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- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
negative, on American Anglo-Saxon workers in the short-to-medium time frames that we can evaluate with the H-1B program's fluctuations. We know there are plenty of individual stories about people who have lost their jobs due to the H-1B... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
management's goals and that of academics in the prospective management enterprise. Finally we review and evaluate the efforts of Fenix, an academically based applied research institute, and TruePoint, a U.S. research based consultancy, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
about investing in these companies need to understand what they bring to the table. Raman: That's very true because venture capitalists often base their evaluation of established companies on their supply chain capabilities. Shapiro:... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
deliver, and evaluate Sullivan's sales calls on two important retail buyers, Sam Cartwright of Mothercare and Anthony Pierce of John Lewis. The main case provides relevant background information about Faraway's market opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
provide business leaders with a helpful tool for evaluating the legal and ethical aspects of their decisions. Managers should first ask themselves whether the proposed action is legal. The legality of the proposed action is addressed... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Boston program and planning for its fourth class at the home office. The case should enable students to identify emerging challenges, evaluate Rock Health's funding model, debate the effectiveness of its incubation service, and assess its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
disclosure of product outcomes, such as average APRs and default rates. Requiring disclosure of such data would empower watchdogs and the market itself to evaluate bad actors. 5. Respect fiduciary duties Small business loan brokers have... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
with was in fact corrupt, and he didn't know either." When discussing the case in the classroom, some students puzzled whether Jim didn't suffer from a "savior complex." Could he really have landed in Tanzania thinking it would be simple to View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
result of neural activity. By attaching electrodes to subjects' heads and evaluating the electrical patterns of their brain waves, researchers can track the intensity of visceral responses such as anger, lust, disgust, and excitement.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools, and six small-group rooms. "The level use of experimental research at HBS has grown beyond what anyone imagined when we first built the CLER lab," says Director of Research Computing Chase Harrison. "We're constantly evaluating how... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
face. More than 1,500 MBA students at Harvard Business School have experienced these groups since 2005, as well as participants in executive education courses and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders. Evaluations about their True... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
including a full or partial sale of the firm. Students must assess the firm's strategy including the key risks and success factors associated with this industry; evaluate basic financial reports; assess the firm's past performance;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design reports whether a general theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
rates for loans in the banking system would decline to single digits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307107 Multifactor Models Harvard Business School Exercise 207-056 Students evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
evaluate leaders accordingly." Yadeed Lobo commented, " the mark of a great leader is the impression they leave on any employee." G. P. Rao added: " lack of humility and leadership appear to be inconsistent, if not... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the diversity of normative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can help forecast credit spreads and evaluate the impact of market risks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
case study of a project in a Scandinavian life insurance company where the value network, an alternate value configuration analysis tool to the established value chain, was used to represent the company's activities and identify and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving... View Details
Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum and Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Education Industry; Atlanta
Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised September 2021.)