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26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

address more specific health conditions that can improve with behavior change. The Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award was launched by the HBSANC in 1979 to honor entrepreneurial firms that are making a transformational impact... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

Piovesan Abstract To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2017
News

The Shape of Things to Come

opportunities with social media, and we’re exploring how we might incorporate this into the curriculum. And alumni have a big impact by being case protagonists. So the curriculum naturally adapts to change.... View Details

Keywords: HBX; CORe; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

asynchronously. But I think there’s a second element of shoulder-tapping that relates to socialization and informal discussions. The model there has been to informally mix people randomly to create these water-cooler moments. I was on a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network effects impact everything from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

ability to generate profit. There is no contradiction between social impact and good profitability; in fact, profitability is central to that social impact." Eliminating,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

or purchase decision will impact their financial statements, and how the market will react given previously forecast earnings and competitor's accounting. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

intelligence” Evaluate brand communities’ impact on consumers and companies Assess the importance of each step of negotiating consumer-brand relationships 7 hrs Module 4 Managing Brands Over Time to Maximize Value Discover how to... View Details

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

our New York headquarters and at regional offices including Boston and San Francisco. Give us your elevator pitch – what is the one thing students should know about working for you?Goldman Sachs is an organization where our employees make an View Details

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details

02 Aug 2021
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Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/SDI Productions) Despite reams of material written about remote work in recent months, we know very little about the impact of remote management on performance. Perhaps it’s too soon. Until we can assess... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

the cost-plus contracts granted by approximately 14 percent in the eight quarters following the allegation, suggesting that fraud allegations have a significant impact on contract design, but not dollar volume,” write Heese and Perez... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

institutions, so that’s different too. However, while the retail investors are smaller, they are also better armed because of social media. As we’ve seen with GameStop, this allows them to mobilize in ways that make them better able to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

community-oriented initiatives. In April 2001, The Starbucks Foundation committed to a four-year, $1 million partnership with Jumpstart, a program that pairs college-age tutors with at-risk preschoolers who need help improving their language, literacy, and View Details

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

chapter identifies how social and political institutions shaped the region's market-based economies, the origins of these institutional arrangements, and the origins and impact of institutions from the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn, result in more content exchange, affecting positively iPod... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

consumer, today’s competition, and the wealth of media at your disposal. In-depth discussion highlights the field’s ever-increasing connectivity, with practical guidance on brand design and storytelling, social media marketing, branding... View Details

December 2023 (Revised July 2024)
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Boortmalt: The Master Maltster

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Lena Duchene and Emer Moloney

By May 2023, Boortmalt was the world’s leading producer of malt, with a production capacity of 3 million tonnes, 15% of global market share, and 27 malting plants across five continents. It had recently acquired a major competitor and had sustained an EBITDA growth of... View Details

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01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action

Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Deepak Malhotra Thinking outside the maze Malhotra Photographs by Webb Chappell Negotiations expert Professor Deepak Malhotra is the author of the recent international bestseller I Moved Your Cheese: For Those... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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