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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
are turning to the banks, which are directing investors' money into places as speculative as dot-com and telecom stocks. But this time the destruction of investors' value isn't likely to take the form of a large run-up in share prices... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
perspective. Over the long term, a main driver of a country's exchange rate is probably its current account deficit or surplus. In the medium term, you probably want to look at inflation rates. But at the day-to-day level, changes in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
be classified into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Each of the five segments has its own behavioral and demographic characteristics, with varying levels of uncertainty about the View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
stood for something vital and resilient. So, it would be overstating it to say they were uniquely responsible [for building their organization’s reputation] but they were quick to realize the value of it. Silverthorne: Why is resiliency... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
sensible, potentially quite lucrative and, in a word, simple. Altruism is just a nice by-product. Looking For Drivers The phenomenon of open source has roots in a long tradition of sharing and cooperation in software development (see... View Details
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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets
Iberoamerican Academy of Management Humanistic Leadership and Support for the Sustainable Development Goals MAR 21 2023 Book Faculty Research Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership By: Geoffrey Jones SEPT 2022 Article Journal of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
on Wall Street,” Sityodtong says as his driver navigates traffic to a weigh-in event the night before the fights. “On Wall Street I wanted to make millions of dollars, and I did that. Changing the world and making a positive impact on the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
First, pricing and value are inherently intertwined. Yet, most companies use cost-plus pricing. That's dangerous in an information-rich world. Amazon, for instance, takes thousands of SKUs for consumer goods and distills this into... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
constraining, and therefore strategic resource is no longer capital. The world is awash in funding. Most companies have got more financial capital than they've got great ideas to invest in. The main driver of the merger and acquisition... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award for the Best Paper in Fixed Income from The Society for Financial Studies, 2014 Finance Cavalcade, for “Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks” (with John Y. Campbell and Carolin E. Pflueger). 2013 Malcolm P. Baker :... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Operations Management (M&SOM) Journal Best Paper Award for “The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment” with Santiago Gallino. Michael W. Toffel : Finalist for the 2021 MSOM Responsible... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
class and how will you apply it in the future?The value driver framework, especially Professor Esty’s belief that value creation can create win-win-wins in society without... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
FY19 174 FY20 211 FY21 227 FY22 247 FY23 Harvard is obligated to preserve the endowment’s purchasing power by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, for whatever reason, would privilege... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
should," says Harvard Business School professor Ananth Raman. Their influence is akin to the danger of drivers rubbernecking at the scene of a highway accident. In the days after 9/11, says Raman, the retailing executives with whom... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer