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Business & Environment

markets may shrink even as losses from natural disasters rise. 'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A) and (B) By: Debora L. Spar and Sarah Sasso APRIL 2025 | Teaching Material Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 324-038... View Details

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South Asia - Global

India for an 'Immersion for One' organized by the HBS India Research Center. Events in Pune, Delhi, and Kolkata highlighted her research on “The CEO Factor” examining how CEO characteristics influence corporate behavior and governance.... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

sponsors of the music app she used every day. Subsequent research in the HBS alumni database gave her two possible contacts, the CEO and Lisa Elis, a graduate of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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PLD Module 5

Summary The Program for Leadership Development (PLD) put you on the fast track to leadership. In PLD Module 5, you have the rare opportunity to build on that momentum, continue to expand your leadership skills, and earn lifelong HBS View Details

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

used? According to HBS professors Gerald Zaltman and Rohit Deshpandé, the "people factor" behind market knowledge and its transfer is at least as important as the straightforward information the research conveys about a product... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

and strategy with an emphasis on environmental management, Reinhardt recently shared his expertise with HBS alumni during reunion weekend. His talk, titled "Down to Earth: Applying Basic Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

12 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

candidate; Rachel Mural, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School; Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby, visiting scholars at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science; HBS data science research... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

whole trip, and all of these things cast a shadow on the luggage purchase. But these origins are often ignored." Zaltman believes that the emotions underlying a motivation to purchase can be unearthed by research that probes the images consumers View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

31 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

skill-building topics he covers in his new HBS course entitled “Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills” for MBA students. “There are few bright lines on these ethical and moral issues; the lines are often blurred as to what is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting

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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter... View Details

10 May 2015
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Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur

great resource. Has the alumni network impacted your job search? Absolutely – I reached out to HBS alumni in my respective city, joined the regional View Details

22 Jan 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, Erica L. Groshen & Bess Rabin

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Hiring Organizations

Partners AllWin Alpaca Real Estate Alphabroder Alpine Investors Alterra Capital Partners Altitude AI Altos Ventures Alumni Ventures Amazon Amazon Web Services - AWS Ambit Partners American Express American Industrial Partners Amex... View Details

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

to be made to appreciate the intangible aspects of a good—the associations and expectations that they attached to it. Heinz knew from selling bottled horseradish that men and women would not buy a completely new product, especially a good... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

competitors hiding in the grass. It's not over 'til it's over. Q: What are you working on now? A: Several of my current projects have to do with market design, with trying to get the rules right. With Tayfun Sonmez and Parag Pathak here at View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

10 Sep 2015
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Why We Recruit: EF Education First

service). HBS recruits typically join one of our global offices or schools in a senior role, and are then fast-tracked to even more senior leadership positions. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with... View Details

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