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  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this?  Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally. While I grew up playing sports, I was not the View Details
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

I. She will join Ayala Corporation, the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines, as a corporate strategy manager, where she’ll be charged with active portfolio management across its business units and... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Profile

Adriann Dolphin

Why did you choose this path at this point in time?business overview that I lacked in my... View Details
  • Web

Interviewing - Alumni

for this position? What did you like most/least about each position you held? Why did you want to attend business school? Why HBS? What courses did you like the most? Least? Why? What did you learn at HBS that will help you View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

practices in structural units that align with the logic emphasized by the practice: when adopting practices reflecting a market logic, organizations will locate them in mainline View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance

By: Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
This article describes the consumer finance sector in the US since World War II. We first define the sector in terms of the functions delivered by firms (payments, savings/investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice.) We provide time series evidence on... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Personal Finance; Business History; Innovation and Invention; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • Web

Case Services - Faculty & Research

Located in Chase Hall, Case Services is within easy walking distance to all campus facilities. Although many of its business transactions are conducted electronically for the convenience of customers, its... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

impression of each customer much the same way two people ascertain each other’s character on a first date—by interpreting certain cues to infer important traits. “Let’s say you’re on a first date and you want to figure out whether this View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

loomed large. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 910-403 GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats GTC is the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided

Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
  • Web

Research Resources - Doctoral

region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library —one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries—are available at the center of the campus. Harvard Business School Baker... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

that CEOs take home versus average employee pay is taking on added importance in 2018, as public companies in the United States are mandated for the first time to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
  • Web

Planned Giving - Alumni

Whitehead Society . What is the John C. Whitehead Society? The Society recognizes alumni and friends who make planned gifts to HBS. It was named in honor of the late John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947), a visionary View Details
  • Profile

Paul Feghali

Coming to HBS is like Going on a first date with the person you’ve had a crush on for years. What is your most memorable classroom moment? My first cold call. During a case study on a struggling shoe company, my professor started the... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

economics," says Shawn A. Cole, an associate professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. "A frequent criticism of bankers in the recent crisis is that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • December 2013 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and... View Details
Keywords: Atlanta; Test; Testing; Standardized Test; Standardized Testing; No Child Left Behind; NCLB; Cheating; Performance Pressure; Measurement; Incentives; Atlanta Public Schools; Management; Leadership; Ethics; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Risk Management; Education; Education Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
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  • 18 Feb 2019
  • Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

want to sell you one week of insurance for one product. They have thousands of employees, big budgets, and huge infrastructures, so that they can offer more or all of the activities in the customer value chain. Kost: Incumbents that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail