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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

are testing initial concepts through basic pilot operations. Eligibility will be reviewed by the Review Committee based on the parameters outlined below and its decisions are final. Revenues or donations... View Details

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

What do you think? Original Article Who doesn't remember the basic lesson from Marketing 101, the four Ps—which I don't even need to enumerate? They were based on concepts of a marketing mix developed in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

sophisticated follow-on to basic negotiation courses and/or as a self-contained negotiation course taught at an advanced level with a heavy emphasis on handling challenging real-world cases. Unlike past versions of this course, there is... View Details

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? In a new study, Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines. The more difficult question: Are these ratings reliable as a measure of product quality?... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

27 Nov 2013
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No Bologna, Please

SHAICH by Julia Hanna Imagine a restaurant that doesn't charge for its food. There's a box for money—and a suggested donation amount—but no one can see what you pay, if you pay anything at all. That's the concept behind Panera Cares, a... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2016
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Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time

and news to social media and video. That stability becomes easier to understand if you take into account that internet use inside most homes is an activity that takes place in little moments of free time that don’t change much. This... View Details

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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

characterizes a successful entrepreneur and the skills you need to thrive. Download for Free Business in Society E-Book Define your purpose, make the case for corporate social responsibility, further your education, and help enact change in your organization. Download... View Details

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Dec 2010
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New Orleans Resonance

teachers and staff. Few are accepted but those who are are paid well. “The ability to hire the best is the single most important factor in our success,” said Kleban, who hopes to build a small network of schools. “We are using basic... View Details

Keywords: charter schools

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Joan Colligan Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

(HRPBA 1957) Joan Colligan (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) "The program, as far as I was concerned, was a wonderful, wonderful opportunity for young women to learn about a world that they would not necessarily have been exposed to either then, or now. And gave them the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Advance Racial Equity in the Office

moved the needle at all.” Accountability is what will differentiate an insipid pledge from real progress. The objective is to define what progress looks like in practice. “There’s a basic framework for this,... View Details

08 May 2019
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Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

model into the finance world: it was an industry that had basically no concept of gig or contract workers. “It had never been a field that thought that way, so we had to explain to people why they should... View Details

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details

23 Jan 2020
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Bringing Education Back Home

university name. And we took the leadership concepts we learned here to position ourselves and the professors to have the models to pursue from the students. “Over time, when the parents of the kids started to see the difference on their... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the... View Details

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Erika Sanchez

believes her mentors were right. “You can learn concepts from textbooks,” she says, “but case conversations give you an internal understanding beyond theory. You hear other points of view, and see reactions to various ideas and how those... View Details

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Harvard Business School and Marc Epstein of Rice University. Key concepts include: Tightly monitored employees were less likely to make independent decisions, even if their job descriptions allowed them to do so. They were even less... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

an established cost accounting method, time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), to assess the costs of performing an abdomen and pelvis computed tomography (AP CT) in an academic radiology department. We then identified opportunities... View Details