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- 24 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective
countries. The first evening we had a large cohort dinner and for the rest of the evenings we all got to know each other in the dorm lounges while going over a case study or two. It wasn’t just the diversity... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
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organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
and making possible an unparalleled level of commerce. The railroads, unprecedented in size and complexity, became the model on which modern business would be based. While few dispute the transformative nature of the industry, recent scholarship has View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
interesting for researchers because the changes these countries are making are enormous for the local economy, and it is also a point in time where, in the case of India, there is very good recordkeeping and data. Even if you wanted to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
make sense for me to pursue?’” Coffman has recently co-written an article in the American Economic Review as well as two working papers, all aimed at studying men’s and women’s beliefs about their own abilities. What she found, in... View Details
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Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library
functions. The courses that students studied in the program dovetailed with their work assignments, and graduates usually found careers in fields related to their interests and field work experience. Jane Clifton completing field work for... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
Politicians, Minor analyzes whether risk preference is a good predictor of misconduct, using members of Congress as his subjects. He delved into the politicians’ financial records, determining what percentage of their portfolios was allocated to riskier investments–in... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
How Do Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition?, Campbell, fellow HBS professor Frances X. Frei and doctoral student Ryan W. Buell explore this dance between service levels, customer loyalty, and competitive strategy. The View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
See Evil or Engage in It. The paper—written with HBS colleague Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration; and Angus Hildreth, a doctoral candidate studying organizational behavior at UC Berkeley’s Haas School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the model are two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
decades of decreased funding, which the case notes peaked at 4.4 percent of the United States federal budget in 1966 and had shrunk to just 0.5 percent by 2014. To fulfill its vision for the exploration and View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
information that is most important to us (health data, for example, or cost data or comparative studies of clinical success rates or adoption placements) and then provide these data through public sources.... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing professor at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
Care contains the analytic framework for students who want to innovate the sector. It is entirely taught through current field-based case studies of health care innovations. Innovating in Health Care (Q1) is... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
A: Many of the case studies in the volume identified the issue of control at the heart of the management problems experienced by foreign firms in the United States. For considerable periods of time, European... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
existing companies-allowing students to compare the models and discuss the ethics of cloning. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813121-PDF-ENG Pemex (A): In a Free Fall? Maurer, Noel, and Aldo MusacchioHarvard Business School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne