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- 02 May 2024
- News
What Campus Protesters Get Wrong About Divestment
- January 2018
- Case
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed...
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Child Care;
Childcare;
Day Care;
Daycare;
Early Childhood Education;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Selection and Staffing;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Education Industry;
United States;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- March–April 2022
- Article
School Choice in Chile
By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre
Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000...
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Early Childhood Education;
Secondary Education;
Middle School Education;
Family and Family Relationships;
Welfare;
Chile
Correa, Jose, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein, and Felipe Subiabre. "School Choice in Chile." Operations Research 70, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 1066–1087.
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
differences disappear when callers mention a benchmark price for the repair. Finally, we find that repair shops are more likely to offer a price concession if asked to do so by a woman than a man. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
http://hbr.org/2011/05/column-the-hollow-science/ar/1 Effective Managers Say the Same Thing Twice (or More) Authors:Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract How do effective managers get employees to act...
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2004
- Article
The Risky Business of Hiring Stars
With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people...
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Keywords:
Staffing;
Employee Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Employees;
Retention;
Competitive Advantage;
Human Resources;
Performance
Groysberg, Boris, Ashish Nanda, and Nitin Nohria. "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 5 (May 2004): 92–100.
- June 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity
By: Daniel Green, Boris Vallee and Sean Bracken
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-026.
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices...
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Nicole Torres
- Web
Diversity on Boards - Alumni
Highest Levels June 2013, Harvard Business Review. By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell Papers Report on Racial Inclusion in the Boardroom: A Workshop Convened by Harvard Business School's Leadership...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
Education program co-chaired by professors Lynn Paine and Boris Groysberg, which provides senior executives with the opportunity to navigate the board selection process and to explore ways to effectively...
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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
findings are integrated into the MBA curriculum through an expanded pool of case studies with female protagonists—an effort led by Boris Groysberg (DBA 2002), Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a...
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Julia Hanna
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but Boris Groysberg and Abhijit Naik point to research that shows hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or business—can quickly increase your value even if...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 21 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes
—should business leaders and policymakers do about the gender disparity? Research by Professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues shows that male and female board members have very different takes on the issue...
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