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Smriti Jayaraman

arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck View Details

22 Sep 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

CEO of Competitiveness.com, he brings experience in nearly 200 economic development initiatives in Europe and Latin America to his World Bank job. Comparing his previous development consulting experience in emerging economies to his work... View Details

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

sports industry accounted for around $50 billion in revenues in the United States in 2007, up from just under $35 billion in 2001. On a global scale, total revenues are expected to be nearly $100 billion this year, compared with $70... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

traumatic experiences and deep uncertainty about one's future erode or elevate the psychosocial benefits of work. Starting this winter, the team will compare how 1,000 Rohingya households at the Kutupalong camp react to one of three... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

technology to process and compare where school spending is going well," he said. Companies Work On Getting The Question Just Right In working with organizations, both DeJulio and Lipstein said a lot of work goes into crafting questions to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

Timex or Polar, the fact that you can't wear it in the water is a drawback—something that hasn't been discussed much in the media. We also don't yet know how well it will hold up to abuse in the gym. Finally, the $350 asking price is still a considerable jump View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

Quarterly Journal of Economics, HBS professor Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani of the University of Washington, St. Louis, and Ernesto Schargrodsky of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella delve into this question by comparing the beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

management gave service quality (e.g., clean bathrooms and employees greeting customers and making eye contact) a 20 percent weight in importance, as compared with 10 percent for store conditions (e.g., shelf organization, labeling, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

04-054.) Abstract We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Classroom and Field Work - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

organization. "It is our hope to attract and admit women who in background, present position, and future promise would be entirely comparable to the men," HBS Dean Stanley F. Teele wrote. 33 The Program for Management Development,... View Details

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

the unconscious thought condition compared to both conscious thought and mere distraction. As there were no differences in sequence memory for the film, it remains unclear what mechanism was responsible for this effect. These results... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

unfair to people who are just as into it, but based on how some of those communities went, I never really self-identified. So honestly I've never gone to a meet up, never sat down with another person to talk about this, never really View Details

01 Sep 2003
What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

discount in price in order to sell to an organization with a comparable journalistic reputation, the fear of a shareholder lawsuit limited the size of the discount, even in a company with a semi-public, family-controlled ownership. What,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2019
News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

single-payer health systems and the 37-page Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited banks from making risky investments. Deffarges compares that to the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank legislation, which “added immense complexity” to the law. “I was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and instead View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which... View Details