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Fairness and Efficiency in Resource Allocation
In studying the relationship of fairness and efficiency, Professor Trichakis takes the novel approach of looking at varied industries for unifying factors, and he pays special attention to inequities by incorporating both quantitative work in social welfare and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
Cat’s Divorce,” where Link describes with spot-on satire the delicious frustration of an aging tech billionaire who can barely hide his envy of his sons’ youth. Link is a literary genius whose magical realism entertains and asks us to... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
takes to reinvent the bookstore for the age of Amazon Making Sense of the Modern Startup How Bill Sahlman invented Entrepreneurial Finance The Founding of AASU Four alumni recall the forces and factors that drove them to found the African... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
311-118 Worldwide, and in the U.S. marketplace in particular, the French cachet of L'Oréal was one of its most powerful marketing tools. However, with the opening up of emerging markets, L'Oréal had to cater to a diverse customer base: an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Student Research - Doctoral
Association for Consumer Research Acceptance of Automated Vehicles Is Lower for Self than Others By: Stuti Agarwal , Julian De Freitas , Anya Ragnhildstveit and Carey K. Morewedge Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death worldwide for people View Details
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The Information Age has introduced well recieved opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands show individuals their own performance; service companies including Uber and leading hospitals help pick from drivers or doctors based on how others rate them;... View Details
- March 2024
- Article
Investigation of Divergent Thinking among Surgeons and Surgeon Trainees in Canada (IDEAS): A Mixed-methods Study
By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W Busse, Ranil Sonnadara and Mohit Bhandari
Objective: To assess the creative potential of surgeons and surgeon trainees, as measured by divergent thinking. The secondary objectives were to identify factors associated with divergent thinking, assess confidence in creative problem-solving and the perceived effect... View Details
Thabane, Alex, Tyler McKechnie, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W Busse, Ranil Sonnadara, and Mohit Bhandari. "Investigation of Divergent Thinking among Surgeons and Surgeon Trainees in Canada (IDEAS): A Mixed-methods Study." BMJ Open 14, no. 3 (March 2024).
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
approaches in developing nations can impact global health. Recent Publications Allurion: Competing in the Age of GLP-1 By: Satish Tadikonda , Rajiv Lal , David Lane and Sarah Sasso October 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Shantanu Gaur had... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Wheel Change
A serial entrepreneur, Paris Wallace (MBA 2007/MPA 2008) is founder of Ovia Health and Good Start Genetics. But he started his first business—an online store selling bike parts and accessories—at age 16. With his launch this year of the National Cycling League (NCL),... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
suppliers to curate subscription boxes of artisanal food sold online. Why employees don’t want to return Barriers to rebuilding restaurant staffing begin with ensuring the safety of restaurant workers, including the need to take into account the View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer July 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Karl Lamprecht, President and CEO of the ZEISS AG Group, mused on how far ZEISS had come in 175 years of being a pioneer in optics, and how the course he had... View Details
- 2019
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The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This article focuses on the evolution of the rhetoric and practice of corporate offshoring in Switzerland from the post-war economic boom to the industrial crisis in the mid-seventies. The virtue of a historical perspective on the issue of offshoring is to show how... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Relocation; Labor Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Labor and Management Relations; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "The Social Desirability of Offshoring: A Swiss Consensus (1945–1975)." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 64, no. 2 (2019).
- June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014
By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
Viceira, Luis, and Emily A. Chien. "Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014." Harvard Business School Case 214-103, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
act responsibly toward the business and the family. Regulate appropriate family and owner inclusion in business discussions. The family assembly typically meets annually, lasts one to two days, and includes all adult family members (yes, including in-laws). Families... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
homogenization of beauty ideals. Beauty became associated with Western countries, and white people, and with women. These assumptions reflected wider societal trends. Western societies as a whole underwent growing gender differences in clothing and work. And this was... View Details
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Interviewing - Alumni
may have to work weekends and do not anticipate any issues with that. Age Illegal : How old are you? Legal : Are you over 18? Response : If you're wondering if I'm over 18, the answer is, "Yes." Arrest Record Illegal : Have you ever been... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Papa founded Endeca in 1999 after recognizing that in this age of overwhelming information overload, information access methods available for people to find what they are looking for or get answers are ineffective and inefficient. Endeca... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
for the underserved. It will provide me with a community of diverse perspectives in social impact, and the opportunity to learn from other sectors.” Madhav Datt. A joint degree student at HBS and SEAS, Madhav has founded two social enterprises. In 2004 at the View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Uber, Compensia HBS ACTIVITIES PRIDE Club, Rugby Club Joy Chen Joy seized every educational opportunity she could, first in China, and after age ten, in Canada and then the US. At age 16,... View Details