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23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the CEOs of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also served as a director... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

that information pretty tight,” says Kerr, “and so I am not banking on it being available any time soon.” Whatever the eventual applications of the data, it is clear that the new database platform can offer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Monitoring and the Portability of Soft Information

Keywords: by Dennis Campbell & Maria Loumioti; Banking

2019
Working Paper

The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy

By: Doug J. Chung, Ho Kim and Reo Song

This paper explores the multiple and comprehensive effects of a digital paywall sales strategy, an increasingly common means of go-to-market for media firms. Specifically, we examine the effects of a digital paywall on a media firm’s two sources of income—subscription... View Details

Keywords: Digital Paywall; Demand Substitution; Spillover Effect; Synthetic Control; Sales; Strategy; Media; Newspapers; Publishing Industry

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20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

prior, arriving here with no contacts and no English, ready to start a new life. Seeing her would have been an emotional experience no matter what, but having been supported through chemo for the prior few months, arriving together on the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

sustaining an innovative organization? A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren't. “Conventional leadership won't get... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clean Energy Cluster (2017) Ohio Automotive Cluster (2017) Chicago Biotech Cluster (2016) San Diego Craft Beer Cluster (2016) Kentucky Bourbon Cluster (2015) New York City Apparel Cluster (2015) Pennsylvania... View Details

31 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

leader’s role should involve reducing fear among associates to a minimum. Beatriz commented that, “quite often, team members paralyze due to fear and start delegating upward New KPIs, action plans, and strategies that don’t decipher the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

pointing out the features that are designed to convert the casual player, who might otherwise be joining the crowds at the neighborhood rec center, into a club member. Getting out of the rain and not having to wait for court time just... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China, but new cases have decreased sharply since then. As of May 25, only 16 new daily cases were reported, bringing the cumulative total number... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCutlass Capital, L.P. Harvard Business School Case 805-075 David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Volunteer for work: New projects are opportunities to show your competence and your commitment. But be careful not to over-commit. Volunteer only if you have the time to follow through. 5. Claim an... View Details

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

Companies vying to fill entry-level roles should take a page from AT&T and American Express and offer aggressive advancement opportunities to workers without college degrees to help expand the talent pool, says a new report. According... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

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

investors and employees outlining the economic justifications for their pay ratios, Rouen says. For example, firms can spell out whether a simple factor like geography is creating pay diversity; clearly, an employee in New View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Faculty & Research - Race, Gender & Equity

of the post-MBA paths of Harvard Business School alumni. Study findings have been published in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Poets & Quants, and covered in other print, digital, and broadcast... View Details

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

and that’s what happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. Morrell: You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? Brooks: It’s become a lot more cognitive and brain-scientific. Neuroscience is a... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

by Mayo, accounts of the experiments in headlines from New York to Texas, and Fortune magazine’s 1946 feature article praising Mayo’s studies. In keeping with its research mission, Harvard Business School... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

gender-related themes from media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. This allowed them to trace how, when, and why the firm evolved in its focus on gender. They also created a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

debt. QE3 saw the Fed add a little more than $800 billion each of mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt. “We find that such a strategy would have allowed more households in distressed areas to lower their monthly payments and extract equity from their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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