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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This means completing each course module and fully answering questions posed therein by the required deadline. This course also features recommended weekly deadlines to help ensure your cohort proceeds through the course at... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
What are some similarities and differences between local government and between the tech sector that we can really leverage to learn more about government services, and how to provide them more efficiently? Ingersoll: A lot of times what... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
industry is reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal - and inexpensive - chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to negotiate, we find that women avoid negotiations more often than men.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
where the independent directors based their assessments of him on direct, private conversations with company executives at multiple levels of management. (He detailed the process in a 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "Evaluating the CEO.") He suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
similar to long-maturity fixed-rate debt. If the pension fund enters into an equity asset swap in which it pays the total return on a standard index of the stock market (e.g., S&P 500) and receives in return a fixed rate of interest,... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
management systems and practices that might work well in one country but can be disastrous in another. Q: What are some of the most important similarities and differences you found in comparing British and Dutch business history? How do... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
leadership.” Be it in Washington’s poorer neighborhoods or Africa’s sprawling urban settlements — indeed, in struggling societies around the globe — America sees similarities and at least one constant: a crippling and unaddressed economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
looking at which qualities and characteristics psychologists consider to be “gendered” to see if they were stereotypically male or female. We found that if you look at the top ten characteristics, more than half were male, a small number were female, and a View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
of Maine by Colgate—to ascertain what is distinctive about the merger process and to analyze the elements critical to success. We develop suggestions about how other companies considering similar arrangements might best manage the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
Science.) The researchers used morphing software to create a visual continuum of animacy, with images of doll faces at one end of the spectrum and images of similar human faces at the other. The images in between were morphed combinations... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
find similar conflict data for India right now because India also has Maoist insurgents in many parts of the country. More than a hundred districts in India are currently affected by Maoist insurgencies, and it would be interesting to see... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Brazil and Mexico relied on very different institutional structures, both countries grew at similar rates of growth between 1890 and 1913. However, the dense and exclusive Mexican network might have ended up increasing the social and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
of five doctors believed that DTCA did not provide information in a balanced manner, and a similar proportion felt that it encouraged patients to seek treatments they did not need. Physicians as a group were more equivocal about other... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
organizations to strategies built on partnerships to accomplish both their individual and their newly shared goals. A similar incongruity seemed to exist between Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and Visa International. RIF is a national... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that first, multinational subsidiaries fared on average better than local counterfactuals with similar economic characteristics. Second, among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
with a university to develop an accredited program, the firm decided it would be better off developing the program itself, with the help of an outside consultant who had done something similar at his previous employer, in order to make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace