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  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

working-capital needs of the business, we have to be careful to manage supply and demand." What one piece of advice would you give fellow alumni and current HBS students when it comes to startup life? "Keep going and stay positive.... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2011
  • News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation

With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

learning from parallel R&D projects in the setting of drug development. Leveraging the biopharmaceutical industry's unique characteristics to overcome barriers to measuring the project-level response to competitor news, I employ a difference-in-differences strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

disciplinary boundaries. The Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research Conference in Information Sciences and Technology (DESRIST) was an important milepost in their evolution. It provided a forum where students and leading... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA Program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Where Are They Now?

heading into the MBA classroom that first day,” he recalls. But there was another challenge to teaching accounting courses: making them lively. Merchant says he started by getting students to understand the economics of a transaction,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. In this case students explore the challenges of using sentiment analysis to monitor and understand public perception around brands.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

statements and others to write resumes for jobs that didn’t mention diversity. They found minorities were half as likely to whiten their resumes when applying for jobs with employers who said they care about diversity. One black student... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how Schultz and his team saved Starbucks from near collapse, by both executing a deep,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

change; 2) determine what sort of change is called for (e.g., radical or incremental); 3) develop a delivery strategy that fosters stakeholder buy-in; and, 4) evaluate impact. Managers, instructors, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

outperformance." This case provides an opportunity to evaluate Goldman's decision to raise capital, the cost to the firm of Buffett's investment, and the decision by Warren Buffett to make the investment, all in the context of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Greylock

extraordinarily demanding group of fellow students and faculty. Developing the skills to listen carefully, think analytically, and communicate clearly is a requirement of leadership." CHARLES WAITE University of Connecticut, 1957 B.S.,... View Details
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

and Alison Wood Brooks. Excellence Comes From Saying No (31,511) In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law students help each other define and achieve their own interpretations of success. Lesson one: You... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

explores the role of economic and cluster performance. Detailed historical economic and social data allow for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes highlighting the main economic challenges the city was facing in 2012.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

thin representation at senior levels remains in place. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51896 Are 'Better' Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation By: Scott, Erin L.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace