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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
people are a smaller number of big decisions: buying a house, buying a car, dealing with a building contractor, investing for retirement, etc. These consumption decisions tend to be made on an irregular and infrequent basis or are new in... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
News in the News Biz
compete to ask questions of the same celebrity, politician, or entertainer is economic nonsense. Quality is not enhanced by these huge numbers of journalists assembled to hear and disseminate similar news.” View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
supporters note a number of reforms over the past two decades, including a current review of the Bank's information disclosure policy, and a series of "safeguards" on sensitive issues such as environmental impacts and effects on... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
Summing Up Questions raised in this month's column about the possibility of an era of marketing productivity based on innovative research techniques evoked a number of skeptical comments. However, in defense of such techniques, B. V.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
utilized by earlier stage investors.” There are also numerous PE firms with well-known brands that attract large numbers of students to campus events and into their applicant pool. In terms of location, students tend to focus on major... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA
how effective both could be in preparing me for business life. A “case,” for those unfamiliar, is a narrative booklet that tells the story of a business and (usually) a protagonist in that business who is facing some challenge, dilemma, or decision. Yes, there are... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
Climate Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. Large and growing numbers of business leaders acknowledge, behind closed doors—and some doors... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
without understanding technology. I admire the School's commitment to these areas," said Rod Hawes in a campus interview during his 30th Reunion in October. Hawes Hall, to be located at the northeast edge of Aldrich Hall, will house a View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
globalizes, we need to give back, and pedagogy happens to be something we’re good at,” observes HBS professor Howard Stevenson, who cochaired the program with HBS senior lecturer Mike Roberts and professor Youngme Moon. Stevenson adds that a View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
given to their competitors. Using analytical software that evaluates visual similarities between designs, Gross compared each submission with prior entries by the same designer, and related the similarity to the number and quality of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
to Angella about CAP, the challenges a modern nonprofit faces, and how a new breed of donors has shifted the sector. CAP'S CHARGE "We bring the experience of HBS alumni to nonprofits that may not otherwise be able to access those types of resources. The View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
enable you to overcome it? Finally, the fact that there are more than 100 U.S. newspapers with average daily print circulation above 100,000 meant that there were a number of large organizations experiencing this issue almost... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
disease threat materializes. For example, hospitals are the first line of defense in an outbreak. Yet the number of patients that our hospitals can manage with extreme cases is extraordinarily low. We have only four bio containment units... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
development projects, some with predictable sales results, others more risky. The former pay for the company's daily bread and butter and fund R&D on future blockbusters. Inverness Medical Innovations, for example, is following exactly this model, milking its View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
website, starting at $1,000 a month for a Shopify site. 3,188 The number of ADA website lawsuits filed in the United States in 2024 3,188 The number of ADA website lawsuits filed in the United States in 2024... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
States. I didn’t want to just take a job. I wanted to have tangible outcomes to my endeavors. Jamaica is the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean, with a relatively high number of universities. Recently, we’ve seen government... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
John P. Weyerhaeuser
The eldest son of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, John P. Weyerhaeuser continued to build the empire his father had begun. When John assumed the presidency, the family holdings numbered well over a dozen companies, ranging from sales entities to... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Redefining Work Life
Fudge Image courtesy Business Week When Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) found that her career was overtaking her life, she decided to take a sabbatical. Not the most unusual of decisions, except that her job happened to be running a $5 billion division of Kraft Foods. “Like a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
executive to New York playwright has had a number of surprises. He left the corporate world after successful stints with Coca-Cola and American Express to help take care of his ill father and never went back. Turning to his creative side,... View Details