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- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
lose $1.4 billion in value under Quaker's stewardship in just four years? How did Triarc restore most of that value in less than three years? What did Triarc do with such apparently effortless grace that... View Details
- Web
Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
addressing inefficiencies that result in over $300 billion in lost value annually. Inspired by her personal experience navigating a high-risk pregnancy during her time at HBS, Somani is committed to... View Details
- July 2023
- Article
Before or After? The Effects of Payment Decision Timing in Pay-What-You-Want Contexts
By: Raghabendra P. KC, Vincent Mak and Elie Ofek
We study how payment decision timing—before versus after product delivery—influences consumer payment under pay-what-you-want pricing. We focus on situations where there is minimal change in consumer uncertainty regarding the product before versus after receiving it.... View Details
KC, Raghabendra P., Vincent Mak, and Elie Ofek. "Before or After? The Effects of Payment Decision Timing in Pay-What-You-Want Contexts." Journal of Marketing 87, no. 4 (July 2023): 618–635.
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
and Learning To prepare for the discussion of reparations for these century-old crimes, Ratajczak spent more time than usual thinking about how to best present his arguments and the language he would choose to make his point. “I wanted to... View Details
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Retirement Plan or Life Insurance - Alumni
Keogh, or profit-sharing plan. Life Insurance If you have more life insurance coverage than you need, you may consider giving HBS a paid-up policy now. By transferring the ownership of your policy to the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
some of the biggest mistakes people make when having conversations? Too many to list here! What it means to “make mistakes” depends on your goals, which vary from conversation to conversation. Sometimes we just want to enjoy our time with... View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
entrepreneurs saw the outlines of competition in their respective industries before other players and could thus act quickly to create and control what became the standards of rivalry in each young market.) The economic spoils of this system have been View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
to somehow be of service to others.” A graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in computer science, he recalls that, at the time he applied to HBS, deciding between an advanced degree in business or in religion was “almost a toss-up.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
research effort. In 1996, however, Cheauré made a dramatic shift when he parlayed his enthusiasm for purebred dogs into a second career and took the helm of the American Kennel Club (AKC), a $60 million not-for-profit organization devoted to the “sport” of purebred... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
Austin Scee (MBA 2001) is the founder and CEO of Razorhorse Capital in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in college and through his time at HBS, he volunteered as a mentor with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America. In this interview, he talks... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
key industry has shut down and the team needs to reevaluate how to continue delivering value under these new conditions The relaunch is also an opportunity to discuss how team members’ own perspectives on the team’s purpose may have... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names. "The larger an organization... View Details
- 24 May 2014
- News
Analysts’ dim view of CSR brightens over time
- 01 May 2015
- Blog Post
How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life
parents through cancer treatments and my husband through a deployment. Somewhere during that decade, I stopped dreaming about what life could be, and started hoping for what life wouldn’t be. This is how I... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Home Sweet Home: How Much Do Employees Value Remote Work?
By: Zoë B. Cullen, Bobak Pakzad-Hurson and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
We estimate the value employees place on remote work using revealed preferences in a high-stakes, real-world context, focusing on U.S. tech workers. On average, employees are willing to accept a 25% pay cut for partly or fully remote roles. Our estimates are three to... View Details
Cullen, Zoë B., Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Home Sweet Home: How Much Do Employees Value Remote Work?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33383, January 2025.
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
that’s what I wanted to pursue for the summer,” said Kaelyn, who accepted an internship in strategic finance at Nature’s Fynd, a startup that created a new alternative protein. Adding value as a career switcher The MS/MBA curriculum... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2020
- Working Paper
Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time
By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland and Peter K. Schott
We show that unexpected changes in the trajectory of COVID-19 infections predict U.S. stock returns, in real time. Parameter estimates indicate that an unanticipated doubling (halving) of projected infections forecasts next-day decreases (increases) in aggregate U.S.... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Stock Returns; Health Pandemics; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland, and Peter K. Schott. "Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26950, April 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle. Today, lack of leisure time may just be the real status symbol. Does Le... View Details