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Trelstad to gain an overview of the rapidly growing field of impact investing. Based on his expertise and years of... View Details

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02 Nov 2021
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Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

done in the genuine interest of the greater good.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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the President and Chief Executive Officer of HelpMeSee. Based in the U.S.... The Top Three Challenges Facing... View Details

December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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Arcos Dorados: A QSR Recovery Plan

By: Forest Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, covering Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)—faced a pandemic that was disrupting the entire consumer foodservice business in 2020. With the exclusive right to own, operate, and sub-franchise McDonald’s... View Details

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27 Mar 2017
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Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

take the opposite position of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and argue that business school is for everyone or every entrepreneur – I’m sure it is not – but instead to say that each View Details

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

hierarchy, based on the concept of social relativity, when individuals wonder how they compare to their peers. Even satisfied people get antsy when they see their peers moving... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Rethinking Brand Contamination: How Consumers Maintain Distinction When Symbolic Boundaries Are Breached"

If consumers view their brands as extensions of themselves, what happens when undesirable consumers adopt these same brands? I address this question by examining an issue that is of great concern to managers of high-status brands: the rampant spread... View Details

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Strategy Execution

By: Dennis Campbell

This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

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08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

17 Aug 2021
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Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Human error causes at least 90 percent of the 5.25 million accidents in the United States annually. Could driverless cars save lives? Yes, but it may take a long road to get... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

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FAQs - Doctoral

Selection will be based on applicant responses to the essay questions and comments in the recommendation letter that the applicant is strongly... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Q4 1.5 Building Trusted Organizations Sandra Sucher Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also... View Details

07 Apr 2022
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Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

a mobile base building game called Regent, and by taking a series of elective courses across multiple disciplines, from artificial intelligence to data science to business strategy. View Details

01 Mar 2021
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What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

relationships associated with remote work made the middle manager’s role less necessary? Can much of what middle managers do be replaced by artificial intelligence? Can companies that compete View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shah, M.D.e, Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events... View Details

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Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details

Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning

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13 Nov 2013
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Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

Porsche owners, even though they drove Porsche sports cars." Here's a sample of comments from an online conversation in one of the Porsche brand communities, which Avery... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

here”? Would the result have been the same? We can at least hypothesize several notions based on early research regarding remote work. Many talented people love it. Some View Details