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- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
further demonstrate that financing risk has the greatest impact on firms with the most real option value. Hence, the mix of projects funded and type of investors who are active varies with the level of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had taken the theory to the View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
most effectively stabilizes fluctuations under real external shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-074.pdf Patent Trolls By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
simulate counterfactuals, and develop tentative implications for pricing policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) Harvard Business School Case 407-001 This paper proposes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the HBS community is that HBS offers incredible optionality and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
listing for the internship with the National Park Service in October, and texting everyone I knew about it. “There’s no way this is a real job,” I joked with my friends. You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC investing across stages is effectively... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
go-to-market execution. The course did an excellent job of blending theory with practical applications, featuring case studies from real startup founders and marketing leaders." Chudhary Kashif Grow your organization’s new product or... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
Students in the second cohort of the new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program arrived on campus this summer. When Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022), a consultant in L.E.K.’s life sciences practice, first considered graduate school, she was disappointed to find there... View Details
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
and alumni/expert participation with its format that includes live cases, simulations, and Ted-style talks; as such, preparation is light relative to case-study preparation and includes some background reading as well as optional readings... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
social media, responses are immediate.” Also, votes allow companies to perform consumer research cheaply, generating new ideas for products or flavors, or testing consumer preference for options it might be considering. “Firms can... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is... View Details
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
ground between the options of pay or leave? I've been surprised by how little progress we have made with the standard economic model of incentives. A: Again, the answer depends on the cases. But in general, in some markets there is no way... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
predicting other people’s tastes, we tend to assume that liking one thing precludes enjoying another, dissimilar option. (Photo: iStockphoto) For example, a real estate agent might forego the opportunity to show a mid-century modern home... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
unconscious) and Type 2 (slow, deliberative, conscious). We propose, considering a wealth of real world phenomena, that this taxonomy is incomplete. Examples of these phenomena are creativity, 'sleeping on it,' etc. These phenomena seem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Liang and her team built filters that would spit out a list of the top-rated options available. Meanwhile in the evenings, to blow off steam, Liang took to her lifelong passion, which is dance. But finding new classes meant cross-checking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
reveals that "filtering" is limited. At this point, TiVo has a few real limitations: for instance, you can't watch whatever you want to watch, simply because you can't watch/record two shows that are broadcast simultaneously.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
real accelerator,” Dzodan said. Building an Internship Program As Facily began to take off in 2019 and the team was expanding, Dzodan attended his 20 year HBS reunion and found himself eager to engage more with the school. “I went to the... View Details