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18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

app-based ride-hailing, shopping, and food-delivery platforms working more hours to compensate for pandemic-related job losses within their households. As this trend accelerated, Oberholzer-Gee and Katsnelson looked for an opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

for the company. It was about keeping the business unit alive and not jeopardizing thousands of jobs overnight." A financial analysis of the return on such contracts called those beliefs into question. "After completing a thorough audit... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

carefully research our next big purchase. And yet, like Greg, you may have found yourself following a course of action that took you completely off track — putting off your job search, sabotaging your diet, spending too much on trivial... View Details

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

for predominantly white spaces is still not be enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

credit went unanswered. So when Mills left SBA to come to HBS, she did the research herself. The resulting 2014 working paper found that small business was experiencing a credit crunch, particularly in lending from banks, despite creating two out of every three new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

are commonly called thrifts: savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions. Savings institutions were really the first financial intermediaries established specifically to serve the personal saving and borrowing needs of... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the U.S. economy. Second is to avoid a situation where the failure of one... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

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Commencement 2012 Address | About

Commencement 2012 Address Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 24 May 2012 The HBS Class of 2012, friends and family, and members of the HBS community. Good afternoon, and welcome. Class of 2012! You are the first group of MBA... View Details

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

users. Not only does it teach a skill set (coding) that is increasingly in demand in the job market, but its users are so loyal and engaged that they have provided the bulk of the learning content themselves at no cost. Codecademy's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

executives to provide on-the-scene examples of how the organization's values are lived on the job is important. This invariably requires a larger-than-normal travel and communication budget, incentives for top management executives to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising

remembered, “as a school—boy I canvassed back doors urging housewives to buy Arbuckle’s Coffee so that I could collect the travel and history cards. . . . I had the first complete set of Arbuckle’s Coffee cards and as a collector of these... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

This is the first time in five years that the number has gone below 300. Together with the credit crunch, we are witnessing a plethora of potentially great opportunities but with a measly amount of capital to fund them. I have high hopes... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

separate customer pools. One is the pool that is coming in on the card. The other is the pool you don't know much about that is not coming in off the card. Without [data from] the card, you may not treat these customers as well as you would treat them otherwise. A... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

Albert J. Dobron, Jr. by Marguerite Rigoglioso "Been there; done that." That's what first came to Al Dobron's mind when he thought about getting involved in student government at HBS. But by his second semester, the former student leader... View Details

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

entity and everyone’s journey is different. Right at the beginning, however, I got my first look at the tangible impact to people’s lives that made my experience truly unforgettable. It was only my second week as a Naval officer when I... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

resolved it. Since past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, the board should ask candidates what concrete steps they took in their prior job to ensure that senior and lower-level managers were conducting the business with... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Maren Quezada

a job – but then, in a corporate environment, my mind was blown by all the new opportunities available to me.” Eager to be with her family, including her fiancé (now husband), Maren moved to Los Angeles where she joined Twentieth Century... View Details

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