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- 01 Jun 2011
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Map Quest
use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,... View Details
Keywords: maps
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
Omar, Hesham (OPM 37, 2008), Adlina (OPM 46, 2015), and Adam Hafez Hesham Hafez, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Austria, launched the Paper Distribution International Group in Dubai while in his 30s, and within a decade he had grown... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a beloved figure in the Boston... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
interdisciplinary approach to examining creativity, with perspectives from the fields of sociology, psychology, economics, and history. Of 100 papers submitted for consideration, nine authors were asked to present their work, with topics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to a recent View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
through the Harvard i-lab; and 2017 MBA-MD candidate Brian Powers, who has coauthored more than 20 peer-review papers and is deputy editor of Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. In addition, the Chronicle of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
“The last quarter of the year, quite frankly was the toughest in my life,” Jones told the Sun-Times. “I’d never been in this situation before, but I knew that something needed to be done, and I don’t regret doing the right thing.” At 37, the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
all, say Professor Krishna G. Palepu and Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna, authors of "Corporate Strategies for Business Groups in Emerging Markets," a working paper slated to be published (under a different title) in the July-August... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state governments balked.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
In an interview on the nationally syndicated morning news show The Takeaway, Lerner explained. “We all love small business, but if we really want to create new jobs, we’re turning over the wrong rock.” Citing a recent research paper by... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
precious: In addition to her studies, Winters was guardian of her sister, who was 14 at the time. “I remember thinking, ‘This is absolutely crazy,’” she says. After writing a paper about Drybar and its disruption of blowouts, Winters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
their high-margin business of print classifieds with the lower-margin business of online classifieds,” Gilbert told Editor & Publisher. “If that's all they're doing with their online operations, we'd suggest that they shut them down tomorrow.” Instead, he advises, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
paper by Professor Shane Greenstein with Andre Boik of UC Davis and Jeffrey Prince of Indiana University offers surprising—and helpful—insights for advertisers or anyone else hoping to win online attention. Greenstein and his coauthors... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
opportunity to work in derivative markets like secondhand clothing. “I wrote my final paper about thredUP,” Reinhart continued. “When I went back and read it recently, it was kind of hilarious. Once you spend a year and a half working in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
Creativity is often considered a mysterious, impossible-to-harness force. But a new working paper by Assistant Professor Daniel P. Gross suggests that it can indeed be nurtured with the right incentives. Gross studied the question in the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if they’re launching because of a lack... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
time the stock price dips, you've set up a situation where managers can never lose. What kind of incentive is that?" Meulbroek asks. In fact, the assumption that underwater options dramatically weaken managerial incentives may itself be invalid, according to a working... View Details