete the year-long CLIMB program to earn a... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
stay on. If you’re a valued employee, your boss will appreciate being given the chance to see if anything can be done to keep you. At this stage, it’s better to avoid blurting out the details of an exciting... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
solo founder. This is a highly subjective situation dependent on many factors; some of which I’ll discuss below. Do you need a cofounder? I’ve worked both for and with hundreds View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
industry's biggest challenges: targeting customers who are likely to be interested in what is being sold and measuring the effectiveness of an ad campaign. Improved technology promises to solve the age-old problem once stated by retailer... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
to spend money on creating “moments of delight” for customers—and in 2013, staff logged more than 30,000 such moments for the chain’s hotel guests. Apple store employees are trained to handle upset... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators. But instead View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
employees make or how many units they produce. “The objective performance measures don’t take into consideration whether the machine broke down or whether someone is still learning the job,” Gallani explains. To compensate, managers often inject an element View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
negotiating set-up. Negotiators sometimes can discover hidden sources of value and then craft agreements to unlock that value and overcome barriers created by poor deal design.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online
August 7 $1,850 Certificate Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization in leadership and management . Complete the year-long CLIMB program to earn a... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni
fiction and finance. Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching Cancer will impact nearly one in two people in their lifetime. Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) has battled it twice—and has lessons for anyone in the fight. The Values and Virtues View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Flows... Cash Conversion Cycle Time Value of Money Featured Exercises Balance sheet and financial ratios exercises Calculate net present value... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
lived) is named phenomenology. In short, an epistemological mastery of a subject leaves one knowing. An ontological mastery of a subject leaves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne