Publications

Educators

14 Oct 2014
News

A legacy of social and environmental respect

preserve his native Odishan culture. “Through my films, I hope to create an awareness in the world about the threat of climate change, the need... View Details

Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Capstone The CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project takes place throughout the CLIMB Program. You’ll work on tasks that allow you to collaborate with your peers and apply what you are learning in your courses... View Details

19 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application

read every application submitted, and it’s important to note that your application will be read holistically – we consider all elements of the application together to get to... View Details

01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

a personal and professional setting as you look to work on new projects with peers or enter career recruiting. Through various other team simulations, I learned the importance View Details

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

quantitative easing affected the mortgage market in the years following the financial crisis. Purchases of mortgage-backed securities had a big... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

experiencing,” says Amabile, who gathered and analyzed the data with the help of HBS research associates and doctoral students, ultimately writing View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

2024
Working Paper

Navigating Software Vulnerabilities: Eighteen Years of Evidence from Medium and Large U.S. Organizations

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein

How prevalent are severe software vulnerabilities, how fast do software users respond to the availability of secure versions, and what determines the variance in the installation distribution? Using the largest dataset ever assembled on user updates, tracking server... View Details

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Consumer Behavior

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01 Sep 2006
News

Charting the Year Ahead

perspectives and interests and will reach out extensively for alumni input and participation as planning progresses. This is an important opportunity for HBS to make a statement on the global stage about... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2020
Working Paper

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava

Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America

August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
Case

National Storage Affiliates: The REIT IPO Decision

By: Charles F. Wu, Max de la Bruyére and Gregory D. Himmel

In 2015, two years after founding National Storage Affiliates (NSA), Arlen Nordhagen and Tamara Fischer had an important decision to make. Should they proceed with NSA’s IPO? Although they had targeted to receive $15–17 a share, it was now apparent that the figure was... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry

Educators

2017
Article

Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care?

By: Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein

Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention, as well as what we call mental gaps resulting from wrong priors/worldviews, or relevant... View Details

Keywords: Information; Consumer Behavior

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27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

January 2014
Case

Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth

By: William A. Sahlman, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller and Shikhar Ghosh

The founders of Maricopa, Inc., a startup that sold proprietary hair-care products directly to salons, were preparing a board presentation to address the young company's inability to meet financial projections. While the products had caught on with customers, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Financial Condition; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Planning; Fashion Industry; Iowa

Educators

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

paid when deals are done, and the fever pitch of auctions. And guarding against these pathologies is a critical role for senior management. Gerdeman: What are the most View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

May 16, 2019
Article

To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They're Scheduled

By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel

Health inspections are an important tool to increase food safety, but there are still 48 million cases of food-borne illnesses and 128,000 hospitalizations every year in the United States. Our research finds that inspectors reported fewer health code violations as they... View Details

Keywords: Inspection; Scheduling; Food; Safety; Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement

25 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

mostly female workers tend to have less rapport—which can hamper productivity. Tamayo notes that prior research has emphasized the importance of soft skills, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage

2015
Working Paper

Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr

The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a powerful driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern... View Details

Keywords: Economic Fluctuations; Geographic Collocation; Input-output Linkages; Propagation; Shocks; Networks; Fluctuation; System Shocks; Macroeconomics

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