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Commencement 2018 Address | About

Springfest. The highlight of this event was a dunk tank. For those of you who have never seen a dunk tank, picture a large transparent tank of water with a person perched on a platform on the top. If you hit a target on the tank by... View Details

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

New Venture Competition were Bootcamp participants. Relationship-building became a focus of the re-imagined virtual experience, both within the participants and the curriculum. Virtual socializing events... View Details

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

a "great surprise," another wondered if Buffett was investing with his heart rather than his head (he was a paperboy as a child), and a third said it was a "feat of financial engineering." Virtually all of them... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

Digital Initiative and the HBX Live virtual classroom, the o-Lab aims to help businesses solve their problems by changing the way their company is organized, and to make that change by introducing a more theoretical and experimental... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

enterprise for virtually all of its 114-year history. Philips's saga not only points to alignment challenges but also reminds us that regionalization is rarely a triumphal march from the home base to interregional View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

program sustained momentum through virtual engagement and live-translated case studies to keep the cohort connected during the extended pause. Despite these challenges, participants successfully completed the program in October 2023,... View Details

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

learning. Instead of one teacher delivering the entire math curriculum to a class of 20-25 students, School of One utilized a technology platform that allowed several teachers to collectively oversee the learning of a larger group of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

the pandemic has taught us important lessons. Financially and operationally, the pandemic strengthened HBS as an institution. We developed and integrated new technology into the classroom, expanded our research initiatives, and created new muscles in the area of View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

expertise in case discussions in our hybrid classrooms, by meeting virtually with prospective students to answer their questions about HBS, and by assisting current students in finding internships and jobs. I’m so deeply grateful to the... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

dating platforms were designed by men, they are optimized for surfacing as many choices and pictures as possible,” she says. “My goal is not to get people to just browse hot photos and connect. My goal is really to get them into a... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

disseminate our research in new ways, including blogs, video cases, podcasts, and large-scale events in Klarman Hall. Internationalization? We inherited a powerful international platform from my predecessors that we strengthened by... View Details

27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been analyzed in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Departments | Employment

working in Information Technology Customer Base Faculty, Staff and Students Culture Within Harvard University, the HBS IT is the largest IT department on campus. Virtually every project within IT is team based. The department consists of... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Business on the Internet." Peter Granoff, whose company Virtual Vineyards sells wine exclusively over the Internet, and Steve Kirsch, president and CEO of the Internet search service InfoSeek, were among four panelists who discussed... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field experiment on the review platform Yelp.com. The experiment consists of roughly 18,000 restaurants and 24 million advertising exposures—randomly... View Details