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- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
Christian school, and attended church three times a week. Being successful in this community meant fitting the mold. Being gay was simply not an option. I didn’t know anyone who was gay, and even if I did, they would have had no reason to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
graduates indicated a vast disconnect between the School's resources and the perceptions of students and recent alumni. The committee proposes instituting targeted presentations by senior faculty to current students, the election of... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
times more than the amount required of synthetic dyes.” On the marketing side, the dairy industry pushed the ironic notion that artificial color was necessary to make butter “look like butter.” The synthetic dye manufacturers collectively... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
either mitigation or adaptation. It’s both. Businesses can and must play a key role in driving society’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Professor John Macomber, a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, has been working in this area for quite some... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
can predict the rate of readmission on the front end, you can put extra resources against that patient to minimize the risk of readmission," Quelch says. “The consumer's time is being eaten up unnecessarily doing bureaucratic work”... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
this way, maintain John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win the support your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers and obfuscators deploy time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
gradually. You build a Honda Scooter, then a Honda Civic, then a Honda Accord, and then an Acura. There is a lot of theory and research on how consumer behavior and perception changes over time. And that change in image takes 10 to15... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
education in the 21st century. The primary objectives of The Harvard Business School Campaign are to: Inspire significantly increased levels of participation and engagement among alumni Inform, identify, and engage the next generation of HBS leaders Strengthen the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
administration and is a reaction to the Chinese Communist Party’s own perception of insecurity at home and in the global economy. Increasing restrictions to transnational commerce in and with China are best understood in terms of security... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate with another person, you're playing it by ear. You may have... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
some of the difficulty you had, because of that perception initially, because you started InMobi back in 2008, and was a lot of that around the idea that companies aren’t built in India, that it’s more of a services situation? NT: Look, I... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
American company anymore." The notion in business that this is our country and we own its challenges has diminished. We believe that that corporate perception is ill-advised. It may be true that more of a company's activity is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Prospective students made the rankings cash machines for the publishers, and for better or worse, the rankings came to dominate would-be students’ perceptions of business schools. As the media rankings gained popularity, criticism of... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the questioner's intent, not on the question. Consider the whole deal. Negotiate multiple issues simultaneously, not serially. Don't negotiate just for the sake of negotiating (a pitfall for recent MBA graduates). Think through the timing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
alumni Inform, identify, and engage the next generation of HBS leaders Strengthen the perception of HBS and business in the world Engage with and support the University in new and mutually beneficial ways Raise funds for current... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the forces driving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
at a time when there are many social protests calling for more spending on education and health care. However one needs to keep things in perspective. The unemployment rate, for example, is 6 per cent. Compare that to 7.5 per cent in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
orders (parcels versus documents), time of delivery (8 a.m. versus afternoon), and other variables. There is also an unfair assumption in "fair" pricing policies: You do not determine what is fair, the customer does. An average... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
perceptions of firms' size and/or market power. Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly Authors:Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
pleasant"). In a related experiment, 29 of the participants returned two months later to repeat the same experiment, but this time they were asked to gauge whether a face could formulate a plan, feel pain, and had a mind. The results... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel