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- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
industry had reached a steady simmer before the pandemic, hitting an estimated $61.8 billion in 2019, and is roaring back to life now that people are eager to emerge from their houses and indulge their senses in something new.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
Mela, a three-month-long Hindu festival. We estimate that the festival was attended by 61 million people, making it the largest gathering in the history of humanity. While we find strong overall evidence for both types of homophily for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
customers, and (4) becoming a supplier to a multisided platform. These ideas can be used by physical as well as online businesses. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52837 forthcoming The Laryngoscope Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
$250,000 seed-funding round. Cofounder and consultant Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996) estimates that the high-school athletics market alone is worth $2 billion in annual transactions. And the market hasn’t proved overly competitive: Other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
You Want by Tamara Erickson (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Erickson shows how members of Generation X — the 30–45 age cohort sandwiched between Boomers (who refuse to retire) and Gen Ys (with their relentless confidence and demands... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
estimating the variance of demand using dispersion among experts' forecasts and scale. We test this methodology using three datasets, demand data at item level, sales data at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
cost systems with only two parameters. One is the cost rate of supplying resource capacity (such as cost per minute for people and machine-driven processes, or cost per cubic meter per day in a warehouse). The second is an estimate of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are higher for firms that give quarterly earnings guidance and in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that (i) boards appear to react directly to managers' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
Walmart, and Etsy ate that part of Amazon’s lunch that Amazon couldn’t finish. One problem for Amazon was its inability to meet the tremendous demand surge for online services and products. Its stockouts increased and delivery times... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School who... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier Inventory Service Level on Retailer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but it expects to set the market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
HRA-Public Option combination, employers that are now compelled to continually raise out-of-pocket expenses to employees to control health care costs will no longer be caught in the middle between the complaints of employees and the View Details