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  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention;... View Details
  • Web

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
  • Web

Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes phoned convicted felon Bernie... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

Zoe Sun (MBA 2024) is a recent graduate from China. Prior to HBS, she worked at an Asia-focused private equity fund in Hong Kong. At HBS, she was Co-Chief Admissions Ambassador and Social Chair for Greater China Club. She is a recipient of the Global Opportunity... View Details
  • March 2017 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing

By: Kris Ferreira and Karim R. Lakhani
Kate Wilson, retail analytics manager at Flashion, a fashion flash-sale site, is tasked with developing analytics to optimize pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Pricing; Data; Service Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; United States
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  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation process. By most measures, the more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting

school in my final year of undergrad. I was accepted to other business schools right away but was told by Harvard Business School that I would only be accepted if I had a year of post-graduate work experience under my belt. I believed in the effectiveness of the case... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

break to earn his MBA (with distinction), and then continued up the ranks as submarine squadron commander and finally deputy oceanographer of the Navy. After retiring from the Navy, he took an assignment with the Defense Advanced Research... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

executive programs have substantial negotiation components as well. The unit's research methods include everything from analyzing negotiations in progress to psychological lab studies with subjects in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • Web

Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

social dimensions of the Bubble. From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method Since the 1920s, HBS has been an innovative leader in the development and refinement of teaching with the case method, helping to shape... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

By: Philippe Aghion, Diego A. Comin, Peter Howitt and Isabel Tecu
Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; Saving; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods
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Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews

By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao
This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry
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HBS Live Online Classrooms | Information Technology

HBS Live Online Classrooms Providing an immersive and dynamic online classroom experience, where case method teaching and learning comes to life in a state-of-the-art virtual environment. Play Immersive & engaging learning, delivered... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

The School that Donham Built

campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 04 Oct 2017
  • Blog Post

What Should German Applicants Know about HBS?

people he met from the business school. I then did some additional research and decided to apply.  Why did you want to do a two year MBA, rather than a one year MBA in Europe? MBAs are not as common, since unlike in the US, we usually do... View Details
  • July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

By: Anette Mikes
This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Credit; Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Management. Doriot taught Industrial Management and Manufacturing classes that focused on manufacturing methods and organization, material and labor, and conduct and control of production. It was at this time that Doriot met Edna Allen, a... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne