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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
LinkedIn allowed individual members to post a profile on the LinkedIn site and then to use the site's tools to search for job opportunities; to recruit job candidates; to find suppliers, partners, and customers; and to seek out expert... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the potential of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). But over time, BRT’s potential as a first-class, environmentally sound transit mode was forgotten. It was not until the late 1990s that BRT was “rediscovered” in Curitiba, Brazil, as part of the View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
device is a part of a greater Nike+ ecosystem that has attracted over 18 million users who happily share their athletic achievements with others. Just do a search on #nikeplus on Twitter, and you will discover a Nike-related tweet every... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
evolving context of industries shapes leaders in turn. This co-evolutionary process of leadership and industry development is told through the story of the American airline industry across the 20th century. Entrepreneurs, who explored a variety of different airline... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search engine algorithm), and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
drastically reduced costs of creation, increased ease of distribution, and search devices employing "filters" and user recommendations that make all of what is available accessible and understandable to potential consumers. In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
literally took an earth-shaking event to convince Mikitani to launch Rakuten. The 1995 Hanshin earthquake, which devastated the Mikitani’s native city of Kobe, affected him deeply and personally. His family still lived in Kobe and Mikitani rushed there to View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Professor emeritus, William A. Sahlman, the conversation covered the range of leadership challenges that Mango and Bingham faced while managing both private sector and government partners on an expedited timeline, while searching for an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic Authors:Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract Using Internet traffic patterns from the Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
Year: 2023 Dad of: Penelope (3.5) + Evangeline (coming soon!) Post-HBS Industry or Current Internship: Search Fund Entrepreneurship What is it like being a parent at HBS? It’s an absolute blast! It can be hard to find balance at times,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
together for dinners and have wonderfully spirited conversations.” At HBS, Leger was involved in the Social Enterprise Club and participated in social impact consulting projects in Peru and Haiti. “My job search was a bit like looking for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new ways of grounding to sustain us... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Case 818-047 Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-022 Careem: Raising a Unicorn This case follows two ex-McKinsey consultants, Magnus Olsson and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
can we assure ethical principles are salient when employees and managers are at greatest ethics risk in the course of their work? What are effective fixes to our moral bugs? I hope that both leading researchers and young scholars will continue their View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
disclose extensive financial information. Thus Koehn and her team had to search high and low to try to piece together Winfrey's business model and understand her company's revenues, costs, and competitive advantage in the crowded,... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details