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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
says there is reason for optimism in the senior-care space. “As the population swells, as there are more expectations around technology and quality of care, I think that we’re entering a very, very exciting decade.” View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
I was humbled by this conversation. It was very powerful and very well received.” Julia Rocco (PLDA 24), club copresident, added that conversation was encouraging for her, as many people expressed a lot of optimism for the LGBT community... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
template for the way life really works.” “My biggest takeaway from HBS was the problem-solving approach engendered by the case method, which is more about optimizing a workable, sustainable solution than arriving at the ‘right’ answer.”... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small, a lower-ability menu setter... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
overview of key issues that Lebowitz and his team must consider as they plan for the firm's growth—how to raise capital, how to gauge the optimal size for the company, and how to manage an expanding staff. A major highlight of the case is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
lackluster. Able to deploy all the tools along the capital curve of impact investing, which if any is optimal for Anudip? The case recounts the transition of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, from the Omidyar Family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
have a rigorous and transparent procurement process—help landlords, investors, and tenants alike to optimize the whole asset, and not be bogged down by those otherwise competing interests," he says. Assessing The Paper's Results Toffel... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
outcome can be replicated by a licensing scheme in which innovators sell complete patent rights, and (2) they are dynamically unstable. We find that none of the above regimes can reach first or second best. Finally, we consider patents of finite duration and determine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Natalie Deschamps MBA 2015 | A Fundamental Foundation "I ultimately... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
correlation has implications for managerial actions regarding targeting and optimal discounting. We find that retailers can make misleading inferences about the impact of targeted discounts when they ignore cross-category effects in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
the developed world. And is very promising in showing a pathway to address greenhouse gas emissions in emerging markets. So yes, there are many moments of optimism and of excitement, as we see this new Industrial Revolution unfold.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
with every link in the chain benefiting with endless opportunities for continuous innovation and improvements. That, of course, translates into job creation and retention. Without this, we all stagnate and lose that uniquely American competitive drive, can-do attitude,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
what goes on in any organization or community sliding downhill—suppression of information, group vs. group antagonisms, isolation and self-protection, passivity and hopelessness. He began the turnaround with messages of optimism and hope,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them for View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
January 31 to February 1. Before a Burden Hall audience of some nine hundred students, business leaders, and academics, keynote speaker Dr. Edgar Cheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, voiced optimism for the British colony's... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne