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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Road Work

world where business content and financial products and services will be integrated seamlessly into the member experience—all driven by unique user data and machine learning models.”It’s a development that ties in with Camino’s mission to... View Details
Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

week, two weeks, or more? If you don’t know, find out now and work to shorten ramp-up time and increase productivity in your sales team after the crisis. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

a confluence of factors that muddy the analysis” such as “the extremely deflationary push of technology,” one that is not measured correctly because of productivity increased by the greater capabilities of the widgets we produce that go... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

indicators but also focus on current cash flow and performance of the small businesses using a broad array of traditional and nontraditional data sources. The new lenders generally fall into three categories. The first wave of tech-based... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

  Working PapersProduct Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard Abstract The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

economy and thus engendered earnings volatility. Finally, cable provided an outlet for cash flow generated by diversified media companies. During the 1960s, television broadcasting had grown into a very profitable business. 26 At the same... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is business is increasingly complex,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

the evening at the alumni mixer in Palo Alto, where HBS graduates with years of industry experience shared insights into how Silicon Valley has evolved. Conversations flowed about the changing landscape and career lessons learned along... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

acquisition and brand-building, products and services that are often free or deeply discounted, and abundant funding provided by exuberant capital markets."The problem," he says, "is that everyone understands the strategy,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Answering the Call

associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-084.pdf Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis Authors:Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

ED. We propose that the dedicated queuing system yielded shorter throughput times because it provided physicians with greater ability and incentive to manage their patients' flow through the ED from arrival to discharge. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

purpose, along with Chester Barnard’s compatible theory of business organizations as cooperative systems. Aristotle stresses the ethicality of cooperation in transactional settings; Barnard stresses the efficiencies and adaptive benefits View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley

friends and made new connections over group dinners. The excitement built into the evening at the alumni mixer in Palo Alto, where HBS graduates with years of industry experience shared insights into how Silicon Valley has evolved. Conversations View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Michael Depatie

differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

investment market. Trillions of dollars per year are expected to flow into private climate investments. But 87% of U.S. households don’t meet the criteria to invest in those private climate funds. These opportunities are closed to the... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace