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- Portrait Project
Una Kim
I will be daring. I will dare the world... to change the way it sees itself and its fringes. to learn from those who are not valued but who are valuable. to create better places by including more perspectives. to respect individuals and... View Details
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Kim Chen
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I sought to expand the way I think about my career and business and the context in which both operate. I knew HBS would help me do so by exposing me to a diverse set of classmates, topics,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
are not unequivocally a club that one should strive to join," writes Werker in his April 2013 working paper, Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences, published by the International Growth Centre at the London School of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
entertainment in advertising. In 1963, British advertising pioneer David Ogilvy, in his book Confessions of an Advertising Man, argued that ads should be all business, selling products by informing consumers rather than entertaining them.... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
across socioeconomic groups. Instead of experiencing happiness or well-being, HNAPs seek "relief in the accomplishment of tasks." Moving immediately to the next task on the list, they never savor accomplishments for long, he says. This creates a vicious cycle... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Portrait Project
PJ Kim
gifts were not always so celebrated and encouraged. When I was growing up in Louisiana, my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Grace, gave me the first of many "Bs" on my report card for "Conduct." She wrote that I had "poor table manners." I would... View Details
- Student-Profile
Byungyeon Kim
important Harvard’s worldwide research centers would be to his work. His second year research project involved a study of sales force compensation that resulted from a partnership with a Turkish pharmaceutical company made possible by an... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
information on sites such as Yelp, eBay, and TripAdvisor. The framework relies on an algorithm set up to tackle bias inherent in reviews by taking into account reviewers who vary in accuracy, stringency, and View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
advice to businesses using affiliate marketing programs. His new working paper, written with Wesley Brandi, is titled Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing. The paper offers ways to help companies make better choices and avoid being... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
widespread skepticism for the possibility of fair regulation. The power of big business is limited by the need to work with a range of powerful but diffuse societal groups. In his new book, Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's Matthew... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jean Jinsun Kim
My mother worried I would never get married because my knees were too ugly. My left knee is scarred from a running accident. My right knee is marked by a scar when I fell off a train in Morocco. They're not pretty, but they remind me of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
of language as the fulcrum by which companies transform themselves from domestic to global players. —Kim Girard is a freelance writer for HBS Working Knowledge. View Details
- Student-Profile
Do Yoon Kim
interest in the causes and effects of increasing polarization of ideologies, but not as much in business. At HBS, I hope to pursue this topic by combining ideas from computational linguistics, game theory, and organizational economics.... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Picture yourself in the 4th grade. Are you looking up at your teacher as you hand in your math worksheet? Standing on your tip toes to reach the breakfast cereal? Franci Girard (MBA 2016) wasn’t. In the 4th grade, View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Picture yourself in the 4th grade. Are you looking up at your teacher as you hand in your math worksheet? Standing on your tip toes to reach the breakfast cereal? Franci Girard (MBA 2016) wasn’t. In the 4th grade, View Details
- 12 Apr 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
process, we have weakened critical institutions and the principles and standards of judgment that ought to stand as a protection against conflicts of interest. We need solutions that are driven by a much broader conception of what went... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark