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- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Naik’s images with household income levels for some 2,400 blocks, provided by the city online. “The incomes act as labels for the images, and then the machine learns the association between how the features relate to those incomes,” says... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
lead them in those instances where they need to meet alone, especially when they see problems that the combined chairman and CEO isn't addressing. This gives the board more power and the ability to act independently of management if they... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
greater explicitness. But the economic shock of 2008 appears to have caused many directors to reconsider what their boards had been doing and to question whether they could or should be acting differently. "I really do think it's time for... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
achieved higher profits when employees were passive (proactive). Study 2 constructively replicates these findings in the laboratory: passive (proactive) groups achieved higher performance when leaders acted high (low) in extraversion. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
Professor Joseph B. Lassiter III's research explores entrepreneurial marketing in high-potential ventures. He describes entrepreneurial marketing as a mindset and a process, one that involves gathering specific evidence that convinces a specific group of individuals to... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
comparisons based on independent performance evaluations. (Although for online purchases, as for catalog purchases, brand names help consumers infer certain aspects of quality or fit, especially for consumers making repeat purchases.) These obstacles likely will View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
highest honors bestowed on a foreigner. In 1952, while acting director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, he was in charge of controlling the trade of the Soviet-bloc countries and promoting trade in the free world. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
for others, that despite being a bit outnumbered by the rest of us, he never lost his grace or dignity.” Navasky describes his time at the School as “my own delicate balancing act — the attempt to absorb HBS know-how without succumbing to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
act of innovating — though it may well appear to be the right thing to do — can kill a company. Innovation, it seems, is not simply a reactive or random activity on the path to growth, but a strategic weapon. Wielded correctly, it can put... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
of Health Care Reform Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Raffaella Sadun, and Richard G. HamermeshHarvard Business School Case 711-403 Per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which President Obama signed in 2010, states would be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
linked to Virgin only by brand licensing agreements. Should they expand by signing new licensing agreements? Second, what kind of opportunities should he seek? Should they keep acting as a venture capital firm, nurturing new ventures as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
to that, you know, the fear, right? The fear that a lot of people have, the willingness to act courageously to take bold actions while being consistent with their values, their authentic self. That's a lot of what we explore is what's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
him from HBS to the top of Mount Fairweather. For Moore, one college friend would later say, “to hatch an idea [was] to act on it.” top – Terry Moore, October 1932. bottom – Clockwise from top left: Lamb Expedition members Dick Burdsall,... View Details
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refer to the President and Fellows of Harvard College acting through Harvard Business School Online. 2. Programs Through the Services, Harvard Business School Online offers online courses, programs or other offerings in specific areas of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
changes that would assist bank recapitalization: (1) the Fed should further modestly relax its rules under the Bank Holding Company Act to eliminate the presumption of "control" by investors at the current threshold of 5%, which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
grades in school. Thomas Yao - MBA ‘19 “You’re pretty good for an Asian kid!” As a Chinese boy growing up in Germany, I learned to deal with acts of everyday racism. I had always been a passionate soccer player and assumed that at some... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
US courts due to its status as a territory. In 2016, the US Congress had intervened, passing the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (Promesa), which established an eight-member Oversight Board to manage the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
School Note 812-016 Technology transfer from U.S. universities to industry has increased dramatically in the last 25 years. The case reviews the history of technology transfer with particular emphasis on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne