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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
that monitors radio broadcasts and frequencies and identifies songs as they air. Songs are scanned into a computer to create a digital "fingerprint," which is then matched against music played by radio stations monitored by ConneXus... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
phrase that matches a known response, the student gets a "hit"; if not, a "strike." After three strikes, all possible answers are revealed. Grades are based on a combination of engagement in the course and mastery of content; assuming a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
decided they should return to Germany. "In family matters, Mechtild held the reins and I was riding shotgun. She wanted our daughter to have a clear sense of belonging." In 1990, tragedy struck when Mechtild was diagnosed with blood cancer. She needed a bone marrow... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
provide a system for idea developers and capital providers to find the appropriate matches and enable entrepreneurship to flourish even in these constrained times. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
and a friend, and his dad up Mt. Baker, which is the third highest peak in the state of Washington and the second most glaciated. White: Many of your fellow alumni also are avid hikers or climbers. But for those who have never tried to View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
organizations and the challenges they face is an essential part of the experience. And the range of perspectives is amazing. The geographic diversity of the participants is matched and possibly exceeded by the diversity of the causes and... View Details
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54476 Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace By: Gu, Grace, and Feng Zhu Abstract—As an intermediary improves trust between two sides of its market to facilitate View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
policy implications of these findings. The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open source, and users extensively mix... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
neutral. 'Fair Marriages': An Impossibility Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Publication:Economics Letters (forthcoming) Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible, i.e., fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
and infrastructure, and with personnel costs that match European standards, we can compete only on the basis of high-quality French Caribbean service. We do have one luxury hotel that already exhibits that standard: the Cap Est Lagoon... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
over the past seven years or so. But the audience still has a voracious appetite for great content. There's this sort of consumer expectation that they're always going to be served up something special, something surprising, something new. And I think what we need to... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
Business School, I now ask you to look forward and consider how you will instill Hard Work, with Humility, for Humanity in the organizations you will lead. How do you get an organization to embrace hard work? Some leaders do it by setting a pace themselves and hoping... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
advertising and profit generated through those observations, they could get a sense it by also matching the number of restaurant clicks to sales data for the subset of businesses being given the free advertising. The calculation suggested... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
first receiver to be named Super Bowl MVP since 1989. Though Branch’s statistics did not match those of the top receivers in the game, he earned a reputation as a big-game performer. In 2006 the Patriots offered him a three-year $18.85... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
demand increasing levels of psychological maturity. Q: Is there anything you've seen of the second Gulf War that suggests increased leadership development since the first one? A: From a purely research perspective, the second Gulf War offers up a unique opportunity, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Policy - Business & Environment
reached the same conclusion. Exxon’s 1982 estimate of rising C02 and temperatures match actual measurements today. The Role of Business in Climate Policy By 1988 climate change was widely recognized by scientists and the general public.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne