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- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Optimizing requires saying no so you can focus your time and attention on the things that are important to you.” —Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder, president, and CEO, NOWaccount Network Cynthia and Phil Black (MBA 2002) Children: Croix... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good and the 2009 Harvard Business Review article "Mergers That Stick." Investment bankers and lawyers still hold sway, and the regulators still must approve the merger of American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
2020 Adelante Conference (10/24-10/25): This year's theme is "Emerge," focusing on Latinx resilience and progress. We want to help our community emerge from the current challenges we face -- a global pandemic, inequity, social injustices,... View Details
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
are more plugged into social networks that can more easily convey information. The company has also experienced disparities by geography, with those in offices farther than the core headquarters in the US... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US steel making. Similarly, Arkadi Kuhlmann, in putting together ING Direct, a largely View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
Kennealey, who embraces the school’s emphasis on spiritual awareness, social responsibility, and academic excellence (98 percent of graduates are college-bound). He accepted the post at a challenging time. Salesianum had experienced... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
online activities) and operations (e.g., school keeps track of student assessment results and select activities and problem sets from online databases). After the first year as a full-day program, results on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training services were up over 400... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
have created an enduring record of the School's intellectual engagement in historic events. In their regular reports on social gatherings, curriculum developments, building dedications, and retirements, they have also helped to foster a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) A Network for Life “We were just a group of friends, bringing our skill sets from our jobs, to help Avi,” says Amy Yamner Jenkins (MBA 2006), who became very close to classmate Avi Kremer in the weeks after his... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
users, whenever they want it. We are beginning to see more cases that take advantage of this capability. And it's not just cases that have changed. Today all of our courses take advantage of network technology. From their computers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net... View Details