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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
Nagano in 1998, it was the first time that women’s hockey was offered as an Olympic sport. There’s nothing like hearing the national anthem and being on top of the podium with your teammates. That’s part of why I kept playing for so long—because I wanted to repeat that... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
George Floyd protests were the one exception to the rule. The Black Lives Matter protests created a large and sustained change in views, including a 4 percentage-point increase in liberal views. After the protests, the percentage of respondents who intended to vote for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Panel Discussion
Chief Executive Officers’ Dialogue: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Growth in Africa
By: Robert Gumede, Aziz Mebarek, Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Catherine Samba-Panza, Euvin Naidoo, Donald Kaberuka and Lerato Mbele
Gumede, Robert, Aziz Mebarek, Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Catherine Samba-Panza, Euvin Naidoo, Donald Kaberuka, and Lerato Mbele. "Chief Executive Officers' Dialogue: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Growth in Africa." African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings, African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Lisbon, Portugal, June 9–10, 2011.
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
multilateral negotiations, and tedious wordsmithing that led up to the Paris Agreement. It also examines the consequences of President Donald J. Trump’s 2017 withdrawal from the accord; the emerging leadership of the European Union and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
discrimination, where companies have various prices at the same time for different customers, depending on everything from geography to browsing history. Donald Ngwe: This has always been the best-case scenario for any seller, but it... View Details
- December 1987
- Article
A Stochastic Three-Way Unfolding Model for Asymmetric Binary Data
By: Wayne S. DeSarbo, Donald R. Lehmann, Morris B. Holbrook, William J. Havlena and Sunil Gupta
DeSarbo, Wayne S., Donald R. Lehmann, Morris B. Holbrook, William J. Havlena, and Sunil Gupta. "A Stochastic Three-Way Unfolding Model for Asymmetric Binary Data." Applied Psychological Measurement 11 (December 1987): 397–418.
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
individuals who (with a few exceptions, like the Donald Trumps of the world) prefer to fly under the radar, even while investing significant amounts of their own capital in various startups. So it’s been hard to study them, and the work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
1972), and David Wayne Brown ((Sanai Publishing)) The Change Maker: Preserving the Challenge of America by Al Checchi (MBA ’74) ((Open Road Integrated Media LLC)) Outsourcing Murder Maddi Davidson (MBA 1980) ((CreateSpace)) Marketing: A Primer for Business Executives... View Details
- October 1994 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Patricia Ostrander
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Donald J. Edwards and Antonio F. Weiss
Analyzes the career of former money manager Patricia Ostrander. Focuses on Ostrander's purchase of stock warrants issued in connection with the 1985 leveraged buyout of Storer Communications and on her later indictment and conviction for accepting unlawful... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Ethics; Capital Markets; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; United States
Koehn, Nancy F., Donald J. Edwards, and Antonio F. Weiss. "Patricia Ostrander." Harvard Business School Case 795-016, October 1994. (Revised April 1996.)
- 1997
- Working Paper
Managerial Commitments and Technological Change in the US Tire Industry
By: Donald N. Sull, Richard S. Tedlow and Richard S. Rosenbloom
- November 1989 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
American Dream, The
By: Donald A. Brown, William J. Poorvu and Richard E Crum
Explores the process of purchasing a single family house through the eyes of a young couple. The couple is trying to determine what type of home to buy as well as how to finance it. View Details
Brown, Donald A., William J. Poorvu, and Richard E Crum. "American Dream, The." Harvard Business School Case 390-089, November 1989. (Revised November 2002.)
- December 2019
- Article
The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
Keywords: Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Strategy; Price; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira. "The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 56, no. 6 (December 2019): 944–959.
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Burden Park | About
studied the developing airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
important role in galvanizing their classmates to return to campus. We have recently completed another successful and well-attended Global Alumni Conference, an annual HBS event that relies heavily on the energy and commitment of its alumni chairs. View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
companies and their shareholders. It’s no secret that companies with similar financials often pay very dissimilar amounts of tax in a given year. The same is true of individuals. One need look no further than Republican presidential nominee View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process.” Dumon wasn't disappointed. "The whole experience was life-changing," he says. "It was the passion, the drive, the business cases themselves." He cites former finance professor View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
citations of alumni bravery in battle, letters from alumni POWs, and a sobering stream of casualty reports. Pearson Hunt's first issue as editor corresponded with the end of Wallace Donham's long tenure as Dean in the summer of 1942 and the appointment of his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg