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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Stein & Adi Sunderam FEB 2017 | BFFS WP #010 Fed watching has become a routine business for bond market participants and the financial press. Monetary policy announcements are analyzed word by word for clues to the central bank's future... View Details

Portrait Project

Nikita Ramanujam

the immense trauma she had faced in just nine years of life of living in a high-crime area became apparent. “Watch out for that one,” a colleague muttered. So, I did watch out. K’Lea had her tough days; I could tell she wanted to run from... View Details

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

early and listen to a podcast during a morning walk, either industry-oriented, like Matt Belloni’s The Town or Kim Masters’s The Business, or focused on content, like Sean Fennessy & Amanda Dobbins’s The Big Picture or The A24 Podcast. -I View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

05 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

forgo them is a key insight of the study, which Troncoso conducted with Mengxia Zhang, an assistant professor at Western University’s Ivey Business School. Technology continues to roil all sectors of the business world, with few areas View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate

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Data - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data The BFFS Project maintains and disseminates datasets produced by active faculty affiliated with the project. Select your area of interest by topic area below for visualizations and access to excel downloads. If you have any questions or requests for data, please... View Details

06 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

which led author Warren Bennis to say, “You are the author of your life.” Ibarra postulates two types of authentic leaders: “low self-monitors” and “high self-monitors.” Low self-monitors tend to say whatever comes to mind, whereas high self-monitors View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

05 Dec 2022
What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

orientation. Welch visited (and taught) in my General Management classroom. I both taught and watched him teach at GE’s executive development center in Crotonville, New York. I wrote and taught a case about the company. Welch, of course,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing

September 2015
Case

GovDelivery

By: Mitchell Weiss

Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off... View Details

Keywords: GovDelivery; Public Entrepreneurship; B2G; Business-to-Government; Scott Burns; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Venture Capital; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Web Services Industry; Minnesota; United States

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30 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

committed to in-person classes could no longer head to gyms and fitness studios. At the end of June 2020, Peloton had 1.09 million subscribers, 113 percent over the previous year, with people paying $39 a month for the videos they could View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

12 Apr 2022
Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

08 Aug 2022
HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

members were allowed to interact with fans on social media, and discuss the pressures of stardom. Communicate directly with fans. Hybe created a platform called Weverse, where fans could buy merchandise, watch performances, and connect... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

insight into who has succeeded in their firms historically, enabling skills-based hiring. You Might Also Like: 10 Trends to Watch in 2024 Is AI Coming for Your Job? How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

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HBS Fund - Alumni

Program Enable the School to attract the most talented students, regardless of their financial means, and to continually innovate to prepare future leaders for an ever-changing world. Watch Dean Srikant Datar briefly explain why the HBS... View Details

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The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Room The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room I had no idea there would be so much happening and so many people watching us. Theresa Layman Zajac, Relay Assembly Test Room Operator, 1976 Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room, ca. 1930... View Details

12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

modeling connective attitudes and actions. 4. Avoid recidivism. I’ve watched CEOs make efforts to connect for periods of time, but they then slip back into old, isolationist patterns. They don’t do this consciously, but if they’ve been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

products—as less credible and less trustworthy, according to research by recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate Alessia Vettese. “People used to watch celebrities on the red carpet talking about what they were wearing, or they would... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics

Portrait Project

Vi Mai

to the States when I was nine. I learned English by watching TV, reading grocery catalogs, and interpreting for my parents at doctor visits. As I grew older, I came to realize that the problem was not my English. It was the ignorance and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

celebrated its 20th anniversary. Watch a video and learn more about its place in the HBS culture. Since its inception, the Portrait Project has become an increasingly familiar aspect of HBS culture, with graduating students and their... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

outcomes have changed a lot. A couple things have happened. There's been a lot more technology that's been introduced to the sport from a performance standpoint. And those of you that watch the game, things like StatCast, which now shows... View Details

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Bob Iger, newly appointed CEO of The Walt Disney Company, proudly watched the parade go by, but concerned for the future of the global corporation, he turned to colleagues and asked, “How many characters in this parade were created by... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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