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- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
the area, they don’t have to leave the group if they can make it work. “We’ve got some guys who fly in to Dallas for their meetings.” For more information on joining a Dallas forum, contact Van Sheets at van.sheets@gmail.com.
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- August 2020
- Technical Note
Comparing Two Groups: Sampling and t-Testing
This note describes sampling and t-tests, two fundamental statistical concepts.
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Keywords:
Statistics;
Econometric Analyses;
Experimental Methods;
Data Analysis;
Data Analytics;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Surveys;
Mathematical Methods
Bojinov, Iavor I., Chiara Farronato, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Willy C. Shih, and Michael W. Toffel. "Comparing Two Groups: Sampling and t-Testing." Harvard Business School Technical Note 621-044, August 2020.
- October 2016
- Article
Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity
By: Alan MacCormack and Daniel J. Sturtevant
Technical debt is created when design decisions that are expedient in the short-term increase the costs of maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and...
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Keywords:
Information Infrastructure;
Performance Efficiency;
Applications and Software;
Infrastructure
MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant. "Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity." Journal of Systems and Software 120 (October 2016): 170–182. (Received 31 May 2015. Revised 28 May 2016. Accepted 4 June 2016.)
- January 1995 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
TV Guide (B)
TV Guide, the nation's most profitable and largest magazine, attempts entry into the world of electronic publishing. The crux of TV Guide's strategy is to transform the magazine's content into a centralized database that can be accessed by new businesses, like...
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Market Entry and Exit;
Service Delivery;
Information Technology;
Marketing;
Information Publishing;
Service Industry;
Publishing Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Steven M. Salzinger. "TV Guide (B)." Harvard Business School Case 395-032, January 1995. (Revised September 1997.)
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
While the External Relations team is working to develop a lifelong learning program for alumni, efforts are under way elsewhere at the School to help prepare MBA students for their lives beyond HBS. Professor Leslie Perlow, with 17 second-year MBA students, is creating...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New Orleans College Prep (NOCP)....
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charter schools
- October 2016 (Revised October 2023)
- Case
Bootstrapping at Lightricks
By: Robert White, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively
By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run rate of nearly $10 million, and achieved modest profitability. The bootstrapped company had...
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Business Startup;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Business Startups;
Digital Marketing;
Finance;
Strategy;
Technology Industry;
Israel
White, Robert, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Christine Snively. "Bootstrapping at Lightricks." Harvard Business School Case 817-051, October 2016. (Revised October 2023.)
- October 2014
- Module Note
Market Design in Online Businesses (Abridged)
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
The purpose of this note is to characterize the challenges entrepreneurs may face in creating a well-functioning ecosystem of users, and to equip entrepreneurs with tools to overcome these obstacles. The note is meant to accompany the final module of the "The Online...
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Keywords:
Platform Design;
Network Effects;
Market Design;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "Market Design in Online Businesses (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Module Note 915-016, October 2014.
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!
By: David J. Collis
Teaching note for HBS No. 715-441 on Facebook's $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Rangan. "Their ideas, financial support, and energy provide much of the wind at our backs as we enter our third decade." For more information on the Social Enterprise Initiative and its 20 years of impact, visit...
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SEI
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
For companies to redeem credibility with investors, argue Harvard Business School professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu, "fundamental and even radical reforms must be made to the way America's markets process the flows of View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- April 17, 2021
- Article
Reimagining India's Health System: A Lancet Citizens' Commission
By: Vikram Patel, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gagandeep Kang, Pamela Das and Tarun Khanna
This commentary announces the launch of the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System. The Commission is an ambitious, cross-sectoral effort to develop a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) in India in the next decade....
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Patel, Vikram, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Gagandeep Kang, Pamela Das, and Tarun Khanna. "Reimagining India's Health System: A Lancet Citizens' Commission." Lancet 397, no. 10283 (April 17, 2021). (Comment.)
- 2001
- Book
State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars
By: William C. Kirby, James Chin Shih, Man-houng Lin and David A. Pietz
Kirby, William C., James Chin Shih, Man-houng Lin and David A. Pietz, eds. State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University, Asia Center, 2001.
- 2002
- Book
Production Systems: Handbook of Operations Management
By: L. Gaio, Francesca Gino and E. Zaninotto
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not surprisingly, when the coronavirus hit,...
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- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University have announced the launch of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Funded by a $32 million gift from...
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Government
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
From Control to the Uncontrollable: Faculty Research Symposium Offers Range of Ideas
Members of the HBS faculty published 23 books and 157 papers and book chapters last year. In late May, the School recognized faculty achievement at the second annual Faculty Research Symposium. Sponsored by the Division of Research and Faculty Development, the event...
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- 11 Feb 2010
- Working Paper Summaries