Status and Position - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

with content offered at positive prices, and peer-to-peer file sharing networks, which do not seek profit maximization, use p2p network architectures, and offer content for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

positions in society. Sociocultural distinctions may be race, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation. Theory And Practice According to Ely, there are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

question. One of the positive results that come from our inability to detect the shifting of a conversation is that we can move seamlessly from one topic to another semantically similar topic. In my experience, some of the most... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

Tightening the commercial banks' capital requirement from the status quo leads to safer commercial banks and more shadow banking activity in the economy. While the safety of the financial system increases,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Tedlow, a noted business historian on the HBS faculty and the MBA class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. His latest book (Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American) is a biography of Andy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

between free and a positive price. In this piece, I offer a series of specific examples of resources offered without charge, for a positive price, or for a flat fee... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints of physics... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

because it allows them to maintain the organizational status quo, say Ely and her coauthors, Florida State University Professor Irene Padavic and Erin M. Reid, associate... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

Portrait Project

Amy McGowan

of people that wants to earn an honest living is relegated to the status of working poor because of the high costs of essentials like health care, housing, and energy. Our children face unequal opportunities... View Details

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

her ultimate goal – working in her home country to make it a better place. Positioning Herself for Success After high school, Llano lived in France for a year and then studied Business Administration View Details

Keywords: Health Care

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

collect information about the status of the small-business ecosystem. They want to find practical ways to help, including by providing guidelines for navigating funding options and steering policymakers... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

important open-ended question: What does a positive outcome mean to you? "We were getting all these different answers, and very few of them mentioned survival," Feeley says. "We came to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Harvard Business School. “Even in this politicized, polarized environment that our country finds itself in, people value accuracy.” Ultimately, Jordan’s research casts doubt on the idea that reputational motivations, and in particular the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

18 Jan 2017
Blog Post

The Latino Community at HBS

Latinos in business and other positions of importance within our society for years to come. On a more granular level, LASO regularly hosts events for first year students (RCs) to check in with second year... View Details

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

Fellows. The Leadership Fellows program is designed so that recent graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive... View Details

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

and how 200+ volunteers from different firms (largely competitors) can come together to seamlessly work together in order to positively impact the society. HOW HAS YOUR MBA SKILLSET PREPARED YOU TO BE... View Details

August 2011
Case

Ockham Technologies (A): Building the Team

By: Noam Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing development work. View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology

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