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Leo Markel
My Harvard Business School experience has shaped my goals in three different ways. First, HBS has allowed me to effectively reflect on the life I want to live and the impact I want to make. Without distancing myself from a job, I would... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally must offer... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap
caused by the pandemic. And as educators themselves, faculty members are developing new insights and using novel methods to teach students more effectively. HBS alumni are also working to mitigate the negative effects of the crisis on... View Details
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Talia Gillis
to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
also contributed $30 million to the plan. Such evidence-based methods proved very effective at buoying the nation. Its economy—though already growing at 6 percent prior to the pandemic—grew 1.3 percent during the worst of the crisis. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
after undergrad. But Gupta also spent several years at the Pratham Education Foundation, one of India’s largest educational nonprofits—work that earned him a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for social enterprise leadership at HBS. Mahajan,... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
highest-grossing box office films, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2. Clara Chow, Founder and Chair of Board, Generation Enterprise (GEN), was honored with the HBSAN Leadership Award for Social Impact. GEN’s mission is to tackle... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
by the inability to make a downward social comparison; namely, when no one is behind a queuing individual, that person is less certain that continuing to wait is worthwhile. Furthermore, this paper provides evidence that queue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the fraction of sophisticated users on platform profits. A monopoly platform's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
Digital Marketing Strategy $1,850 Next 7-week session starts August 6th Enroll Now Craft data-driven digital marketing strategies that effectively reach, convert, and retain customers in a dynamic online environment. 7 weeks 6-7 hours per... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Economic and Social Value by Michael Beer and coauthors (Harvard Business Review Press) As global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts, with their people,... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
combination of insects and microbial cell factories. Social Enterprise Track, 2023 DetoXyFi Dhananjay Goel (MPA/MBA 2023) Rishon Benjamin (MBA 2022) Rohit Karnik Leveraging waste wood and a proprietary chemical technology process to build... 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
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
must grapple with it. Khurana lays out his institutional analysis and its repercussions in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
employee, and as a result leaders hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) effective operating strategies have to create value for employees, customers and investors, so leaders ensure the achievement of the leverage and edge that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder to determine the most View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
critical issues such as racism in business technologies, inclusion in organizations, bias in legal policies, and the effect of incarceration on employment and entrepreneurship,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie