Matching - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

The $4 Billion Question

hire enough people to develop ideas to invest all $4 billion. To match talent and fund size, we would have to enter more auctions.” Yudkoff believes that pursuing auction deals would result in a lower IRR, with gross returns of 18 to 25... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

principle and spirit of ethical reciprocity in the definition and pursuit of corporate purpose. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55998 Harvard Business School Case 919-413 Wattpad How to run a platform to View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

compared to other fields in academia, it’s still a golden era for graduating students. Accounting remains an incredibly popular undergraduate major, so there continues to be demand for quality teachers. “It helps to think of these interviews as dates, where a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

privatization announcement, served as a credible commitment to the government's privatization agenda. Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is it Possible? Authors:Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

successful promoter? A: I am not sure there is a secret ingredient. I think it is more about the entire "recipe" being right. Companies try to find athletes with brand attributes that match those of the products the athlete is... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

them to alleviate poverty and mitigate climate change, and saw strategic investing as the ideal match for influencing change at scale. However, it would not be a simple career switch; they each needed to clearly identify why their... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

Web

Midwest Student Association | MBA

match their recruiting needs with the job interests of Harvard Business School. Annual Events Annual Cornhole Tournament Taste of the Midwest Potluck Bonfire and S'mores Night Midwest Sports Watch Parties Club Email Address... View Details

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March–April 2023
Article

Market Segmentation Trees

By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis

Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details

Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing

01 Jun 2005
News

Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster

however, concluded that the normal ways of working did not apply to Aceh province. “We simply needed to get out of the way and let the people rebuild,” he says. “The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn’t work. It takes time... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

an impact in a wide range of industries. Q: How has this area changed over the years since your first visit? A: While Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong have always had a strong bias for entrepreneurship and global competitiveness (albeit evolving to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

24 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

such as level of experience, job function preferences and desired organizational benefits. Create personas for each segment.Create personas that match each of your target audience segments. For example, Jessica is a recent MBA graduate... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

vision.” Each $2 tablet makes 20 ounces of nontoxic solution that has proven cleaning power. “One of the goals is to make sure that our products perform well in third-party independent testing, and we’re excited that they have matched or... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 1996
News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

is that the School dramatically increased its investment in research and course development: from $10 million in 1980 to more than $50 million in 1995. HBS faculty members cite the former Dean's long-term vision, his skill at matching... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and educational services. It does this by... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

phenomenon, he suggested, may be that American models are themselves in need of increased scrutiny. The wide variety of governance models presented was matched by a diverse array of panelists and discussion leaders drawn from fourteen... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in... View Details