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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Harvard Business School Online and the support of HBS alumni, the School delivered financial results that came in significantly ahead of expectations. In a year when HBS had budgeted an operating deficit, the School instead generated an...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
technology environment while they're at school, because they're going to have to understand and manage technology in their subsequent careers. BULLETIN: Can you generalize about how the students have responded? CLARK: We like to think...
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- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract We suggest that online dating frequently fails to meet user expectations because people, unlike many commodities available for purchase online, are 'experience goods': Daters wish to screen potential romantic...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
array of the impacts that they generate (or can influence), from environmental conditions to employee health and safety to social conditions like the quality of public education. How can boards best organize themselves and act so as to...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
lifetime or be able to manage a Beyoncé. But you can learn a lot about how things work in general when you look at exceptions—when you study these really unusual cases. Here, participants walk away with a deeper understanding of why...
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- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
premium? "I think the central question posed by the cases—and we can generalize this more broadly beyond Porsche—is, what difference does location make in a globalized world? Can products just be manufactured anywhere?" One...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
Motown vice president and head of the label's $48 million catalog business, Bond is introducing the same Motown sound she enjoyed as a child to a new generation of listeners. "This music is such a big part of so many people's lives that I...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources-Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Our overall slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democrat (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly...
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- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
instead. The viewers found the ad moderately entertaining yet it generated a high purchasing intent in the 77th percentile, "striking a balance between entertaining viewers to grab their attention and maximizing the brand's...
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- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
depending on the characteristics of the applications market. Second, giving open access to one side in a proprietary platform may lead to fewer users and developers and to lower investment, relative to a platform with closed access to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
challenging for an individual to develop, and why? A: Upon his return from the first Gulf War, General Norman Schwarzkopf addressed the United States Military Academy at West Point and told the Corps of Cadets that leadership is about...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
India have worked with faculty to enrich the global content of the HBS curriculum. In addition, members of the Class of 2008 come from almost seventy countries, bringing a rich diversity of perspectives that has a profound influence on...
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- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
arrangements, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
When producing a unit of output, the content of the knowledge gained can vary dramatically from one unit to the next. This suggests that while aggregate experience in learning-by-doing is generally valuable,...
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- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute magazine View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various executive education offerings. Throughout our work, we seek to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the French rhythm of long midday breaks at home, reasonable working...
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- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
powerful.” While savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. Robust correctives to these misimpressions are offered and related to three different kinds of “no” in negotiation: a...
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Sean Silverthorne