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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
It ended up being the best revenue-generating idea Bing ever had, worth $100 million. That experience illustrates why it’s critical to adopt an “experiment with everything” approach, say Kohavi, the head of the Analysis &... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
What is missing in mainstream political debate? And what do you envision as a more effective position for the United States given current world conditions? A: American political debate is increasingly dominated by hype, exaggeration, and the demonization of our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US assets. After running a regression... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
capital potentially available for investment, as R&D and other future-oriented expenditures are already deducted in computing it. Our analysis and data can help explain why investment has been increasing and cash balances have been... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
review analysis for predicting restaurant inspection results. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/hygiene.pdf August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas By: King, Andrew, and Karim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in providing media services. The results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile annual event (the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony), a web site (improbable.com), a series of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
curiosity was peaked. “I didn’t really know anything about finance, but I wanted to learn,” he shared. “I went to an event where people were speaking a lot of jargon and I had no idea what was going on, but it put a bit of a chip on my... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
dynamic, historical account of the events that have shaped the brand over time. Using a particular type of brand biography, "the underdog," we empirically show how managers can strategically use brand biographies in brand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209044 Leading Citigroup (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-001 The (A) case describes a series of controversial events and alleged misdeeds that placed Citigroup in the public spotlight and launched... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218095-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-096 Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (B) Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (A) case.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Groman said, "we are on the verge of an era in which quantitative analysis will fundamentally change the nature of marketing, much as it changed Wall Street in recent years. The 'quants' are coming to marketing, and marketing capital... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
percent had been acquired, and 6 percent had experienced an IPO. The incidence of bankruptcy in these social purpose companies was not unlike traditional early stage companies, but the percentage (15 percent) of companies that were able to achieve a liquidity View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Kim B. Clark talked about the School's efforts in areas such as entrepreneurial studies, information technology, and the recruiting of more women students to the MBA Program. Day three's sessions offered a mix of business analysis and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
source software (OSS) over proprietary software in an attempt to reduce costs creating an unexpected demand shock for OSS. Analysis using the rest of the EU as controls via difference-in-differences and synthetic control frameworks shows... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
in the research project (team size). The current study draws upon research from scientometrics, social networks, and resource availability and use and involves an empirical analysis of a sample of 1,329 articles published between 1980 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events began to move very fast. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
groups that have been part of HBS for years. The teams, which meet only during the first year, are assigned across sections and with an eye to mixing students from a variety of backgrounds. They also encourage in-depth case analysis and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
chance to see and experience China’s modernization firsthand. The conference itself took place in a high-rise-studded financial district that didn’t exist just a decade ago. And the event put a spotlight on the School’s deepening... View Details