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17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

dimensions. Consistently, banks that serve customer bases with more dispersed needs receive lower satisfaction scores than banks serving customer bases with less dispersed needs. Finally, a longitudinal analysis of the deposit growth of all federally insured banks in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

fiber-optic cable from Japan to the United States. Such approvals normally take about two months. Global Crossing, whose own fiber link across the Pacific was scheduled to begin service at about the same time, petitioned the FCC to delay... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

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FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

exception to the rule that LRAP will only pay on the regular repayment schedule, as this Federal cancellation requires that participants put their loans on an "Income Based Repayment plan (IBR)" during their required service period. I'm an employee of a local, View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which... View Details

Keywords: April White

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How to Apply | Research Associates

college or university may still apply. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship. International students with OPT or OPT/STEM are eligible to apply. Harvard University... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

the Making of the United States as a Global Power Fundamentals of Negotiation Analysis Enhancing Your Personal Leadership Effectiveness One HKS Elective Course Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS... View Details

March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Pittsburgh: A Successful City?

By: Karen Mills, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck and Zeke Gillman

Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details

Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania

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18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

communicate and made abbreviations like RT (retweet) and ICYMI (in case you missed it) part of the lingo of Twitter users everywhere. What to make of all this? Senior Lecturer Chet Huber, who joined the School's General Management unit... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

market over the years. While the company continues to make envelopes and printed products, it also produces packaging for pharmacies and other e-commerce mailing needs. With 9 manufacturing facilities and more than 20 sales offices in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

in human history," while Jose Guerra (AMP:ISMP 155) reported from Mexico that the rest of the world sees the United States "as a synonym for freedom and safety" and praised the country's "unity, faith,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

diagnosis and treatment. We’re Crazy!: A Memoir About U.S. Values by Bert McLachlan (MBA 1959) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) McLachlan has written a personal guidebook for future generations that explains the confusion of values in the View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

process of globalization and international trade. But we're putting our bets on our indexes that very clearly [show] a continuation of the now ten- to twenty-year process of intensive globalization. We believe that, particularly the View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

Corporate cutbacks could stall R&D and hinder innovation, argues Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner. In this Q&A, Lerner looks over the state of the venture capital industry and its relationship with innovation. Cullen:... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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Historical Research - India

Service (FBIS) FBIS is a United States government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources... View Details

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Video Management Policy | About

state and federal laws. Access to Video In accordance with University Policy, video servers are maintained in a secure location with highly limited access control. All video images are transmitted over a secure virtual local area network.... View Details

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

are still many bureaucratic and political constraints imposed on scholars by the government that seem to work against intellectual progress. What does a Chinese entrepreneur need to succeed today, and is it different from what someone launching a business in the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

why I went to HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. I’ve always had an interest in entrepreneurial enterprises and activities that can have an impact on people’s lives, especially the poor and working poor in the United States.” View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

and come away with a deeper understanding of the greatest strengths and vulnerabilities of the nation’s democracy as well as its resilience over time. He adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the View Details

19 Nov 2014
News

The Power of Yes

and share them with the world to inform new ways of attacking these perennial problems.” Dichter’s paternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by fleeing from Poland to Shanghai and then to the United States; his father was born in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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