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- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
the number of unique messages a user received during the beginning of the experiment, and divided the group into thirds. Physical attributes didn’t come into play, though there could be overlap between the number of messages and attractiveness. “We basically let the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
helped her get through her own sixteen-hour ordeal. While on a weekend vacation from Save the Children in 1995, Crotty boarded one of Indonesia's chronically overcrowded ferryboats. Several hours into the trip, as night was falling, the ferry began to roll over. Crotty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
largest, most professionally managed global companies find it hard to predict the success of product launches, and can stumble badly. One estimate is that 90 percent of new fragrance launches fail. Getting the word out to consumers, and getting product through the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
for understanding the multinational firm as a set of relationships. I then apply one key element of that approach—the relationships among firms as a direct source of geopolitical outcomes—to the natural gas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm performance, comparing the likelihood of bankruptcy and employee count as well as patent count, publication count and their citations and... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
are the latest in a series of steps over the past decade to reduce financial barriers to enrolling in the two-year, full-time MBA Program. In the official announcement in August 2022, Dean Datar said, “We know that talent is much more evenly View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
economist throws support behind natural gas Harvard economist throws support behind natural gas by Michael E. Porter Feb 18, 2016 Media Mention... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
lives, in part because they didn’t understand the nature of power, but many of them learned along the way,” says Battilana. "Having once been wary of power is no guarantee that you will be immune to abusing it." Brazilian doctor Vera... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
shops. Keywords: Business Model ; Cultural Entrepreneurship ; Social Entrepreneurship ; Business History ; Business and Government Relations ; Technological Innovation ; Cash ; Culture ; Distribution Industry ; Financial Services Industry... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others, we explore the paradoxical View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Communities (BRIC) program and Flood Mitigation Assistance have $1.2 billion in EJ funding through Justice40.[59] These aim to help communities build resilience for natural disasters, and the White House has modified View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
founders or senior partners. Significantly, they are more likely to be penalized than white-owned funds when they underperform, and they are less likely to reach fundraising goals. The opaque, risky nature of private equity—whose American... View Details
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
to distributing assignments, to managing performance and promotions. Undermine stereotypes. If you're a man, model behavior that makes it safer for all men—and all people—to lean into caregiving. Take your full parental leave, for... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the ability or willingness to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
meeting to start. This happens all the time. You're just making conversation with other people at the table and the person next to them, you say, what did you do this weekend? And they say, oh, man, I went to my kid's graduation, it was awesome. The most View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
communication technologies to revolutionize emergency response and communication. Be Mixed Cristina Ros Blankfein Jennifer Ross Business Track Runner-Up Natural and zero-calorie mixer for cocktail sipping anytime, anywhere. Social... View Details
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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details