CEO Time Use - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

get "more bang for their buck" from their board members' time? The answer to all three questions is yes—if what a company expects of its board members is redefined and if the meeting process is redesigned so that the board's View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2013
HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

13 Sep 2013
HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

18 Jul 2023
Interview

Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin

This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details

Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of behavioral ethics and my experience as a co-author on a fraudulent paper to explore changes that are needed to improve research integrity. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to... View Details

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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

A factory worker uses company time and materials to fashion a lamp he will take home for personal use—an artifact called a "homer." The practice is probably illegal and clearly against written... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

and Antoinette Schoar This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We View Details

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Stock prices: current & historical

desired frequency and time period. You can download this data into Excel. Another option is to choose Chart under Price & Charts. Expand the filter to the left of where it says ‘Templates’ to add in another company, and/or... View Details

07 Jul 2020
Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

As fourth years in our final year of the JD/MBA program, we have found that one of our favorite aspects of our HBS and HLS experiences has been the JD/MBA seminar. We looked forward to Tuesday nights last year as a time to meet, learn,... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

organizations that can innovate time and again to address the challenges we face as a global community. Article Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership By: Joshua D. Margolis Expanding fiduciary duty to... View Details

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

Walmart has even crossed over with the gig economy by partnering with platforms including DoorDash, Postmates, Uber, and Lyft for package and grocery delivery. ‘You’re the CEO of Walmart’ So, is Walmart making the right investments for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

27 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

increases brand attitude, and the company is seen as having more commitment to diversifying the workforce.” US law requires companies with more than 100 employees to report their workforce’s gender, race, and ethnicity by job category to... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

product according to how valuable it is to the customer. "The case also proved useful in dealing with other complex issues related to distribution and market segmentation, two very important issues in marketing," Shapiro... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Executive Education - Global

East There are no upcoming programs at this time Participant Stories "I was in my comfort zone, using the same old management techniques, and I wanted to deepen my expertise." Zoya Sakr Co-Founder and Group... View Details

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California - Global

study writing on West Coast companies, with an emphasis on California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its opening, the CRC has helped develop more than 250 cases, which are used in all academic units within the School's... View Details

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

clustering affect the American economy as a whole? Harvard Business School’s William R. Kerr sets out to explore those questions, and their implications for US immigration policy, in a new working paper, Social Networks, Ethnicity, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

February 2025
Supplement

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell

The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Expansion; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurial Finance; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya