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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-37), the U.S. Emergency Board, convened to resolve the wage controversy between railroad management and labor during the 1938 railway strike, and; and his work as a special trial examiner for the... View Details

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52623 View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Sep 2015
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Is the Auction House of the Future Online?

tech-minded CEO Tad Smith (MBA 1992), has staked its claim to the online middle market, announcing a partnership earlier this year with eBay to stream live auctions. Amid these competitors Paddle8 has positioned itself as the digital... View Details

Keywords: April White; Wu-Tang Clan

November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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MiDAS: Automating Unemployment Benefits

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In 2015, the state of Michigan considered whether to nominate its Michigan Integrated Data Automated System (MiDAS) for a prestigious state technology award. Launched in 2013 amid severe budget pressures, the $47 million automated fraud detection system was designed to... View Details

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01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

travel activities booking site, “dedicated to making travel planning enjoyable.” Earlier this year, Peek raised an additional $10 million and announced an instant-booking partnership with Yelp. Getaway CEO Jon Staff (MBA 2016) Founded in 2015 Tiny vacation houses for... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2016
News

The Future of Books

living in an HBS case study over the last 15 years, as the book industry has been transforming itself into a more digital industry. As recently as five years ago, some of the crystal ball folks said, “Oh, physical books are going to go... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “All [employees] will regard themselves as labor in the sense of having as their common purpose learning new things and... View Details

24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

more than a material exchange in labor relations). Third, we study survey data for the 1990s on the beliefs of Peronist and non-Peronist voters in Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the United States. While income and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2019
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A Model of Drive and Impact

three years), and the opportunity it has provided to fulfill a personal mission. “What we do at Clicars is to eliminate in-person visits to car dealerships through digitalization and trust. Thirty percent of consumers would rather go to... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot

2016, and last November, Nike announced that it was ending a pilot program with Amazon Retail that it began in 2017, opting to focus on “elevating consumer experiences through more direct, personal relationships,” according to a statement from the company. And hundreds... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

concurred that photographs were “especially valuable in the industrial management classes because they portray so clearly such practical industrial problems as the relationship between the laborer and the machine.” Baker Library |... View Details

December 2022
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Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market

By: Yanhui Wu and Feng Zhu

A growing number of people today are participating in the gig economy, working as independent contractors on short-term projects. We study the effects of competition on gig workers' effort and creativity on a Chinese novel-writing platform. Authors produce and sell... View Details

Keywords: Gig Workers; Platform-based Markets; Novel Writing; Creative Production; Platform Bias; Employment; Digital Platforms; Creativity; Books; Competition; Contracts

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14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

of people's relationships with brands and a demonstration of the important and timely implications of this evolving sub-discipline. A range of different brand relationship environments are explored in the collection, including online View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Dec 2013
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HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the decreasing revenues created falling margins and increased leverage... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

13 Apr 2022
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New School

continued despite school closures, including developing free, printable reading and math activity packs in English and Spanish. It also developed teacher guides to keep K–8 students learning even if they didn’t have reliable internet access. The company also expanded... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds

better digital experience buying food,” he says. “They expect to interact with brands they can love and that care about waste, not brands that they can tolerate. We think we’re pushing on an open door.” View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just View Details

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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

leaders, but employees can also work to close gaps by illustrating that their labor is invaluable. This has historically been achieved through various means, but most often through collective bargaining. Professor Beshears’ case study on... View Details

27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

Bryan Mezue (MBA 2013, Forum for Growth and Innovation), Taylor Thompson (MBA 2013, Forum for Growth and Innovation), Alexis Lefort (HBS Forum for Growth and Innovation), Colin Maclay (HBS Digital Initiative), Emily Snyder (HBS Staff),... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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