Market Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

over the world participating in short-term consulting projects that add value to our global company partners and help students build skills in teamwork, international business, leadership, and market analysis. G – GO: Africa. Beginning... View Details

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

climate action. They are working not just in international forums affecting policies and regulations, but are also trying to make their climate goals and impacts accessible to the public by highlighting their targeted UN sustainable development goals. Even in View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

a successful transformation in your company. Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines Author:Nava Ashraf Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Using an experimental View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

headquarters, where Skullcandy creates and markets high-quality, boldly designed headphones, earbuds, speaker docks, iPhone/iPod accessories, and clothing. What’s this first year as CEO been like? We went... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing Customers for Growth Course Number 1965 Associate Professor Eva Ascarza Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Overview: Without customers, there is no business! Managing Customers for Growth (MCG) focuses on how firms View Details

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Being Uncomfortable at HBS

novelty. If curiosity killed the cat. Then, lucky I am not a cat. Therefore, it isn’t a surprise that I enjoyed my time as a consultant, because it enabled me to jump from helping to develop a strategy for a large health system to supporting the merger of two large... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Capturing Human Capital

simultaneously," commented HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a recent interview with writer Peter K. Jacobs. Bartlett, faculty chair of the School's Executive Education Program for Global Leadership, identified the globalization of View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

orchestrating major changes in organizational design and culture. Then, in 1995, feeling she had taken "values-based management" as far as she could within a large corporate environment, Bothwick began consulting, working on a doctorate... View Details

Profile

David Gellis

Dr. Esserman gathered clinical information that helped them design better care processes. "When you work on health-care systems, you see a direct connection between the bedside and the bigger picture." Dr. Esserman encouraged... View Details

Portrait Project

Alexandra Rethore

best or not and to use her artistic talents to capture the moment. Liam is a lover – attune to the needs of others and ready to offer a sweet smile or hug to make anything better. Ciara lives in a world of her own design – refusing to be... View Details

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

focus on digital innovations but kept it organizationally separate from the paper. One of the lab's most famous creations was its Social Reader, a product designed for Facebook and the first by any major paper to experiment with directly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

marketing job at Amazon, looking to reconnect with my creative side and do something entrepreneurial. Enter my cofounders, Shahil Patel and Mayuri Bhandari. In Boston, Shahil, a first-year MBA at MIT, was fresh off of the semifinals of... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

process analysis—a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management—in a setting that didn't involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the design of a system, linked together in a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

For many entrepreneurs, the inspiration for starting a business is rooted in personal experience. An enterprise is born not just to fill a neglected market niche but a personal need as well. Such is the case with ventures created by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

Initiative at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. This episode of Skydeck Live is an excerpt from a conversation recorded at Golden’s recent Reunion, where she and I spoke about her new book, Stage [Not Age]: How to Understand and Serve People Over 60, the... View Details

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

current state of access to bank capital for small business from the best available sources. We explore both the cyclical impact of the recession on small business and access to credit and several structural issues in that impede the full recovery of bank credit View Details