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  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

Virtual tours helped propel homebuying through the height of COVID-19. But now that life is back to normal, new research finds these 3D tours don’t significantly boost sale prices and may even prolong a property’s time on the market. When... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate

    Teresa M. Amabile

    Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

      Building foundations for leaders' development through the personalization of management learning.

      Many MBA and executive education courses claim to "transform" managers into leaders. This study focuses on what it takes for management education to deliver on that promise and truly foster the transformational learning that enables leadership... View Details
      • March 24, 2020
      • Article

      Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness

      By: Armin Falk and Thomas Graeber
      Does prosocial behavior promote happiness? We test this longstanding hypothesis in a behavioral experiment that extends the scope of previous research. In our Saving a Life paradigm, every participant either saved one human life in expectation by triggering a targeted... View Details
      Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Altruism; Happiness; Well-being; Spending; Behavior
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      • 2018
      • Chapter

      Time, Money, and Subjective Wellbeing

      By: Cassie Mogilner, A.V. Whillans and Michael I. Norton
      Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which people spend their time and money, the tradeoffs that... View Details
      Keywords: Money; Time Management; Happiness; Satisfaction
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      • June 2014 (Revised March 2016)
      • Case

      Relating to Peapod

      By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
      Explores the relationships formed between consumers and the Peapod consumer-direct grocery delivery service, as revealed through an ethnographic study of Boston-area Peapod shoppers conducted between the Summer of 1997 and the Fall of 1999. Three representative case... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Service Industry; Boston
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      • December 2014
      • Case

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice
      Raymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an... View Details
      Keywords: MetroMorphosis; Raymond Jetson; Advanced Leadership Initiative; ALI; Louisiana; Baton Rouge; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Louisiana; North America; United States
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      • 2014
      • Case

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice
      Raymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Louisiana; Baton Rouge
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      • 29 Jun 2022
      • Blog Post

      Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

      Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2022-23 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s ninth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik... View Details
      • 09 Mar 2023
      • Blog Post

      African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

      The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) strives to be an extended family for its members from the moment they decide to attend HBS, through the transition to second year, and beyond graduation. Here we profile two AASU members who came to HBS as joint degree... View Details
      • 29 May 2019
      • Blog Post

      Meet the HBS Class of 2019

      Each year, the MBA program interviews students about what brought them to HBS, their experience as an MBA student, and their plans to make a difference in the world. Check out the Class of 2019 bios below or click on their profiles to... View Details
      • 25 May 2021
      • Blog Post

      Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

      and inspiring confidence.” Crafting a Life You Love Beside her love for a bold lip as part of her professional persona, Dozie did not have any work experience in the beauty industry, but that didn’t stop her... View Details
      • May 2023
      • Supplement

      Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea - Video Supplement

      By: Willy C. Shih
      The setting for this case is the Sian Flowers, a company headquartered in Kitengela, Kenya that exports roses to predominantly Europe. Because cut flowers have a limited shelf life and consumers want them to retain their appearance for as long as possible, Sian or its... View Details
      Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chains; Sustainability; Sustainable Agriculture; Sustainability Reporting; Carbon Emissions; Supply Chain Management; Quality; Ship Transportation; Cost Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Kenya; Netherlands; Europe
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      • 18 Nov 2020
      • Video

      Taking it to the Street: Health Care Startups Bet on Success Despite COVID-19

      • Profile

      Brittani Rettig

      Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care
      • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 07 Dec 2023
      • Webinars: Career

      Considering Retirement

      "So you're actually thinking about retiring?!" Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
      • 22 Aug 2019
      • Blog Post

      Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

      Moving anywhere is hard – but moving halfway across the world can come with even more challenges. MBA students come to HBS from every corner of the world, some with families, and some having never left their home country or state before. Kate Grosch (MS/MBA 2020)... View Details
      • 03 Jul 2015
      • Blog Post

      What is HBS Bridges?

      just about a getting a degree is to fall way short of the incredible life experience that students have here.  I will miss it more than words can express.  View Details
      • October 2004 (Revised November 2004)
      • Case

      Mavens & Moguls: Creating a New Business Model

      By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston and Kristin Lieb
      Mavens & Moguls is a "virtual" marketing-consulting firm of approximately 40 professionals. Examines the processes by which its founder, Paige Arnof-Fenn, learns the business, builds a power network of industry experts and potential customers, and uses this expertise... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Operations; Networks; Business Model; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry
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      • 01 Aug 2016
      • Blog Post

      Reflecting on the Value of an MBA

      underlying stock will go up in the future. But you're never really sure -- because the stock price could just as easily go down. The higher the volatility of the stock, the higher the risk of extreme upside -- and extreme downside. My professor was making the analogy... View Details