Information Preferences - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

Every seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour far too much ink on the numbers—and far too little on the information that really... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

01 Mar 2013
News

RallyPoint a Winner

in which "introducing themselves and creating a network aren't necessarily skills they've cultivated." A free-to-veterans service, RallyPoint is also good news for the Defense Department—which annually reimburses states some $1 billion for veteran unemployment... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

the opportunity to withhold information from their husbands about access to contraception. The results? Providing cheap and convenient forms of birth control led to a reduction in unwanted births only when women were given full autonomy... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA

based on your personal financial situation and your family’s financial circumstance, as determined by MBA Financial Aid. Preference goes to applicants pursuing opportunities in underserved industries and geographies. More Details If you... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Fast Answer

Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

environmental sustainability, agriculture, health and education sector. It prefers to make equity investments for-profit companies operating in the affordable education services across the world with a focus on Africa, Asia and Latin... View Details

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Takeover Defenses

Where can I find information on public companies that have instituted takeover defenses such as poison pills? Capital IQ allows you to screen for companies with takeover defenses such as poison pills, anti-greenmail provision, blank check... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

one organization that Innosight worked with preferred to talk about transforming zombies into angels. It certainly sounds more pleasant than purging or killing zombies! We do purposefully call this a zombie amnesty to highlight the fact... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

software bus and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on the financial services institutions that were among Ranadivé's first customers. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

information and financial and other intermediaries. How will the Asia-Pacific region benefit from the presence of the HBS research office? The intellectual capital created by the exchange of ideas and the study of Asian business practices... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

Barasz’s new paper, “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News,” which recently appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, documents this peculiar preference for worse-case scenarios in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

professor Alan MacCormack took on the question of future "form factors" at the 2005 Cyberposium conference at HBS on January 29th. The general consensus: It's more important for users to be able to easily move digital View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

recurring product and service preference feedback, consider vertically integrating those items that are most desired, allowing you to fine-tune and evolve the product, [as well as] developing a cost advantage for part of your kit over... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

a lot of books and articles on gender studies. I decided that I would also talk to people, research some companies, look at the data, and let that inform my path. That's the beauty of being at HBS—finding questions that are researchable... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

Cynthia says, "but preferred to be on the side of figuring out what products could be. I wanted to move from analyzing results to creating them." At HBS, Cynthia immersed herself in entrepreneurial coursework and club... View Details

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

From Das’s Desk

believes firmly in Dean Datar’s goals to strengthen the alumni community and demonstrate unequivocally that HBS is here for you throughout your life, whenever you need us and however you prefer to be engaged. I know you will enjoy getting... View Details