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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed brick-and-mortar retailers to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
bill that is unpaid for 60 days or more may be subject to collection activities. The costs associated with collecting an unpaid account will be added to the student’s outstanding debt and must be paid in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
technological outcome predicted by purely economic or organizational models. We also show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies. We thus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
they sell, the more they are helping to keep our oceans free of plastics. Because companies find success using our certified material, it creates demand for more material —and that further incentives collection in at-risk communities,... View Details
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
Imagine a place where all electricity comes from clean sources, where most cars are EVs and can be charged on almost every street, where daily hot water for homes and pools is drawn from the depths of the Earth, and where sweet tomatoes can grow even in the starkest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
structure, making data collection difficult and delaying the alarm bells that signal an oncoming crisis. Ivashina points to the fact that no one understood the scope of the exposure banks had to subprime mortgages in 2008 until it was too... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
to the institution who have a collective responsibility and ownership for what it is to become. That is how I’ve always thought about it. I saw myself as managing the process by which the senior partners thought about where we wanted to... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
company can justify the expense of assembling records. The Internet has transformed how economists interact with these datasets by lowering the cost of storing, updating, distributing, finding, and retrieving this information. Second, some economic researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
an increase in state-level unemployment benefits. Cross-sectional tests suggest greater unwinding of prior upward earnings management when other upward earnings management incentives are weak and when unemployment risk is a relatively more important determinant of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
by contrast, has been very careful about monetizing its site only gradually over time through the collection of customer data—all the while developing the idea by layering on new services such as messaging, photo sharing, and location... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
"We suffer through an extremely aged and outdated infrastructure," he said. "We will struggle with two fundamental questions: How do we collectively own something so critical to our shared prosperity? And how do we make... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
copyright law, similar to the law in the United States, lacks a clear dividing line that defines plagiarism. "The ambiguity is inherent in the product," Iyer says, making it difficult for Hollywood to collect anything in the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
stakeholder reactions and provide valuable feedback. Once metrics have been developed, data on these indicators must be collected and statistical analysis, such as multiple regression, should be performed to analyze and test the validity... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
Wildlife Federation Canada reports that Canada controls approximately 20 percent of the world’s freshwater. But WWF experts worry that a lack of accurate data collection on pollution, habitat loss, invasive species as well as climate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
taken. But the manager assignment was out of their control, and this meant that some part of the variation in breaks with the manager was also out of their control. Because I’m building off of these administrative data sets that other people have View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
(MBA 1993), host Rozanne Reszel (MBA 1986), Anu Dhir (GMP 24), Dina Mehrez (MBA 2013), Sarah Hasan (AMP 187) “This is a way to tap the collective wealth of knowledge that resides with our alumni in different age groups,” he says. “Our... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
noted that our collection of field cases on learning to become a successful functional manager had the potential to be organized into an executive's "hero's journey." This set off a process: (1) completing our field cases to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
technology was used illegally on 70-80 percent of the soybean area in southern Brazil. Under pressure from U.S. soybean growers, who were paying to license the technology, the firm implemented an innovative delivery-based collection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run... View Details