Matching - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2024
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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description

typically looking for mid-senior level roles, so the job title helps indicate if the job matches the level. Use short function or product-based keywords to describe the job's area of work. Think about the format and length Job... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2002
News

Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

advertising: the persuasive (building interest and awareness) and the informative (educating the consumer about product attributes). Separating these effects allowed Anand and Shachar to identify another, less-heartening reality for advertisers: When a View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Learning about the science in beauty

learned how to match clients to the right foundation shade, how to draw eyeliner and brows, and all along the way, got to practice and play on each other and ourselves! These classes ended up being some of my favorite memories from the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Feb 1999
News

NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

investment vehicles used by angel investors to find and fund entrepreneurs: groups of angels who evaluate deals together, organizations that match entrepreneurs with interested angels, and individual angels who seek out deals through... View Details

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

investment against cash flow to survive in a highly cyclical business. Such skills are usually transferable to new environments—and are the most portable type of human capital other than general management skills—but they won't offer an advantage if the strategic needs... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

13 Jun 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

That Costs HOW Much?

Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Research offers alternative approaches to getting the price right. How Would You... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

09 Jan 2017
News

Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader

experience. It took about a year for me to get matched, but when they finally matched me with Mike, we just instantly clicked. He was a very quiet kid, but a very sweet kid. Smart, athletic. He just had no father in his life; he had no... View Details

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Rawiah Abdallah

"I saw I could get that development myself at HBS." "The case method is a good match to my learning style," Rawiah says. "I learn better through stories. And I like the way HBS approaches management. At most... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Making a Case for Women

protagonists in their research, the School is matching the generous financial support of Alfus and C200. The creation of the fund was announced last October at C200's fifteenth anniversary celebration in Chicago, which was attended by... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Sparking Internet Commerce

reflects what they like, for example, in books or music. Online services equipped with Firefly's "relationship management" and "advanced personalization" software (such as bookseller Barnes & Noble or information provider My Yahoo!) digest this data and come up with... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
News

Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

hardest part of writing the book? Definitely matching experts and topics. It wasn’t just a matter of choosing people with expertise; it was also finding those who could deliver the information in 600 words and make it readable, fun, and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

brick-and-mortar shops: Shove your best deals to the back of the store. Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Oct 2001
News

Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch

Few student exploits over the summer could match the power lunch enjoyed by Reginald Sanders (HBS '02), who broke bread and talked business with Jack Welch, the legendary force behind General Electric. Sanders earned the honor of dining... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
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Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper

Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details

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13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

my military background, they were intrigued by my experience in project and change management, especially while leading teams. After months of conversations and interviews, I was matched with the Human Resources team at Uncommon Schools... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run by View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

extraction with a nice Python wrapper Camelot : a Python package that extracts tables from PDFs Fuzzy Matching Python Python’s dedupe package supports fuzzy matching using machine learning:... View Details

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

the production of high-quality niche content? "The number of eyeballs might not be as many, but advertisers obviously care about the match between content and an upper-end consumer," Zhu says. "If you are a very specialized... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

& Professional Development Office has been a golden resource helping me frame and translate my experience and accomplishments. Lastly, every company that’s visited campus has been enthusiastic about my, and other veterans’, military experience. They’ve View Details

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