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- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
workers; transportation subsidies might not matter to remote employees. Shrewd organizations tailor benefits to workers’ roles and demographics. An essential frontline urban worker needs different support than a remote, rural one. Audit... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
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FAQs - Alumni
page at reunions.hbs.edu . Please note: cancellation and refund requests will not be considered after the conclusion of your reunion. > What hotel should I stay in? Will transportation be provided? What are the parking options?... View Details
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Business & Environment
to best grow eBee going forward. The case chronicles the founding of eBee, provides details on its bike designed for the terrain in Africa, and its unit economics. The case then lays the ground transportation Africa complete with... View Details
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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
Events Can We Get To Where We Need To Go? America's infrastructure woes and how to fix them were front and center at the recent summit, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century , led by Rosabeth Moss... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality
In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
Malcolm P. McLean, a truck driver, fundamentally transformed the centuries-old shipping industry, an industry that had long decided that it had no incentive to change. By developing the first safe, reliable, and cost effective approach to View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its platform is two-sided, connecting... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717469-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-027 Hyperloop One This case explores the attempt of Shervin Pishevar, a prominent Silicon Valley investor, to shepherd hyperloop, a futuristic pod-in-tube View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2023-2024 MBA Student Budget Class 2024 (EC) and Class of 2025 (RC)-9 months - MBA
$16,200* ($1,800/mo) $25,200** ($2,800/mo) $31,500*** ($3,500/mo) $31,500 ($3,500/mo) Food (9 months) $6,030 ($670/mo) $8,010 ($890/mo) $9,990 ($1,110/mo) $11,090 ($1,232/mo) TRANSPORTATION (9 months) $2,240 ($249/mo) $3,900 ($433/mo)... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Do Lenders Still Discriminate? A Robust Approach for Assessing Differences in Menus
By: David Hao Zhang and Paul Willen
We use a new methodology to assess mortgage pricing discrimination by race. We make four main contributions. First, we show that existing estimates of mortgage pricing differences by race can be confounded by a "menu problem," which is the problem associated with... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; United States
Zhang, David Hao, and Paul Willen. "Do Lenders Still Discriminate? A Robust Approach for Assessing Differences in Menus." Working Paper, September 2020.
- June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Globalization; Global Strategy; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Systems; Risk Management; Time Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Supply and Industry; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Industry Structures; Operations; Product Development; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Failure; Success; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Strategy; Transportation; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Africa; Ethiopia; Asia; Indonesia; North and Central America; United States; Seattle; Chicago
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?" Harvard Business School Case 320-104, June 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 11 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Spatial Diffusion of Technology
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Podcast - Business & Environment
electric utilities optimize the integration of electric vehicles into a clean energy grid. He describes how they approach the intersection of transportation and energy as a systems problem, and he shares his advice for those interested in... View Details
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
details on its bike designed for the terrain in Africa, and its unit economics. The case then lays the ground transportation Africa complete with challenges, opportunities, and the competitive outlook. The case then goes into detail about... View Details
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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management
this program. Participants will be selected based on academic achievement, demonstrated leadership and their impact in the community around them. Who will pay for this program? HBS covers all programmatic expenses, including room and board. However, you will need to... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
transportation and aerospace sectors. Raphael H. Beresford (MBA 1954) Memorial Fellowship Established through the generosity of Ann T. Beresford in memory of her husband, Raphael H. "Ray" Beresford (MBA 1954), this fellowship honors the... View Details
Ryan W. Buell
Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details
- 23 Sep 2015
- HBS Seminar
Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
Few companies in the past few years have rocketed to success faster than Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy, which together have transformed the way we hail a cab, plan a vacation, and shop for handmade gifts, respectively. In a previous HBS Working Knowledge article, How Uber,... View Details