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  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

nonprofits, and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker. Students will read 500 cases during their two years... View Details
  • Web

Our Team - Impact Investments

received her BS and BA degrees in Finance and Mathematics from the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Marcus Sander Research Associate Marcus... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

a major role in Japan's success in manufacturing-driven industries (e.g., Toyota in automobiles and Nintendo with videogames). First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1995 (Revised January 1998)
  • Case

Cybersmith

Cybersmith is a new company that has created a new retailing concept. This particular store has been reported in over 250 newspapers, and by every major American television network. Some would classify it as an on-line cafe, but management has positioned the store as... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Joint Ventures; Consumer Behavior; Product Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Retail Industry; Cambridge
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  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Flip Klijn Abstract We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Investment; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

need to be paid, if given the choice of where their money would go, most people donating money wouldn’t choose to contribute to the salary of the organization’s CEO,” says Elizabeth A. Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

be particularly sympathetic to #MeToo’s call to empower women and are the main driver of the shift to hire more women following the scandal, write Hong Luo and Laurina Zhang, the paper's authors. Luo is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

research associate at HBS. The article appears in the new issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review. “If you look at the history of any successful social change movement, you’ll see there were moments of really effective agitation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

chain, in which case that manager will likely be happy to consider language that you might propose regarding your contributions. Avoid a statement that you are leaving to pursue other interests or spend more time with family; these are... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Marco Di Maggio is Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of business administration in the... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

As Amazon’s stunning pullout from New York fades into the news archives, its potent lessons for business negotiators risk being lost. Highly promising deals in diffuse multiparty settings with many potential spoilers, like Amazon’s... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

skills critical for business. Additionally, you’re introduced to classes and career paths that you might find interesting but that you otherwise wouldn’t take on your own.   For me, I came to HBS thinking that I was more of an established... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • November 2012
  • Case

CSIRO: The Light Metals Flagship Decision

By: Willy Shih, Margaret P. Pierson and Dawn Lau
This case explores the challenge of investing in basic research as a public good. CSIRO was Australia's leading science and research agency, and it was chartered to enhance national prosperity through R&D. Its Flagships program was designed to align research interests... View Details
Keywords: R＆D; Basic Research; Government-funded Research; Public Goods; Extractive Industries; Metals; Metals Processing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Technology Adoption; Technology Platform; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Oceania; Australia
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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Leemore S. Dafny Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Doctoral Programs Faculty from the Strategy unit work with students across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found on... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

overbuilding. "The money supply coming into our business is unprecedented, but I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble," adds CBL's Lebovitz. If there's one thing that concerns... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • Research Summary

Managing Processes

David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

number of HOM deliveries prevented (from 1998 to 2012) following the publication of SART guidelines; the associated healthcare savings (2014 U.S. dollars). Result(s): A singleton live birth was estimated to cost $17,100–$24,200. A twin... View Details