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August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
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Grand Central Publishing

In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry

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14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

$48,000 over two years. The data around the other percentages varied greatly and were impacted by family situation. It doesn’t hurt to apply for financial aid and see what your outcome is. Pro-tip: Summer internships between your 1st and... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Georgia Institute of Technology. Rawi E. Abdelal : Awarded the 2016-2017 HBS One Harvard Faculty Fellowship. Alberto F. Cavallo : Received a National Science Foundation Trans-Atlantic Platform-Digging into Data Grant, 2017–2019. Marco E.... View Details

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Article databases: Which to choose?

regulations, and other government information. ProQuest TDM Studio Yes Yes Yes TDM Studio is a text / data mining tool Allows researchers to run... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

the school's MBA and Executive Education programs. He... Janice H. Hammond Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, Emerita Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Leading at State

cases as “The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue” and “SOFWERX: Innovation at US Special Operations Command,” as well as Karim Lakhani’s work on data analytics and AI. For Carol Perez, now acting under secretary of state for management, a key... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the lines grew long, so I needed to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

but also whether they were doing so before dinnertime, critical to an effective intervention. (The idea for the hidden sensors came from a scene in Jurassic World in which one of the characters smuggles dinosaur embryos in a jury-rigged can of Barbasol shaving cream.)... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

competence, and free up resources, which can be used to combine data bits in creative ways to add value. Relatively bulletproof operational reliability will be a key part of the price of success. Back-office or server farms, help desks,... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

directions of change on processing times. Using data from 283 hospitals, we find (1) high congestion increases a patient's hospital stay up to 28%, indicating inefficiencies from overloaded resources; (2) a patient stays up to 11.7%... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

will be crucial. In the arena of digital, data, and design, it’s clear that digital technologies and data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, are disrupting operations, business models, and businesses around... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

entrepreneurs face when launching new products. Understanding what went wrong Wu and Peterson studied timelines from 314 entrepreneurs across 722 technology hardware projects from September 2010 through June 2019, all crowdfunded through Kickstarter. For each project,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

tuition and fee revenue from the MBA program decreased 17 percent to $113 million from $136 million in fiscal 2020, as a number of students chose to take advantage of the School's deferral and leave policies during the pandemic. To put the View Details

31 Jan 2014
News

Body, Heal Thyself

reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the company's Boston office and take a look at the latest View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

Profile

Enrico Ferrari

Born and raised in a small northern Italian town, Enrico Ferrari was the first in his family to attend college. Driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and a desire to write his own destiny, Enrico moved to Berlin, where he joined an ad technology startup. Enthusiastic... View Details

Keywords: Tech

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

points, assists, fouls, and minutes played. And because players frequently change teams, it’s easy to compare how a player fares when playing for different coaches. For a paper Zhang published on the topic last year in Administrative Science Quarterly, Zhang downloaded... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active participants in the political realm,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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