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31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

colleague Benjamin Edelman, Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts? The paper addresses an issue near and dear to academics worldwide: the relative popularity of working papers in the Social Science Research View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

MBA students at HBS through MLT (Management Leadership for Tomorrow), a nonprofit dedicated to growing the network of diverse leaders. When I visited for Admitted Students Weekend, I was welcomed by the Latino student community and walked... View Details

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery, and patient value: Access a network of health care institutions and facilities to enhance quality and coordination of care Leverage partnerships and implement outcome measurement strategies to improve care for complicated... View Details

14 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

and Hillel to bringing back alumni for speaking and networking opportunities to connecting with prospective students alongside the admissions team, we recognize the strengthening effect that interactions with the broader Jewish community... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

Kennedy’s youthful vigor overshadowed Richard Nixon’s flat pallor on American screens. Debates help candidates reach millions of voters in a single event, so candidates often prepare rigorously, hoping to gain an edge with undecided voters. And major TV View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

That collected biological material is then sent to Concentric’s network of labs to test for pathogens. “Our alerting mechanism today is: Did somebody show up with something bad in the hospital?” McKnight says. “It’s after the infection... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

2018
Working Paper

Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing.

By: Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. and Yael Grushka-Cockayne

We introduce an exponential smoothing model that a manager can use to forecast the demand of a new product or service. The model has five features that make it suitable for accurately forecasting product life cycles at scale. First, the trend in our model follows the... View Details

Keywords: New Product Development; Demand Forecasting; Product Adoption; Innovation Diffusion; Product Development; Demand and Consumers; Forecasting and Prediction; Adoption

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16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

manufactured by another firm elsewhere, and distributed by dealers everywhere—all underwritten by global cash flows. Often these networks are established without much redundancy planning or other risk-mitigation factors to counter... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Career Support - Business & Environment

Development . Events Agribusiness Seminar Networking Session An opportunity to network with alumni working in agribusiness. Open to members of the Food, Agriculture, & Water Club. (January) Career Panels... View Details

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

wireless networks and cloud technologies, advertisers and others can predict our future behavior, often before we realize what we are going to do. It’s a short step from prediction to thought control (through vehicles such as fake news... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

03 May 2024
Blog Post

From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief

beyond my reach: the title of United States of America’s Miss New Jersey. Empowered by SVMP's lessons, I approached the competition with newfound confidence. During my one-on-one interview with the judges, I seamlessly applied the leadership, communication, and View Details

10 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

certainly a starting place. It takes more than just an MBA to change careers. It takes patience, humility, perseverance, and asking for help. But having friends and professors at HBS give you advice, having the alumni network to tap... View Details

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Dusty Register

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? Skillset and network diversification after having worked in a relatively narrow career field for the past four years. I was hungry for a new challenge, especially one that would open... View Details

Keywords: CPG

Research Summary

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ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
Case

Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An

Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning

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18 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

compensation packages look so similar to each other? “Many of them stated that the design of the CEO compensation package was heavily reliant on the proposals produced by the compensation consultant” That’s the main question Susanna Gallani pursues in her working paper... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

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Engagement Opportunities - Business & Environment

opportunity for students to work together with other students from across the University's 12 Schools on sustainability projects, to connect and network with sustainability leaders (including students, faculty, and administration) and to... View Details

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

became an active member in the Tech Club, CAML (Coding, Analytics, and Machine Learning) Club as well as the VCPE (Venture Capital & Private Equity) Club. That allowed me to network with classmates with compatible interests while... View Details

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