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Career Support - Business & Environment

to connect with alumni: HBS Initiatives Mentor Match Program Current MBA students can email us to join our online platform that facilitates ongoing connections between students interested in pursuing careers at the intersection of... View Details

August 2015
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Building an e-Commerce Brand at Wayfair

By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins

Wayfair, Inc. comprised five home goods, furniture, and décor e-commerce brands. Wayfair.com, the main brand, which was responsible for the majority of sales, targeted the mass-middle home-goods market. AllModern, DwellStudio, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane were niche... View Details

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Purchase

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

in freezing snow, I almost turned back. But I trudged on and rang the doorbell, and the man who matched the voice on the phone welcomed me. When I stepped inside, someone shouted, “Annette!” I looked around and saw one of my professors,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Upcoming Interview? No Problem—Just Connect the Dots

skills, strategy experience, or any other requisite, you want to be able to spell out to the interviewer how the dots on your resume perfectly match the dots on their job posting. And if your dots don’t View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Screening and Portfolio Tilts Engagement and Proxy Voting ESG Integration and Alpha Generation Sustainable Public Market Funds Featured Exercises Evaluate the ESG performance of various companies Match ESG use cases to corresponding... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

matched in ambition by its goals, which include nothing less than creating an economic growth engine that can support the world’s youngest and fastest-growing continental population, says Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), the NBA’s deputy... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

gain access to workers' compensation data. Because the data were collected at the company level, the researchers limited their analysis to firms with only one plant, where the effects of an inspection on injury rates and costs could be clearly identified. Finally, they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

to 25 percent. The company also matches the gratuities; the total has been rising steadily since Trader Joe’s began stocking the product in its 200 California stores in 2021, and Nyamumbo expects it to grow significantly following the... View Details

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

by instituting freezes on hiring and wage increases, limiting employee rewards and recognition programs, and reducing the company match to employee 401k retirement accounts. In light of the cost reductions imposed throughout Honeywell,... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

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Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

importance of allocating resources in such a way that they match the strategy, starting with tales of woe from giants like Unilever and Apple and segueing into stories of friends whose marriages fell apart due to neglect. "Watch where... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

school at Harvard is not cheap. The great news is that both HBS and HLS are exceptional at supporting veterans through the financial aid process. Many veterans qualify for educational assistance programs through the VA. HLS and HBS View Details

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

speculation did not match the reality. Respondents guessed that their firm's reputation would be most negatively affected by bribery, followed in speculated impact by business relations, employee morale, and relations with regulators. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Research Summary

By: Leslie A. Perlow

There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

and payday is courtesy of Assistant Professor Doug J. Chung, who reviewed 117 schools with Division I football and basketball teams, matching athletic performance with revenue flow covering an 11-year period. The findings were... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

in most of its major markets, reinforced by cross-border scale economies in such areas as trading, logistics, information technology, and innovation (in the broadest sense of the term). Mixing and matching was possible in this case... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

they do best and become increasingly engaged in a specific issue. Alignment. The nonprofit's challenge is to strengthen its economic value to match the efficacy of its social value. Corporations need to bring social value in line with... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

the nature of the problem, match solution techniques with problems, seek diversity in our feedback, and use technology where possible. Among other things, he argues, we ignore the subtle and ignored biases that our experiences impose on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

capabilities to your customers' needs and to match your customers to your capabilities. You must focus your capabilities where they will mean the most to the customer. The real secret to being a price maker is to walk away from business... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

were used. Determine your (or your device or ISP’s) non-specific geographic location. Collect information regarding your IP address, unique IDs of cookies, unique IDs sent from mobile devices, and other device and electronic information. Serve content or advertisements... View Details

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