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- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average... View Details
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
the expanding practice of leveraging crowds for innovation and how crowdsourcing models have played out in different business environments. Lakhani notes, for example, that digital innovation has changed the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
build my own company.” So he did, collaborating via Skype with friends located in Israel, Sydney, and Boston and investing $5,000 in what would become EyeView. “It didn’t feel like I was taking as much of a risk because I was still a student,” he says. Initially,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
economies, and accounting/control. Thanks to the support of our colleagues in Executive Education, this five-module program will be rolled out in New York City starting in January. The reunions subcommittee was chaired by Janet Clarke (AMP 111, 1992). It analyzed View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
Alife Health off the ground. Professor Ariel Stern sponsored me to do an independent research project on the business model during the fall of my EC year, and Professor Deborah Spar became a fantastic early advisor and connection within... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
feel that asking questions is less acceptable,” Bransby says. Feeling rebuffed when they provide input. An individual’s willingness to speak up may depend on the feedback they receive when they do, says Edmondson. If others respond... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
to making better predictions. As a component of a vast array of activities, enhanced prediction will have ripple effects throughout the economy. What new functions and business models will it create? What difficult questions will it force... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
do with giving them positive feedback on their work or giving them information that they need to do their work better. The third behavior is just plain recognizing people for good performance, particularly in public settings. The fourth... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
of transparency is a tricky one. For instance, some algorithms are reaching levels of complexity that are challenging to explain, and even good explanations of models can quickly become outdated. When algorithms are implemented poorly,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
years—the more dubious the predictions become. Studying almost 70 years of voting records and results The team analyzed voting from the American National Election Study and demographic information from government sources going back to 1952. From there, the researchers:... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
gotten to the point where we want hybrid programs. But the question is, how do we design them, and I think we're not very sophisticated yet on this. SS: One model is to get the group together in a classroom initially, and then, after the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
other growth episodes end in reversion to stagnation or collapse. We create an analytical model that is capable of generating both transitory and sustained episodes of accelerated growth. The new feature is a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Porteus Abstract—We extend the Clark–Scarf serial multi-echelon inventory model to include procuring production inputs under short-term take-or-pay contracts at one or more stages. In each period, each such stage has the option to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
The company plans to pair this with input from consumer panels, distributor and retailer feedback, and most importantly, feedback from growers. Additionally, the company performs DNA sequencing on most of the varieties it tests to build... View Details
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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog
an individual investment and an investment firm level. Learning Objectives Pattern recognition: Refine and develop a framework for investing Investment process organization: expose students to the investment process beyond research, from sourcing to implementation... View Details