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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

core that provides key data and administrative services. Research Programs and Labs Six research programs addressing today’s key business and societal challenges anchor the Institute. Within each program are labs focusing on a specific area of research that View Details
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

think, what they fear, and whose esteem they want. It is not enough to have a friend or an informal relationship to supplement the lack of formal protections; you need, in addition, to understand the moral economy of a place, meaning how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

All Locations - Recruiting

75th Percentile Base $30k 35% Receiving $50k 56% Receiving All Locations 100% $150k 25th Percentile Base $175k Median $192k 75th Percentile Base $30k 53% Receiving $48k 65% Receiving Please note salary information is self-reported by... View Details
  • May 2016 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Acquiring the First Thousand Customers

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Morgan Brown
By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest growing internet startups around. These marketplaces sought to match suppliers of assets for rent, physical products or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable... View Details
Keywords: Airbnb; Etsy; Uber; Growth Hacking; Two-sided Market; Internet and the Web; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Transportation Industry; Accommodations Industry
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

informing and connecting the buyers, users and sellers of technology. One of CNET Networks' first employees and senior executives, with past responsibilities including COO, CFO and Vice Chairman, Bonnie assumed his current role in 2000.... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

combination of communicating, organizing, and evaluating. Agitators need to communicate the necessity of the social change movement; innovators need to communicate the validity of their proposed solution; and orchestrators must be able to tailor View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Natalia Rigol
My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance... View Details
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Sell-Side Analysts and Legacy Spinoffs

This paper investigates how well analysts do at evaluating spinoffs of legacy businesses vis-à-vis other spinoffs.  Analysts appear to be far more conservative in the earnings forecasts they make for legacy businesses and their parents than they are for... View Details

  • 2017
  • Chapter

Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun
We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance
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China Gambles on Modernizing Through Urbanization

By: Kristen Looney and Meg Rithmire
Contemporary discussions of urbanization and urban construction in China tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.”... View Details
Keywords: Urban Development; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; China
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  • July 2014 (Revised October 2014)
  • Supplement

McKinsey & Co. - Protecting its Reputation (B)

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
On Tuesday March 15, 2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda,... View Details
Keywords: Board; McKinsey; CONSULTING Firms; Risk; Risk Assessment; Partnerships; Insider Trading; Confidentiality; Personal Investing; Reputation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Construction Industry; United States; California
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  • May 2012
  • Article

To Zap or Not to Zap: How to Insert the Brand in TV Commercials to Minimize Avoidance

By: Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters
Huge amounts of money are spent on TV advertising. In an environment of rising per-viewer rates for advertisers and increased skipping past ads by consumers, it is necessary for advertising managers to understand the determinants of commercial avoidance. In order to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Television Entertainment; Advertising; Decisions
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  • October 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Augusta National Golf Club Controversy, The (A)

By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter
The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club's secret membership is widely believed to exclude women. When feminist advocate Martha Burk receives a mysterious list of "members," she must decide how best to use this information in her efforts to crack the glass ceiling.... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Gender; Non-Governmental Organizations; Communication Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 29 Nov 2018
  • News

The gig economy connects the skilled

  • 23 Apr 2014
  • HBS Seminar

David Lazer, Northeastern University

    Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales

    Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in spreading order flow information. We focus on large portfolio liquidations, which result in temporary drops in stock prices, and identify the brokers that intermediate these... View Details

    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    additional important challenge of marketing the restructuring to the capital market. The most obvious way to do this is to disclose useful information to investors and analysts that they can use to value the restructuring more accurately.... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • Web

    Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

    needed and then create a list of organizations and their directors. After that, you'll be ready to: Get the word out - inform your network of your interest in joining a board Leverage family/friend connections and ask them to speak on... View Details
    • Web

    Interviewing - Alumni

    interview. These notes can help you keep track of what information the recruiter has given you and help you formulate further questions. Towards the end of the conversation ask about next steps. Thank the recruiter for his/her time, and... View Details
    • 09 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 9

    a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper explores the conditions under which firms participate in this endeavor. Building on theories of how social activists inspire... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace