Matching - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

"Clicks and Mortar." [Image: iStock] Related Reading How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Research Paper Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

case exhibit. "We looked at the diameters, and then we actually measured the size of four pictures, and we noticed that the relative sizes of the pictures don’t match the relative size of the watches,” Thomke remembers them saying.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

sports and new sports, as well as old media and new media," he says. "The most exciting stuff seems to be about new sports and new media, but there are also new configurations of old sports." For example, some leagues now play "short form... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

globe which match (this) School of Management and produce high quality talent." Winfried Hermann Schoepf expressed concerns about whether we will be admiring Google's approach to management in the future. "I have some doubt... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

candidates for leadership. The process will tend to prevent people with unique personalities from gaining leadership positions, or the state's governing political ideology will ensure that only a certain type of person can come to power, or the process of choosing a... View Details

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

prior match is discovered, only then is a new number assigned. The demand for Aadhaar has been huge, creating long lines at enrollment stations. Within three months of the initial rollout of the UIDAI program in September 2010, 100,000... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

Foundation, Seizing Every Opportunity (SEO), Consortium for Graduate Management (CGSM), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Council for Legal Education Opportunity, Ron Brown Scholars, QuestBridge, Urban Dove, Year Up *Don't forget to consider whether your... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

unprecedented challenges, she and classmate Amina Edwards (MBA 2020) launched “MBAs Fight COVID-19” to match distressed business owners with students offering pro bono consulting help. “MBAs across the country were eager to pitch in,”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details

April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details

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20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

to raise additional capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53962 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

affected by how similar (in both size and valence) those causes were to event consequences. Additional experiments further suggested that this "consequence-cause matching" arises because people are motivated to see the world as predictable, and because View Details