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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Eric Sonnier
generator sets in the field and collected feedback from engineers.” He did a number of site visits “and got my elbows dirty, but I wasn’t really passionate about it.” A subsequent internship with Xerox in Rochester, New York, through the...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
they must do to reshape their businesses for the 21st century. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, presents a revolutionary model for managing and measuring...
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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog
barriers to integrating supply chains often relate to organizational issues (e.g., misaligned incentives or change management challenges) and operational execution problems (e.g., misplaced SKUs in a retail store) that fall squarely in the domain of the View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
report that the Fed’s purchases of mortgage-backed securities (instead of purely Treasuries) during QE1 resulted in an additional $600 billion of refinancing, significantly reducing interest payments for homeowners looking to refinance...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
horizons. We also demonstrate that nonlinear boosting models with feature selection, such as random forests, perform significantly better than traditional linear models. The best-performing method (random forest) yields an out-of-sample...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Statement of Activity & Cash Flows - Annual Report 2016
report their net results in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) in the United States. In addition to results for fiscal 2016, the School’s results for fiscal years 2014 and 2015...
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5-Year Data Summary - Annual Report 2016
Monthly Visitors 5,511,000 4,629,000 3,656,000 3,627,000 2,864,500 * In pursuit of greater comparability across the Harvard schools, the University has asked all the schools to report their net results in accordance with generally...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
and social impact of alumni founder activity, board service, and volunteerism. Here is a selection of results for HBS alumni. Entrepreneurship *In addition to the annual revenue generated by organizations...
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- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
in the generation of dissent. Our analysis uses economic tools, often accompanied by an antitrust perspective, to better understand the implications of government information control and social pressures upon speech and dissent....
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Dina Gerdeman
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Nikki Skovran
Africa. “I was impressed by the entrepreneurial energy there,” she says. “It was great to see that on the ground.” Her team worked with the Awethu Project, a startup incubator that exchanges business-skills training for equity stakes in new ventures. Nikki and her team...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
positions. Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model Authors:Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard, and Kari L. Granger Publication:Chap. 16 in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by Scott...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2015
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When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
innovations before bringing them to market. The general lesson for any company that depends on distribution partners: Be wary. As Zhu told the audience at Future Assembly: “Before you build your business View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. Addressing society's rapid move to digital platforms, Dean Datar said, "As you look at some of the challenges that...
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Tools | New Venture Competition
Feedback How do you test and iterate your idea? Social entrepreneurs and impact investors discuss how you can truly understand social needs and the demands of the impact economy, as well as how to skillfully and resiliently adapt models...
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- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
model has the obvious risk of generating pressure to be friendly toward issuers, especially issuers that generate a lot of ratings business (e.g., they have a lot of...
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- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain circumstances, the in-store clinic...
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- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
U.S. economy and policy. Among the major points of discussion: The importance of right-hand tail companies. Distribution of returns and the tensions between limited and general partners. Human capital: where is it coming from now, and...
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- 29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize...
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