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- April 2005
- Article
Partisan Social Happiness
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country... View Details
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Partisan Social Happiness." Review of Economic Studies 72, no. 2 (April 2005): 367–93.
- 19 Nov 2024
- HBS Seminar
Christian Terwiesch, Wharton
- Web
Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Art Collection and the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection. Harvard Business School has recently acquired many of them. These artworks—by Ethiopian, Ghanaian, Namibian, Nigerian, and South African artists represented in the collections at HBS—address an array of... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
flexible production over time and broadly based across the system. It was from observations such as these that Kent and I started to form the impression that despite all the attention that had already been paid to Toyota, something... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
pharmaceutical giant one day—not creating a company from scratch. But Goble was determined to explore the wide variety of opportunities available to him in his time at HBS, so when he read about a nonprofit life sciences entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
afraid that is they rushed into actions their decisions might accidentally create harm. So they held back just at a time when the CEO most needed their help to get the organization moving swiftly into a better future. [ ] Without needed... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Mondelēz International Mondelēz International is a packaged foods company competing primarily in “snacks” around the globe. The case describes how and why the Kraft Inc. CEO, and later Mondelēz CEO, Irene Rosenfeld, created Mondelēz and how she positioned it as a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
And so, there’s a lot of uncertainty around crypto; and in times of overall financial market uncertainty, people pull away from riskier assets. At the same time, a lot of the basic technology investment and entrepreneurship in crypto is... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney
The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Small Business; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Copyright; Management; Growth and Development; Market Timing; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurial Finance; Computer Industry; Europe; Germany
Nagle, Frank, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein, and Susan Pinckney. "AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup." Harvard Business School Case 724-444, February 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
recalled, "The general provides the two things that a young scientific organization most needs–enthusiasm and appreciation. Like all the others, I started out with a hatful of ideas and a lot of long-range plans. In a couple of years, I got bogged down in detail.... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the work mindset, employees are giving themselves a chance to make an easier mental... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
rough time in the markets—baptism by fire,” she says, noting that her two intense years there were great training, as was her time at HBS. “If you can master the case method, you can do anything.... View Details
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
period of time Annual Quota 5,400 for Singaporeans 1,400 for Chileans Other Information Chileans and Singaporeans are not restricted solely to the H-1B1 category and may apply for the traditional H-1B visa status, or any other status for... View Details
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Research
The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
responsibility to engage everyone and to try to read every student and find the key to unlock how that person learns. I want to figure out how I can support them in the learning process. Lagace: What demands does it place on you? DeLong: I need to manage in real View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
industries must make tackling climate a priority, and we are all going to be the leaders that help make this change." The Start-up Competition featured pitches from six finalist teams (of 36 total applicants - more than three times the... View Details
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Working Groups Update | About
norms for engaging in respectful, productive dialogue in the classroom and beyond, with the aim of strengthening these practices and ensuring that the norms remain helpful in times of extraordinary stress. In doing so, we anticipate... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
the class toward her personal passion, precision medicine. “Health care is rife with examples like these—and such applications of big data will only expand over the coming years. I spend a lot of time thinking about questions like, How... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Health Care
Period By: Julia C. Bulman, Nicole H. Kim, Robert S. Kaplan , Sarah Schroeppel DeBacker, Olga R. Brook and Ammar Sarwar The study used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to estimate the costs to perform uterine artery embolization (UAE). Utilization View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
system united. Sibling systems have the hardest time working out who should have what leadership role and power. “The one-leader model still dominates everywhere and at all stages” With those few exceptions, the one-leader model still... View Details