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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
HBS graduates are central players in creating jobs, guiding boards, and giving back to their communities. The survey demonstrates the extent to which that assumption is... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus
As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Vials of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
First Students Accepted to Deferred Admission Program
HBS has accepted 106 seniors from 52 colleges to take part in the new 2+2 Program, the School’s groundbreaking deferred MBA admission program. It is designed to reach a diverse group of high-achieving... View Details
- 14 Nov 2015
- News
A Message to HBS Alumni in France
The following message was sent earlier today to HBS alumni in France, following the tragic events of November 13. Dear HBS Alumni and Friends, The unfolding events in Paris have shocked and saddened the world. On behalf of the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
employees.” He emphasized that low turnover is a competitive advantage for Starbucks, which depends upon its frontline staff to maintain customer quality for millions of purchases each year. “People don't like View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
presentations by faculty, back in 2012, lit a thousand individual lights.” she says. “Now we want to ignite the energy of entire clubs to start doing this View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leveraging her experience to serve her community
Nancy Gray (MBA 1988) is putting her management experience to work as a pro-bono consultant and volunteer for organizations that benefit her community. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
Photo credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post Photo credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post Dry cleaning might appear to be a cut and dry business—and in many cases it is. But in the twenty years that Jon Simon (MBA 1980) has... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
appreciative of that resource. So, in 2008, I had just finished a year of working on another business and I was able to commit myself fully to TeenLife. “The training I had [at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
decision-making. “If you are able to achieve it, consensus works best because there are no losers, and people don’t feel alienated from the organization,” Whitehead explained. But he acknowledged that... View Details
- 30 Mar 2021
Industry Spotlight Series: From Automotive to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Automotive Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan View Details
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
organizations schedule time for workers to reflect on their workdays. (Previous research has shown that taking time out to reflect on work improves job performance in the long... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
She filed away what she learned and took a job working at IBM in downtown New York. “My colleagues were the sons and daughters of firemen, policemen, and this was the first white-collar job in their families,” recalls Burton. “The word... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of companies operate, investors can give helpful insight around people and culture. You can ask how to work through team challenges, enhance your company culture, or even how View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few places on earth where I could boldly... View Details
- August 2012
- Article
Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness
By: Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan
Marketers often extend product lines by offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Production; Competency and Skills; Welfare or Wellbeing; Cost vs Benefits; Perception; Customers; Performance Evaluation; Fairness; Business Ventures
Gershoff, Andrew, Ran Kivetz, and Anat Keinan. "Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness." Journal of Consumer Research 39, no. 2 (August 2012): 382–398. (Selected in 2017 for JCR Research Curations on “Behavioral Pricing”.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using an online platform to reinvent education
site. “Our annual budget is equivalent to a medium-sized high school. We’re reaching 10 million students a month today and hope to reach hundreds of millions in the not too far off future,” says Khan. “The... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
as a retiree, investors, and entrepreneurs; alumni working in a range of health care sectors, from biotech and research to pharma and the provider side of it as well. It was a chance View Details