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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

learned during the conference. Scott Jacobs, CEO of Generate Capital, a leading sustainable infrastructure platform, offered several surprisingly upbeat messages. Jacobs wrote: “Solving the Net Zero challenge is a physical problem, not a View Details

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

School and strengthened its role in the University. Furthermore, by building the pipeline of faculty, launching new global research offices and centers, increasing financial aid to attract students from diverse backgrounds, fostering One Harvard initiatives, and... View Details

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

dividends income as if they were separate sources of income. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54113 Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward L.,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2022
News

Generosity Multiplied

wonderful thing, and it’s become extremely effective at fundraising for lots of good causes,” says Reed, who cofounded the charity with his father, Sir Alec Reed (OPM 17, 1991). It was his father’s idea to take the technology used for the jobs website and create a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Adam Kanner

percent to 50 percent of tickets to live events go unsold. Reasons for this excess capacity vary, from a hefty rise in ticket prices for concerts and sporting events over the past decade, to a wave of digital entertainment options that... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor and senior associate dean for international development. More than half of the HBS faculty are actively involved in international research. While they often work with a specific global center to pursue... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

pursued an aggressive strategy of prosecutions and publicity against salary lenders. But they eventually realized that working people could not do without a source of quick cash in times of personal crisis, and their goals changed from... View Details

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

(MBA '87), and Lynn V. Odland (79th AMP), worked for over two years to put together the four-day program. In addition to two full days of talks and panel discussions, the conference featured hands-on technology demonstrations (including... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are,... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

requiring more exams and more years of training. Occupational licensing is oftentimes at the state level, so if you are licensed in Massachusetts it’s not obvious if you can work in Nevada. And there are a lot of costs attached to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

personality, psychological insights, and talented hands can create wonderful effects that amaze an audience. It's just as much about the hard, creative work Randal puts in to continuously improve his art. “Organizations can do a wonderful... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2016
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September 13, 2016

the industries in which they are most prevalent. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648 Harvard Business School Case 916-407 Survey Masters LLC (B) No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

Regina Herzlinger; former FCC head Reed Hundt, with Professor David Yoffie, in a session on the digital and broadband revolution; and top FBI official Philip Mudd, taking part in Associate Professor Jan Rivkin’s presentation on the... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

students from abroad. Interestingly, too, we’re finding that citizenship isn’t always a good indicator of “international.” What I mean here is that more and more of our students have worked or studied or had some extended stay in a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

of the application process, automating it and making it digital first. Soon, however, big banks woke up and realized they did not have to cede this market to the disruptors. JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo all started View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

the operations literature that systematically analyze the impact of e-intermediaries are lacking. Our work fills this gap and answers practical questions regarding the responsible operations of e-intermediaries. Methodology: We develop an... View Details