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  • 06 Feb 2025
  • News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

scheme Certified educational loans from a bank or credit union (e.g. HUECU, etc.) Applicants must not be delinquent or in default on their loans at the time of application. If in doubt, please ask HBS MBA Financial Aid before committing... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

behalf of families and (b) bank forbearance policies regarding overdrawn customers. We focus on five factors to explain the incidence of involuntary closures: personal traits, community traits, economic trends, bank policies, and credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

framework for categorizing a range of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. We take the existence of a wide range of inventory policies, including what we would term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

to supply beef markets around the world, but it faced a perfect storm of rising feed and fuel prices, a global credit crisis, and industry analysts skeptical about the company's debt load. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Toy Story

kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

take advantage of the opportunity, which is consistent with the idea that it is the mere availability of human contact that mitigates anxiety’s deleterious effects. Finally, in a field experiment conducted with a credit union’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing up and seizing opportunity. Their discussion gives insights into the last quarter century,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

such period on record. Significant financial failures returned to the marketplace in the late 1980s with the savings and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC's Bank Insurance Fund. Long... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Mission Possible

systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic expansion of the nonprofit sector both... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are segmented according to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

Mawilmada’s roommate. “As a kid, I’d get a steady dose of, ‘You need to start thinking beyond yourself. There’s so much you can do in terms of impacting society.’ As a result, I actually did grow up thinking that, and felt it was my... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

classroom, so I took a semester off. What advice do you have for others thinking about starting a family? This is advice from one of my favorite professors at HBS: Don't take too much credit or too much blame for parenting. I parent very... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

2.94; so they did learn. And they certainly gave their coaches a lot of credit for helping them both in the start-up period and throughout the extraordinary change that occurred in that period. We were witness to a sea change in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51998... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

before September 2012 to identify survey instruments used to measure teamwork and to assess their conceptual content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. We searched the ISI Web of Knowledge database and identified relevant articles using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel