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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
Temitope Abereoje Hometown: Ilesha, Nigeria Education: B.A., Economics, B.S., Information Systems, University of Maryland, College Park Languages: English, Yoruba Last Job: Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York Age: 25 Why HBS? “I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
cellphones, their real impact may be in the development of electric cars. Drivers could recharge their vehicles overnight by parking them on special mats in their home garages, thus avoiding the often-cited inconvenience of having to plug... View Details
- Web
Self-Catering | About
Food must be brought in by, or delivered to, the individual or group that reserved the space. Delivery must be made to, and accepted in, the HBS parking lot; vehicular access to campus will not be permitted. HBS host must supply all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
San Francisco investment firm, he and Jan now spend twenty to thirty hours a week adding to the site from a spare room in their Menlo Park home. “It’s a passion,” Cook told the San Jose Mercury News (April 8, 2003). “We’re making a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
of the house was bitter cold in the wintertime. My dad bought an electric heater for the living room so he could study there. It seems to me that some of the units must have had iceboxes, for I think I remember an ice truck periodically making the rounds. The cars... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- Article
The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests
By: Hau Chan, David C. Parkes and Karim R. Lakhani
Crowdsourcing platforms operate by offering their clients the ability to obtain cost-effective solutions for their problems through contests. The top contestants with the best solutions are rewarded, and the submitted solutions are provided to the clients. Within the... View Details
Chan, Hau, David C. Parkes, and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests." Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 19th (2020): 1795–1797.
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808107 Parks Capital-Investment in US Retail, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 208-104 Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
at managing waiting, having long since concluded that guests to its theme parks spend far more time waiting than participating in various activities. Guests are willing to wait longer when they are diverted or entertained, when they know... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
drop-off point from Western Avenue.” When it comes to undeveloped campus real estate, the parking lot adjacent to Spangler will offer a bridge to Harvard University’s planned Allston expansion. “Looking 10 or more years out,” notes... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kamoy Smalling
pushed pause on our family’s cycle of intergenerational economic hardship. She promoted us from poverty in Jamaica to working class life in New York City. Nestled in a neighborhood where the sounds of gunshots seemed to ring out from the local View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
described as a critical link to conserving the Crown of the Continent — a 10-million-acre natural region that encompasses Glacier National Park and provides refuge for some of the last grizzly bears, Canada lynx, and wolverines in the... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
contained expansion in Pakistan, exporting to nearby markets, and/or developing a global halal food brand. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512002-PDF-ENG Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development Co., Ltd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2019
- Article
Ridesharing with Driver Location Preferences
By: Duncan Rheingans-Yoo, Scott Duke Kominers, Hongyao Ma and David C. Parkes
We study revenue-optimal pricing and driver compensation in ridesharing platforms when drivers have heterogeneous preferences over locations. If a platform ignores drivers' location preferences, it may make inefficient trip dispatches; moreover, drivers may strategize... View Details
Keywords: Ridesharing; Pricing; Compensation and Benefits; Geographic Location; Market Design; Mathematical Methods
Rheingans-Yoo, Duncan, Scott Duke Kominers, Hongyao Ma, and David C. Parkes. "Ridesharing with Driver Location Preferences." Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2019): 557–564.
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers to an open spot. Daniela Rus... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
best model for humanity and nature living together” and revels in sharing the region with visitors. Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected area in the continental United States, comprising 6 million acres, of which 45 percent... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating our Student Fathers
a dad at HBS is how much time I get to spend with my family. I’m only in class for three to four hours each day and I can plan the rest of my commitments around family time. Before HBS, I never spent an hour at the park in the afternoon... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
overly dependent on downtown locations that were losing shoppers to suburban malls. Some New England rivals were opening discount stores in abandoned textile mills, which came with cheap rents and plenty of parking space. Mr. Feldberg,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
out whether I was a cultural fit for the business and vice versa. If I had a different set of values, I don’t think I’d have this job now.” Park your ego at the door. “Remember you’re a custodian rather than the rock-and-roll star at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
beauty of working in California is that I still wake up on East Coast time. I can work three or four hours before the LA day kicks in.” Happy place: Bryant Park in Manhattan. “You can take a genuine, green-grass moment that’s very... View Details