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- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
consumers; 71 percent of those surveyed promised that brands and companies that placed their profits before people during the crisis would lose their trust forever. How can brands help during a crisis? Educate the public by transforming... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
Click HereHarvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke describes how his Executive Education students use LEGO blocks to design customer experiences. (Video by Executive Education) Why do some product or service experiences have enough... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
upfront take-it-or-leave-it demands run higher rejection risks than more back and forth negotiations.] The frequent failures of DAD-style negotiation have led some project advocates to seek consensus among all stakeholders. In a city like... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Divesting Harvard's Endowment
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Holly Fetter. "Divesting Harvard's Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 221-009, October 2020. (Revised February 2024.)
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect Bayesian equilibrium solution concepts and confirm that over a range of reasonable model parameters the firm's investment decision does not maximize expected profits. Surprisingly, this includes instances in which a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2008
- Supplement
The Historical Development of the Harvard Business School (B)
- 2022
- Report
The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19
By: Joseph G. Allen, Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber and Xiaodong Cao
Understanding of the most probable transmission routes and identifying the risk environments for disease spread should always be among the first critical steps in the response to future disease threats. This is one of the most vital public health lessons of the... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Buildings and Facilities; Risk and Uncertainty; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry
Allen, Joseph G., Emily Jones, Marissa V. Rainbolt, Linsey C. Marr, David Michaels, Leslie R. Cadet, Shelly L. Miller, Meira Levinson, Lidia Morawska, Richard L. Corsi, Nira R. Pollock, Yuguo Li, Alasdair P.S. Munro, Kelly Grier, Qingyan Chen, John D. Macomber, and Xiaodong Cao. "The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19." Report, Lancet COVID-19 Commission, Task Force on Safe School, Safe Work, Safe Travel, July 2022. (COVID-19 Commission.)
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
are already seeing higher prices at the pump, for one thing—and in some areas, those prices could spike even higher, says Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal. Abdelal, HBS’s Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
higher education His stand on workplace deregulation raises concerns about continued protection of women’s (and men’s) human and civil rights A reshaped Supreme Court could roll back protections to the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
is considerable variation across industries. Remote work is much more common in industries with better educated and better paid workers. Respondents in better educated and View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
pandemic) that challenge traditional economic theory centered on the so-called Phillips curve. It’s a simple economic model named after the economist who explored the positive relationship between low unemployment and higher wage rates.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2014
- Working Paper
College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea
By: Christopher Avery, Alvin E. Roth and Soohyung Lee
This paper examines non-price competition among colleges to attract highly qualified students, exploiting the South Korean setting where the national government sets rules governing applications. We identify some basic facts about the behavior of colleges before and... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Higher Education; Policy; Government and Politics; Education Industry; South Korea
Avery, Christopher, Alvin E. Roth, and Soohyung Lee. "College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20774, December 2014.
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Frederick Taylor's application of scientific methods to the study of physical labor had begun to be extended to the organization of industry as well as to spheres such as higher education and government.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high rates of property crime, a strong presence of multi-market vs. local banks, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Trinity College (D)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Nancy Bartlett. "Trinity College (D)." Harvard Business School Case 301-127, June 2001. (Revised October 2001.)
- August 1999
- Case
Graduate Center of Marlboro College, The
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Christensen, Clayton M. "Graduate Center of Marlboro College, The." Harvard Business School Case 600-007, August 1999.
- May 1977 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
Pepys College
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Pepys College." Harvard Business School Case 177-243, May 1977. (Revised May 1993.)
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- August 2009
- Case
Alex Mandl: Life Story of a Recent MBA
By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling
Keywords: Higher Education
Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Alex Mandl: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-040, August 2009.