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01 Mar 2015
News

An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers

peer-to-peer mentoring, whether through teaching groups, by co-teaching, or from senior colleagues. Even as they progress in their careers, the focus on exceptional teaching remains a priority for faculty members at all levels. To match... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
Case

Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg

By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia

The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Auctions; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Strategy; Education Industry; Sports Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

part of the Match Group that also owns Match.com. The app uses geolocation—a tactic popularized by the all-male dating app Grindr, which launched in 2009—to present potential dates who are nearby. And, most influentially, Tinder... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

The next step involved creating a match sample. "The first thing we did was try to find for each public firm in the United States a private firm that was of similar size and in the same industry," Farre-Mensa says. Although this... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

you start to see technologies like matching and balance sheets in corporate accountability reports, he continues, then it is less likely to be 'window dressing' in the sense that Milton Friedman described it. “We have to define what it is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

05 May 2015
Blog Post

See What's New on our Site

events that match your hiring needs Finding Student Clubs to partner with that are relevant to your target audience 2) Data & Statistics - The new data and statistics section provides a more interactive experience for those interested... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Apr 2019
News

Keeping an Eye on Things

combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. And we do know that much of the work that we do verifying does... View Details

Keywords: Biometrics

04 Feb 2008
News

After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

several years ago. Both advise prospective students that the rankings provide little useful information for matching one’s ambitions with a particular school’s program. Stepping into the fray, the Graduate Management Admission Council... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
News

The Network Effect

introduced him to Clara Health, a startup specializing in making that connection for all disease types. Within two weeks the team had published a website using Clara’s software (gratis) to match those conducting clinical trials with... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

which can be indexed by the number of varieties consumers purchase in equilibrium. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-095.pdf Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians Authors: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Flip Klijn Abstract We consider... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Edward R. Stettinius

however, is most known for denouncing Diamond Match’s patent rights to the first nonpoisonous match making process, promoting safety by allowing the industry to have full access to the new technique. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Apr 2002
News

The Simplest Taste

After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as successful as the company's "his-and-hers" holiday gift offerings - such as View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Feb 2022
News

AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say

Photo via Pymetrics Photo via Pymetrics A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of Frida Polli (MBA 2012), a neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics, an AI-powered recruiting and job matching platform, to employ... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

century-old match industry when he took the helm of Diamond Match Company in 1914. Fairburn designed a manufacturing process using sesquisulphate to produce matches rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

May–June 2025
Article

Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces

By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno

Most online sales worldwide take place in marketplaces that connect sellers and buyers. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of listings for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available options. Online... View Details

Keywords: Algorithms; Marketplaces; Marketplace Matching; E-commerce; Demand and Consumers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Market Participation; Technology Adoption

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Purchase

01 Mar 2023
News

The Exchange: Micro Management

match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and make sure your customers are... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset incorporating information on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Fall Reunions

Fall Reunions Photos by Neal Hamberg and Susan Young Occasionally gloomy skies were no match for reunion exuberance the weekend of September 23 as more than 2,200 alumni and guests—the second largest turnout ever for fall... View Details

Keywords: reunion

Charles A. Cannon

Cannon pioneered a number of industry advances in cloth towel manufacturing including national consumer advertising, the Cannon trademark sewn into each towel, pastel colors, the wrapping of products in clear plastic, style shows, and View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

01 Dec 2007
News

All Aboard for Board Members

Since Alumni Career Services launched its board of directors résumé database a year ago, it has grown to more than 1,000 names of HBS graduates interested in serving on public or private boards. Initially, only executive search firms could access the database to assist... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

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