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- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
Science this summer or early fall. Properties owned by Black hosts had 20 percent less demand than similar white-owned properties, hurting occupancy rates and adding to the imbalance, say Zhang View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
upfront take-it-or-leave-it demands run higher rejection risks than more back and forth negotiations.] The frequent failures of DAD-style negotiation have led some project advocates to seek consensus among...
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Support for Students with Disabilities - MBA
Financial Aid Support for Students with Disabilities Tuition Assistance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration Funds Fast Facts MBAid Stories Consumer Information RISE Career Fellowship Assistance is available at HBS for students...
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- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
suggests that the effect translates to an average of $10,000 over an average six-year-career influencer. “If consumers aren’t perceiving social influencers as trustworthy and authentic, much of their...
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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
increased at an impressive pace in the early 2000s even though Internet sales in the United States grew dramatically. Retail sales advanced from $2.87 trillion to almost $4 trillion between 1999 and 2007. However, the current recession...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
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Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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- 28 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School
to propel innovation forward. They are needed to communicate with technical employees to provide mentorship. They are needed to run highly technical companies and ensure consumers obtain much needed...
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
(the online application is available beginning April 1, 2024) Note that demand for the program (i.e., the size of the applicant pool and availability of funds) will determine the number of GO Africa...
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
demanding than what the minimalist nature of duties of forbearance initially would suggest. 2014 Working Paper Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization...
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- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
become so psychologically dependent on their captors that they will trust their captors' statements and demands more than those of the officials who are attempting to negotiate their release. We tend to cope...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...
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Energy;
Energy Sources;
Growth Management;
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Energy Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
years as a call to action for consumers to take charge and switch to a 100% electric platform as a pathway to decarbonization. Electric heat pumps are appliances that use an electrical input to move heat...
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- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
ho-hum and quickly forgotten? Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains that “the difference has less to do with catchy marketing View Details
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Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022) - MBA
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- 15 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment
- May 2010
- Case
Clayton Industries, Inc.: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Benjamin H. Barlow
Clayton Industries, a sixty-year-old U.S.-based firm in the HVAC industry (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), with nearly $1 billion in revenues, has gradually built a presence in a number of countries, including several in Europe. Peter Arnell, previously...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Organizational Structure;
Corporate Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Conflict and Resolution;
Sales;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Wisconsin;
Italy;
United Kingdom
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Benjamin H. Barlow. "Clayton Industries, Inc.: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-199, May 2010.
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Middle Skills - U.S. Competitiveness
Research Middle Skills The demand for “middle-skills” jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—remains high, yet the lack of a...
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- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
including restaurants, department stores, and drugstores, as well as to other service or consumer product firms, where the payoffs from stealing are not disproportionately high relative to potential wage...
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- 28 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Why Get an MBA?
Monitor Group, I moved on to Corporate Strategy at PepsiCo to pursue my interest in consumer goods. I loved the job. I worked with inspiring, intelligent people on big issues driving the company. The job also afforded me time to spend...
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