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- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
an individual. Rather, think of yourself as a piece of something bigger – your potential HBS class. What you do have to offer? What characteristics you bring to the table that will make your section that much better? I bet there are several things about you that no one... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
conduct research and gain access to company managements. Clusters allow companies to operate more productively than where they must do things themselves (vertical integration) or where they must outsource View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
he observes. But there may be the practical issue of money. “Although startups don’t often offer as competitive a salary as established companies,” Rahil notes, “HBS has a Summer Fellows Program that provides funding to students founding companies or working at... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is that they were taken from the accounts of customers trading in commodity futures and used in other areas of the firm; less is known about how it happened. The case describes MF Global's operating model,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
good profits are not in conflict with investing in your employees and your processes," she says. "Retail employees are on the losing end of the income-inequality gap. This case offers a great... View Details
- 2 PM – 3 PM EST, 02 Dec 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Managing Family Strife: Market Baskets Lessons about Buyouts
You'd have to have been sleeping under a rock to miss the family war and media frenzy over Market Basket, the Boston-based, family-owned supermarket chain. The confrontation between two cousins (both named Arthur Demoulas) over control of the company was finally... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52168 Rainy Day Stocks By: Gormsen, Niels, and Robin Greenwood Abstract—We study the good- and bad-times performance of equity portfolios formed on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
pricing scheme, bond markets will be central to financing climate change and other environmental interventions. So-called green bonds appeal to investors who are looking for a safe place to park their money, as well as doing a little bit... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
export-driven economy to one that is driven by consumers. Like no other company, Alibaba has succeeded in making China—a country with countless internal barriers to trade—seem like one market, where goods can be purchased, delivered,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
hypertension." Why Diabetes Is A Good Case But first, diabetes. Beaulieu chose diabetes as a context in which to spark discussion on organizational and financial systems for several reasons, she said.... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
entrepreneur, he had overseen employees in a few of his earlier jobs and ventures, and had developed some appreciation of the difference that good people—or bad people—could... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
delivering goods and services at or below contracted costs. Prospects for obtaining future contracts should be closely linked to performance on existing contracts. New contract forms; better planning,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches
Coaches Jonathan Shepherd and Lauren Murphy have good news for you: there is no reason to let Covid-19 prevent you from building professional relationships. Networking has gone virtual View Details
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
s/(s+f) is a good approximation and (ii) sharers (freeriders) obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
you are feeling pretty good about your predictions, your best option would be A, to stay in the game as an active investor. If this round is a down round, which means that your prior investment has now been substantially diluted View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
need for angioplasty. Doctors and hospitals, regulators, and policymakers need to convert to this religion because it isn't myth: it is true. The fact that cost-lowering, accessibility—enhancing disruptive... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
wafer is mapped to indicate good regions and bad regions, and this information is then used in cutting the wafer into individual components. Development groups need to be... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
translate their good intentions into action and tackle society’s most complex challenges with grace. Quintin Haynes (MBA 2023) Where is your hometown? Rockledge, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
and projector into the churches, community centers, and schools of Harlem to show residents the goods and services available on the Internet.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman