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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
through, we probably never would have done it!” When the magazine was sold three years later (the pair oversaw its publication while attending HBS), the subscription base numbered some 75,000 readers nationwide. Ferguson then moved on to...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
through these questions, you’ll know that you’ve approached the problem in the right way—not just as a good manager but as a thoughtful human being. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51554 September 2016...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
not yet attained, product upgrades (not just mere replacements). Carelessness toward currently owned products and product neglect stem from a desire to justify the attainment of upgrades without appearing wasteful. A series of studies with actual owners of a wide range...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
prose. For HBS professors, of course, there’s Working Knowledge, the publication you’re reading right now. But many general-interest publications employ editors who can help guide the process for scholars to...
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- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
promised my sleeping baby that I would always love him and that I would strive to be the best version of myself. He deserved a father like that. Then came the sleepless nights, the public temper tantrums, the constant messes and endless...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism" are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture...
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Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Ken Zeng
weren’t mere classroom exercises, but reflections of real people's lives and struggles. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you’ll be leaving with? I brought with me a conviction that business can uplift the lives of the underprivileged and...
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- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events...
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- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading health authorities have View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
think of the role of advertising as providing primes that are psychological in nature as a means of persuasion, you can take something that exists in society—a consumer preference for fair skin—and leverage it for good or for bad.”...
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- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
good tertiary-care hospitals. Medical tourism usually refers to the idea of middle-class or wealthy individuals going abroad in search of effective, low-cost treatment. But there is another dimension of medical tourism that is not called...
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “All that should be necessary to get a good picture, is to take a good picture, and our...
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- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship” It’s well documented that women are underrepresented in the executive suite. For instance, women have comprised nearly 50 percent of entry-level public accountants for more than...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
but have proliferated in recent years. Goods covered by patent pools totaled at least $100 billion in the United States in 2000, while multiple standard-setting bodies today cover virtually every high-technology product. Moreover, the...
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A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
developed. This paper introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,000 commercial logo-design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation but improves...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the...
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu