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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
finally asked me for my number.” Hannah Schott Vazzana (MBA ’02): “I have many fond memories, but one that sticks out is of my study group meeting religiously every morning in the brand-new Spangler Center. One morning while we were... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
rather than ignore or suppress them. Comparing 450 bank branches of a single organization, a large commercial bank in the northeast U.S., Ely and Thomas discovered that when work groups actively acknowledge and engage with their different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
selective increases in capacity, new approaches to managing consumption, and increased merger and acquisition activity, with attendant realization of synergies and lower costs (Jill Feblowitz), and (3) has delivered on its promise of lower prices, at least in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
relatives and partners, underground banks, informal networks) that collectively do not encourage excessive risk. To put it another way, the consumer, compared to debt-ridden state-owned enterprises or local governments, is the most sober... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
importantly, their gender. The nature of the tasks were deliberate: "Most studies that measure explicit gender attitudes find that females are believed to be worse at math tasks and better at verbal tasks than males," the paper... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
Leading with the Long View
had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership affects corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Europe - Global Activities 2021
throughout the organization and prepare its global workforce for a digitalized and highly automated era. Dalton is the protagonist featured in the 2020 HBS case study “Unilever's Response to the Future of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
“Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir.” —A case study in responsibility—in business or the military Chris Howard (MBA 2003) served in the Air Force in Afghanistan, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star; he... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
economically more valuable, in keeping with the values of fine art more generally. Q: Why did you use the Indian art market as the basis for your study on how categories evolve? A: Our interest began when we wrote a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
Given the importance of software, the lack of research on the best ways to manage its development is surprising. Many different models have been proposed since the much cited waterfall model emerged more than 30 years ago. Unfortunately, few View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
spoke English at the time. Mikitani’s move was radical and divisive. He even coined a term for the conversion: “Englishnization.” “This issue is explosive,” says HBS assistant professor Tsedal Neeley, who tracks the company’s journey in her View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can indeed be nurtured with the right incentives. Gross studied the question in the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute
Institute. "This is an exciting moment," noted HBS Dean Kim B. Clark in presenting the gift to outgoing Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and Mary Maples Dunn, who assumed the top leadership post at Radcliffe this summer. "Given the Business School's relative youth... View Details
- 14 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned at SVMP
both himself and the listener. Isabella Carbonell SVMP was a truly unforgettable experience. The faculty members, in particular, were really incredible. They made every single student in the classroom engaged in the case View Details
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Rachel Silverstein
this point in her career when Rachel saw that "an MBA could round out my finance background." When she visited the HBS campus and experienced the case study method in a classroom for the first... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
FangXiaNuo Airbnb is revolutionizing the lodging market by keeping hotel rates in check and making additional rooms available in the country's hottest travel spots during peak periods when hotel rooms often sell out and rates skyrocket, a new View Details